Carry Me Down

Author	John McGahern
ISBN	0571195261

Did you read any great novels recently about a thoroughly decent man? A guy who wasn’t violent and treated everyone with humanity and tried to look on the bright side? No, me neither. That is why Ulysses is so great. Leopold Bloom is that guy, always trying the cheer up his fellow struggler, always looking...

Author	Samuel Butler
ISBN	0486434664

Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Flesh is regarded by some as the first twentieth-century novel. Samuel Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood shines an iconoclastic light on the hypocrisy of a Victorian clerical...

Author	John Niven
ISBN	0434022098

Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet.
He's writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way through Californian society, but also suffering...

Author	Joseph Conrad
ISBN	0192801708

Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first...

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Maurizio de Giovanni

La seconda avventura del commissario Ricciardi, l'uomo che possiede il dono (o la condanna) di sentire le ultime parole pronunciate da chi muore di morte violenta, quello che lui chiama "il Fatto".
Napoli, aprile 1931. Il vento di primavera si annuncia nella notte di una giornata fredda e cupa...

Author	Roxana Robinson
ISBN	0374271879

When Julia Lambert, an art professor, settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fragile relationships with her father, a repressive neurosurgeon, and her gentle mother, who is descending into Alzheimer's. But a shattering revelation intrudes: Julia's...

Author	Anita Desai
ISBN	0618074511

Set in India's Old Delhi, CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY is Anita Desai's tender, warm, and compassionate novel about family scars, the ability to forgive and forget, and the trials and tribulations of familial love. At the novel's heart are the moving relationships between the members of the Das family, who have...

Author	Andrea Camilleri
ISBN	8838913447

Nell'estate del 1995 trovai, tra vecchie carte di casa, un decreto ministeriale (che riproduco nel romanzo) per la concessione di una linea telefonica privata. Il documento presupponeva una così fitta rete di più o meno deliranti adempimenti burocratico-amministrativi da farmi venir subito...