Labrador
10 best books like Labrador (Kathryn Davis): Every Man for Himself, Map of Ireland, Sugar and Other Stories, The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories, The Goats, Cut Through the Bone, A Compass Error, Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight, Damascus, When We Were Bad
| Author | Beryl Bainbridge |
| ISBN | 0786704675 |
The story of the maiden voyage of the Titanic is a familiar one, but Bainbridge still managed an impressively fresh reimagination of the personal experiences of a rich young Anglo-American who has been adopted by the family of J.P. Morgan. His journey is somewhat picaresque - he spends most of the voyage...
| Author | Stephanie Grant |
| ISBN | 1416556222 |
In 1974, when Ann Ahern begins her junior year of high school, South Boston is in crisis -- Catholic mothers are blockading buses to keep Black children from the public schools, and teenagers are raising havoc in the streets. Ann, an outsider in her own Irish-American community, is infatuated with her...
| Author | A.S. Byatt |
| ISBN | 0679742271 |
It is always a little sad to reach the point where there is no more fiction to read by a favourite writer - let's hope she still has more to come. This was Byatt's first collection of stories, the last book she published before Possession, and although it lacks the thematic unity of most of her later story...
| Author | E.M. Forster |
| ISBN | 1905005008 |
1923. English author and critic, member of Bloomsbury group and friend of Virginia Woolf who achieved fame through his novels, which include: Room with a View, Maurice, A Passage to India, and Howard's End. The Celestial Omnibus is a collection of short-stories Forster wrote during the prewar years,...
| Author | Brock Cole |
| ISBN | 0374425752 |
Fifteenth anniversary of the classic
On the fifteenth anniversary of the publication of The Goats, Farrar, Straus and Giroux is proud to reissue a new paperback edition featuring Brock Cole’s original hardcover jacket art as well as the black-and-white pen-and-ink chapter openings.
A...
| Author | Ethel Rohan |
| ISBN | 0615400930 |
**ARC (Advance Reading Copy) review by Mel Bosworth
An entire chocolate cake. A gallon of espresso. A liter of Jameson. For the average person, it’s probably not wise to consume any of these things in one sitting, regardless of how tempting it might be. Ethel Rohan’s debut collection Cut...
| Author | Sybille Bedford |
| ISBN | 1582431590 |
In this sequel to The Favourite of the Gods, seventeen-year-old Flavia, on her own in the south of France in the late 1930s, lives with the confidence and ardor of youth. She knows her destiny-it lies at Oxford, where she will begin a great career of public service. But this view of herself is at odds with...
In this intriguing tale (not for children), storyteller extraordinaire Ursula K. Le Guin explores the magic of animals. Her animal characters -- from the irreverent trickster Coyote to the wise matriarch Grandmother Spider -- seem like people to us, just as they do to the little girl who finds herself...
| Author | Joshua Mohr |
| ISBN | 0982684894 |
"Damascus succeeds in conveying a big-hearted vision." —The Wall Street Journal
"At once gripping, lucid and fierce, Damascus is the mature effort of an artist devoted to personal growth and as such contains the glints of real gold." -San Francisco Chronicle
It's...
| Author | Charlotte Mendelson |
"'The Rubin family, everybody agrees, seems doomed to happiness'"
Claudia Rubin is in her heyday. Wife, mother, rabbi and sometime moral voice of the nation, everyone wants to be with her at her older son's glorious February wedding. Until Leo becomes a bolter and the heyday of the Rubin family...
| Author | Stacey D'Erasmo |
| ISBN | 0743400585 |
On a spring day in 1968, eight-year-old Isabel Gold prepares tea for her mother, certain she will drink it and recover from her mysterious sadness. But the tea remains untouched. Not long after, her mother takes her own life. Struggling to understand the ghost her mother left behind, Isabel grows up...
| Author | Carole Maso |
| ISBN | 1564780740 |
From her hospital bed on this, her last day on earth, she makes one final ecstatic voyage. People, places, offhand memories, and imaginary things drift in and out of Ava's consciousness and weave their way through the narrative. The voices of her three former husbands emerge: Francesco, a filmmaker...
| Author | Lord Dunsany |
| ISBN | 1406936391 |
A Dreamer's Tales: Large print by Lord Dunsany (Edward J. M. D. Plunkett) "If thou wilt go up Poltarnees and come back, as none have come, and report to us what lure or magic is in the Sea, we will pardon thy blasphemy, and thou shalt have the Princess to wife and sit among the Council of Kings." We are delighted...
| Author | Paula Fox |
| ISBN | 0393322874 |
In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she finds a life of passion and adventure, possibilities and choices. Falling in with a bohemian group of intellectuals, she discovers...
| Author | James Wood |
| ISBN | 0375752633 |
This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov,...
| Author | Patrick Gale |
| ISBN | 0349113998 |
Patrick Gale’s first novel was written as a way of subverting the recently-launched Betty Trask prize, which was then solely for romantic fiction.
It is an alternative romance in two senses: almost every love affair in it is gay, lesbian, or somehow twisted, and the narrative alternates...
| Author | Amit Chaudhuri |
| ISBN | 0749399708 |
Afternoon Raag deals with the experiences and impressions of a young Indian student of English Literature at the university of Oxford. Chaudhuri recreates the state of mind of a young man coming to terms with loneliness, nostalgia and alienation. A raag is a piece of classical Indian music which plays...
Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol
| Author | Okot p'Bitek |
| ISBN | 0435902660 |
Taking the book solely at face value, Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol are verses concerned with the disintegration of the marriage of Lawino, a rural African (Acoli) woman and Ocol, her western-educated husband. However, peeling back the cover of the words even a tiny bit reveals a woman committed...
| Author | Robert Polito |
| ISBN | 1883011493 |
This Library of America volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing, works now being recognized for the powerful literary qualities and their unique, sometimes subversive role in shaping modern American language and culture.
The...
| Author | Wyndham Lewis |
| ISBN | 0876857853 |
Tarr is a collision of everything new with everything old and it is a clash of intellectual and animal origins of man pictured in odd metaphoric strokes.
‘I am the panurgic-pessimist, drunken with the laughing-gas of the Abyss: I gaze upon squalor and idiocy, and the more I see them the more I like...
| Author | Fiona Shaw |
| ISBN | 0955647665 |
A spellbinding story of forbidden love in the 1950s, now a major movie starring Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger
A secret love which has a whole town talking ... and a small boy very worried.
Lydia Weekes is distraught at the break-up of her marriage. When her young son, Charlie, makes...
Fiction. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. The second volume of Gladman's Ravicka trilogy continues the author's profound meditation upon translation and the ephemeral. THE RAVICKIANS narrates the day-long odyssey of Luswage Amini, the Great Ravickian Novelist, who journeys through...
