In eleventh-century England, a passionate, purposeful Norman queen manipulates and is manipulated by events during this violent era and finds her ambitions fulfilled by the succession to the throne of her son, Edward the Confessor

Breath of Kings

Literature & Fiction

Farrington, Gene

United States

Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City

Dear Reader, You are about to embark on a journey that will take you to Jamestown, Virginia; the Chesapeake Bay; Washington, D.C.; London; Munich; Avignon and various other spots in between—in the here and now. You will also observe Jacobin London and the founding of the Jamestown colony in the 17th Century. You will get insights about what was happening from a David and a Molly from both the past and the present—contemporary David is writing a novel about that other David, the one from the 17th Century; and Molly is transcribing the diary of that other Molly, the one who is her ancestor and a member of the Jamestown colony. There is also the narrative of a Native American, Opechancanough, who was taken to Spain as a young man and educated in the ways of the white man. How is it possible that he inserts himself in the here and now to become very important to Molly and David’s narratives? Gene Farrington mashes the past and the present as only a postmodern novelist can, always conscious of the impact of words, even as he fractures time and melds characters in such intricate ways that you will be amazed at how time means nothing… how the traits and qualities of ancestors get passed along—through time, through blood. By breathing life into historical figures as well as the fictional ones, Farrington forces us to reconsider: what is history… what is fate?

The Blue Heron

Contemporary

Water Street Press

APERTURE is the story of Garnie, who lives in a dilapidated house in a small town in rural Iowa with his Auntie Rye, a tall person who reads gothic fiction to him, and has a penis. Auntie Rye is extremely rich (old Chicago money) and Garnie wants for nothing except better living conditions, indoor plumbing, and to find out what happened to his mommy and daddy. The pair's lives and choices are shaped by the Second World War, prejudice against Auntie Rye's Communist leanings, their travels to Chicago and New York, along with their weekly sojourns in a 1934 Dodge sedan across the Mississippi on the suspension span into Wisconsin, somewhat curtailed by gas rationing. They encounter the famous and the interesting in their travels, along with more than slightly unusual common folk. Through it all, Garnie, pursues his love of photographic art and his intense interest in the penis, his own and others. As Garnie passes through puberty and arrives into his teenage years filled with baseball, visions of war and death, music, Catholicism, and distinctive town folk, he also discovers who he is and what he's about. THIS IS HIS ADVENTURE, his story as told by him. But the war must end and so must his story, not with a whimper, but a bang.

Aperture

Genre Fiction

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