Answered Prayers

Literature & Fiction

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Literary

Abacus Uk

This is another novel by the author of "Foreign Affairs".

Truth About Lorin Jones

LURIE, Alison

"A remarkable and brainy work of metafiction."—Kirkus (starred review)"Experimental, extraordinary. . . . One of my favorite Australian novels."—AustralianWhen a brilliant young philosophy student begins recounting his life—from his inquisitorial father and passionate mother to his eccentric grandmother who paid for his sexual initiation with the beautiful Andrea—we are lured into a mysterious and erotic maze. But what in fact is fact, and what in fiction is fiction? Brilliantly seductive, Out of the Line of Fire was the literary sensation of the year when it was first published in 1988 and was a hit in France, Germany and Italy.

Out of the Line of Fire

Henshaw, Mark

<p>Baby Doc Duvalier is about to depart Haiti-and Father Septimus Roach is about to depart this world... Who can say why the Haitian hostile spirits -the hougains and their voodoo- dictate on one hand the end of tyranny and on the other the martyrdom of an endearing Irish madman? The visiting American ballerina Susan Lichfield senses her role in the exiled priesf s fate. Even the urbane Haitian diplomat Gi lies Lagreze bows in fear to the powers that are seizing his people... Clown or mystic, Septimus Roach hurtles towards the darkness with an uncanny grasp of his bizarre destiny... 'Power's narrative is vividly disturbing...brilliantly controlled' Daily Telegraph 'Excellent characterisation: the mysterious Gilles Lagreze is a truly spooky creation' Listener 'His comedy is darker than Graham Greene's in The Comedians, his understanding of voodoo and Haitian politics more sensuous and degenerate.. .the smells and violence and magic of Port-au-Prince are redolent in these pages' The Times Also by M.S. Power in Abacus: BRIDIE AND THE SILVER LADY A DARKNESS IN THE EYE THE KILLING OF YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN LONELY THE MAN WITHOUT HEROES</p>

Crucifixion of Septimus Roach

Maurice S Power

Contemporary

The poems of Louise Erdrich reflect what it is to be a woman, a Midwesterner and a native American. She presents that region and those people without sentimentality, and although drawing from a deep well she does not ignore the ordinary. Her novels include "Love Medicine".

Jacklight

ERDRICH, LOUISE

Border Station

Shane Connaughton

It is the late 1950s; the social milieu is London's colonies of artists and writers. Penelope's husband has died suddenly and needlessly, and she is left to face an uncertain future. She needs understanding, acceptance, the chance to express an identity of her own rather than as one half of a partnership. But these are qualities which her family and friends may not be able to supply...Elizabeth Berridge's crisp and distinctly English style of writing established her as one of the most significant novelists of the post-war years. 'She has an eye for the beauty of humble and familiar things, and a gift for expressing it in a language sharp yet delicate. She has a quiet, wicked sense of humour.' New Statesman

Rose Under Glass

Berridge, Elizabeth

Compiled with the help of access to his private papers, this is a biography of Patrick Hamilton, who was one of the most gifted and admired writers of his generation. Born in Sussex in 1904, the son of a clergyman, he published his first novel, "Craven House", in 1925, and within a few years had established a wide readership. Two plays - "Rope" (on which Hitchcock based his film) and "Gaslight" - brought him great commercial success, and his high point as a novelist was reached with "The Slaves of Solitude" and "Hangover Square". Hamilton was plagued by contradictions. Despite his genteel background, he became an expert chronicler of the English boarding-house, the twilight world of backstreet pubs and the quiet desperation of everyday life. An ideological Marxist, he reverted in later years to blimpish Toryism. Excessively and morbidly sensitive, he sought - with sometimes menacing zeal - his "ideal woman", and would then indulge with equal intensity in his taste for bondage with prostitutes. And, in keeping with one of his work's recurring themes, he drank himself to death.

Through a Glass Darkly Patrick Hamilton

Biographies & Memoirs

Nigel Jones

Arts & Literature

Fanfan

Alexandre Jardin

<p>Hobsbawm's classic history, repackaged as an Abacus History Great</p>

The Age of Empire: 1875-1914 (History Greats)

History

Hobsbawm, E J (Eric J )

Europe

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