Thy Tears Might Cease

Literature & Fiction

Farrell, Michael

Contemporary

Arrow Books (A Division of Random House Group)

For millions of people, the great soprano Maria Callas (1923-1977) remains the focus of such unparalleled fascination that there is still no higher praise for singers than "…the best since Callas." In this biography, Callas' career is brought brilliantly to life, from her transformation from a chubby, painfully shy girl into a magnificent, celebrated soprano, to her conflict with her larger-than-life image. Huffington makes this struggle, which was at the center of her life, also the center of the biography. Using a wealth of previously unpublished material and numerous first-hand interviews, Huffington documents Callas' interminable conflict with her mother, her deeply emotional relationship with her voice, the gradual unraveling of her first marriage, her passionate love affair with of Aristotle Onassis, her agony and humiliation at his leaving her, and her secret abortion.

Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend

Stassinopoulos Huffington, Arianna

Biographies & Memoirs

<p>Book has mild slant, cover has moderate wear. Pages have light age-toning. Ships fast from California.</p>

Lives of the Indian Princes

Dwivedi, Sharada

ALLEN, CHARLES

Set in North Africa, the stories in this volume explore the themes of sexual perversion, racial antagonism, drug hallucination, superstition, justice and revenge.

Pages From Cold Point

Paul Bowles

Short Stories & Anthologies

No, not Bloomsbury

No, Not Bloomsbury

BRADBURY, Malcolm

Breda Claffey has set her heart on returning to Kerry. For in Kerry is the Honey Spike, the 'lucky' hospital in which her child must be born. No other spike will do. But she and Martin are far from home, in the northernmost tip of Ireland - the first Southern tinkers ever to make the journey - and Kerry is a long, wearisome distance by cart. THE HONEY SPIKE evokes an Ireland which has remained unaltered for centuries. Its people live as they have always lived; putting their faith in God and in magic, in religion and superstition, but their greatest belief of all is in life itself.

The Honey Spike

Macmahon, Brian

Marise Tomelty is a child-wife who dislikes sex and is terrified of open spaces. Ralph Shilling, a dealer in pesticides, lives in the flat above the Tomeltys'. One day, Marise's traveling-salesman husband casually mentions that he recognizes Ralph as John Brown, the suspect who, for lack of evidence, was acquitted in an actrocious double murder. Nevertheless, Marise encourages Ralph's attentions, intoxicated by a heady mix of passion and fear. In this shrewdly-observed novel, A.L. Barker explores the tug between body and soul, life and death, truth and fantasy.

John Brown`s Body

Baker, A.L.

The Last of the Crazy People

FINDLEY, Timothy

The Butterfly Plague

Reminiscent of Oscar and Lucinda, this is the story of an imaginative child raised in the intolerant atmosphere of New Zealand's Christian Brethren. Elsdon Bird is an affectionate and imaginative child raised in a family steeped in the religious intolerance of the Christian Brethren sect. When his father is fired from his city workplace for proselytizing and trying to "save" his coworkers, the Birds are forced to leave Wellington and their odd-ball neighbors with whom the lonely, marginalized boy had some affinity, and move to a small, remote town in the north. Here, life might have changed for the better, but instead the family begins to disintegrate. Socially isolated beyond regular infusions of bigotry from the other Brethren families or "holy rollers" in the town, his parents descend further into a rigid looking-glass world of religious fundamentalism that uses Elsdon as a whipping boy for all its frustrations. Driven more and more into himself and inspired by The Jungle Book, Elsdon builds a fragile internal world maintained by conversations with cows and sheep. He also talks to a small voice in his head which, for a time, is the closest thing he has to a confidant. Yet, when a sequence of disasters finally breaks up the family, the endearing Elsdon's amazing resilience and precocious humanity see him win through in the end.

Redemption of Elsdon Bird (Arena Bks.)

Virtue, Noel

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