Breakfast of Champions

The author questions the condition of modern man in this novel depicting a science-fiction writer's struggle to find peace and sanity in the world

Literature & Fiction

kurt-vonnegut

Humor & Satire

Delacorte Press\Seymour Lawrence

The author blends his own emotional experiences with views on American life and customs in bizarre if unaffected poetry and prose

Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, the Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and in Watermelon Sugar

BRAUTIGAN, Richard

Contemporary

Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today’s follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Kurt Vonnegut’s pen into hilarious farce—a final slapstick that may be the Almighty’s joke on us all.

Slapstick

Vonnegut, Kurt.

Carlo Reinhart returns in this concluding volume of Thomas Berger's Reinhart trilogy. Now 44, Carlo finds that he is an object. His wife disdains him, his son reviles him, his daughter adores him. Carlo needs more balance in his life!  To complicate matters, Bob Sweet shows up. Bob is an echo from the past, a man for whom success has become a habit. He gives Carlo a glimpse of the high life. But why this sudden interest? Can he be looking for a human guinea pig for his study of cryonics? Is Carlo going to be "put on ice?"  "It reads like a masterpiece!" (Harper's)

Vital Parts

BERGER, THOMAS

The marriage of Harvard graduate and budding poet and playwright Michael Davenport to radiant Radcliffe graduate Lucy Blaine founders under the strain of Lucy's million-dollar inheritance and the struggles of Michael's writing career

Young Hearts Crying

YATES,RICHARD

Valediction

The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority. 
So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name. But Boston's big boys don't know Spenser's ready and willing to meet death more than halfway. 
"Tough, wisecracking, unafraid and unexpectedly literate --in many respects the very exemplar of the species." (The New York Times)

Parker,Robert B.

United States

Observed by a ghost of the Vietnam War for one million years, the descendants of survivors of a cruise to the Galapagos Archipielago prove Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Galapagos

In a small Long Island town during the first months of World War II, Evan Shepard, a young machinist married for the second time, agrees to share a house with his wife's family and becomes torn by divided loyalties

Cold Spring Harbor

Genre Fiction

Black Tickets

Jayne Anne Phillips's reputation-making debut collection paved the way for a new generation of writers. Raved about by reviewers and embraced by the likes of Raymond Carver, Frank Conroy, Annie Dillard, and Nadine Gordimer, Black Tickets now stands as a classic.With an uncanny ability to depict the lives of men and women who rarely register in our literature, Phillips writes stories that lay bare their suffering and joy. Here are the abused and the abandoned, the violent and the passive, the impoverished and the disenfranchised who populate the small towns and rural byways of the country. A patron of the arts reserves his fondest feeling for the one man who wants it least. A stripper, the daughter of a witch, escapes from poverty into another kind of violence. A young girl during the Depression is caught between the love of her crazy father and the no less powerful love of her sorrowful mother. These are great American stories that have earned a privileged place in our literature.

Phillips, Jayne Anne.

Literary

What is it like to cover revolutions and interview the great revolutionary figures of our time? This lively firsthand account of one of our most eminent foreign correspondents, the first American woman journalist to cover the world on such a scale, provides a glimpse into this glamorous, rewarding, exhausting, and grueling life. About the Author: Georgie Anne Geyer has been a foreign correspondent, an author and biographer, and a syndicated columnist for half a century, currently with Universal Press Syndicate. She is the author of Buying the Night Flight and When Cats Reigned Like Kings.

Buying the night flight: The autobiography of a woman foreign correspondent (Radcliffe biography series)

Geyer, Georgie Anne

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