Losing Charlotte

CLAY, HEATHER

Knopf Group

A riotous, bitingly funny, and supremely clever novel from one of our most distinctive voices in the English language. \n\nThe year is 1970, and Keith Nearing, a twenty-year-old literature student, is spending his summer vacation in a castle on a mountainside in Italy. The Sexual Revolution is in full-swing--a historical moment of unprecedented opportunity--and Keith and his friends are immediately caught up in its chaotic, ecstatic throes. Yet they soon discover a disturbing truth: between the death of one social order and the birth of another, there exists a state of liminal purgatory, once described by the Russian thinker Alexander Herzen as "a pregnant widow."\n\nAs Amis deftly explores the repercussions and consequences of that one summer, he presents us with a precise and poignant portrait of the liberating possibilities, and the haunting consequences, of change. Expertly written and full of wit and pathos, The Pregnant Widow is Amis at his fearless best.

The Pregnant Widow

Literature & Fiction

AMIS,Martin

Genre Fiction

Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

BENDER, AIMEE

Dreams in a Time of War. Ngugi Wa Thiongo

Biographies & Memoirs

WA'THIONG'O, NGUGI

Historical

Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

David Shields

Essays & Correspondence

<p>Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual creativity. There were more places to express ourselves than ever before ...yet no one really had anything to say. Does this have to be our future? In "You are not a Gadget" digital guru and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier reveals how recent developments in our culture are deadening personal interaction, stifling genuine inventiveness and even changing us as people. Showing us the way to a future where individuals mean more than machines, this is a searing manifesto against mass mediocrity, a creative call to arms - and an impassioned defence of the human.</p>

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto. Jaron Lanier

LANIER, JARON

Computers & Technology

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