<p>As decribed in one of the reviews: ...An expatriate English couple and a West-Indian would-be revolutionary are the three main characters, and the agonizing (and mostly self-destructive) sexual and philosophic choices they are faced with ring true to life. The compromises and rationalizations they make to themselves and each other result in their irrevocable mental and moral deterioration. The fragility of the social setting in which Jane, Roche, and Jimmy find themselves leads to infidelity, sexual abuse, murder, and what can be just as horrifying as any of these, the voluntary surrender of one's soul..."</p>

Guerrillas

Literature & Fiction

V.S.Naipaul

Contemporary

Penguin Books Ltd; New Ed Edition

This is the story of mid-life crisis, and the search for a pastoral idyll, which becomes a sort of "Cold Comfort Farm" of the 1990s as Clea comes to know her new neighbours who include a lesbian teepee commune, some born-again fanatics and the ramshackle Marsh family.

Bedrock

Alther, Lisa

Also published as Death and the Lover, this new edition features a foreword from the musician and artist Graham Coxon Narcissus is a teacher at Mariabronn, a monastery in medieval Germany, and Goldmund his favorite pupil. While Narcissus remains detached from the world in prayer and meditation, Goldmund runs away from the monastery in pursuit of love. Thereafter he lives a picaresque wanderer’s life, his amatory adventures resulting in pain as well as ecstasy. His eventual reunion with Narcissus brings into focus the diversity between artist and thinker, Dionysian and Apollonian.

Narcissus and Goldmund

Hermann, Hesse

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Guerrillas

Bedrock

Narcissus and Goldmund