Don Juan in Lourdes

""Don Juan in Lourdes..".an admirable idea--the failed writer and unfailing sensualist, losing his sight, dragged to Lourdes for a miracle, roughing up all Europe on the way....What Hemingway did for the twenties in "The Sun Also Rises, " DeMaria does here for the sixties."--Anthony Burgess.

DeMaria, Robert

Literature & Fiction

Vineyard Pr

A great Italian-American saga that covers 60 years and three generations of the Adamo family, "Sons and Brothers" is set against a backdrop of history from the Great Blizzard of 1888 to the end of World War II.

Sons and Brothers

Contemporary

That Kennedy Girl

""That Kennedy Girl"" tells the story of Kathleen Kennedy and her struggle to live her own life her own way, in spite of enormous pressures from her parents and the rest of the clan. Only her brother Jack, whom she loved profoundly, seemed to understand her. It was, perhaps, the saddest of all the Kennedy tragedies. Kathleen lost both her husband and her brother, Joe, in World War II, and shortly thereafter, at the age of 28, died herself in an airplane crash.

Genre Fiction

Sister Glory

Meyer, Ellen Hope

To the young Catullus Rome was a golden nightmare. Vast and teeming, viciously corrupt, this center of the crumbling Republic was also the setting for his own self-destroying search for perfection in love. For in Rome reigned Clodia...the Lesbia of his poems -- enigmatic, beautiful, depraved.This is the story of Catullus's metamorphosis from a bright-haired, romantic youth into a man ill and embittered at the age of thirty. It is also the story of the last days of the Republic, and of Cicero's struggle against the brutish Clodius, whose ruffians roamed the streets after dark. His scorn for public opinion, his defilement of the mysteries of the Good Goddess, his relationship with his sister and his naked lust for power exceeded the tolerance even of the world's most sophisticated city. It is the story of Caesar, Pompey and Crassus, and their battle for political domination through terror and subterfuge. But it is most of all the story of an extraordinary woman, one of the great beauties of the age, complex, sinful, brilliant, and of the the meaning to her of love: "Death's only enemy...our best and only god".

Clodia

To be a king: A novel about Christopher Marlowe

Christopher MarloweShakespeare's rival, brilliant poet, heretic and spy, was murdered in a tavern in Deptford in 1593. In this biographical novel he talks about his art: "Poetry is the longest arm of the human mind. As we strive for knowledge absolute, which is impossible, of course, everything eventually fails us: logic, science, and even words. The aspiration is our blessing and our curse. Our victories are brief but wonderful; our failures tragic, but still, in a way, wonderful. When we can no longer phrase in syllogisms what we fell we want to say, we turn to metaphors. Imagination leaps into the darkness beyond the small circle of logic's light and brings back sparkling fragments of truth. So you see, it is not for entertainment alone that I labor at my art and craft -- though, God knows, I have entertained some several thousand people in my time. In the public theatres, I mean. No, it is for something far more ambitious, though far less nameable. And in any case, I have very little choice, being, like the nightingale, uncontrollably excited by the darkness to sing my song".

To Be a King: A Novel About Christopher Marlowe

The decline and fall of America

One of the funniest novels of the new year and maybe the old--a combination of Joyce and Waugh and James Bond.--Kirkus Reviews.

The Decline and Fall of America

Carnival of Angels is a novel about the human condition, about love, about the old dichotomy between the body and the soul. It is an exciting narrative with metaphysical overtones and an intricate fabric of symbols. It is a story of Mario, more the old Hamlet than the new angry young man.In his last year at the University on Morningside Heights Mario rebels against the gray academic surroundings, the conformity and sterile intellectuality. He descends to the lower world, to Harlem, in a symbolic journey of discovery. In this hot, squalid, dangerous, yet exciting atmosphere he moves back to the beginnings of man, back to the fundamental terrors and desires.In this shadow world he meets Pearl, an exotic and tragic girl to whom he is mysteriously attracted. Inevitably he confronts her violent, half-insane lover. Here also he meets the archetype of all motherhood, a black woman called Mama. His sojourn in this dreamlike world leads not only to disaster and violence, but also to a revelation and triumph, and eventually he emerges into the light once more.

Carnival of Angels

Blowout

Format Paperback Subject Fiction Action Adventure Publisher Vineyard Press

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