This acclaimed collection of short stories from a talented young Pushcart Prize-winning writer provides wickedly funny, in-your-face contortions of all facets of our popular culture. ...

The Dog King, winner of Europe's prestigious Aristeion Prize, is a work of fierce enchantment -- beautiful, terrifying, and sulphurously comic.<P>The setting is a town called Moor, where during the war thousands of prisoners were brutally killed in a nearby stone quarry. Now the war is over, and the victors have reduced Moor to a Dark Age penal colony, whose inhabitants must endlessly relive their guilt. Among those inhabitants are three ...

In a parody of a thriller novel, Harry the Hack, newly recruited literary spy, follows a mystery woman seeking wisdom and sanity. ...

"FAST-PACED . . . PIERCY BREATHES LIFE INTO THE ACTUAL HISTORICAL FIGURES WHO SHAPED THE REVOLUTION."<BR>--San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle <BR>In her most splendid, thought-provoking novel yet, Marge Piercy brings to vibrant life three women who play prominent roles in the tumultuous, bloody French Revolution--as well as their more famous male counterparts. <BR>Defiantly independent Claire Lacombe tests her theory: if ...

Virginia Woolf was an inventive, witty correspondent, whether commenting on a domestic crisis, politics, or the roving of the writer's mind. Edited and with an Introduction by Joanne Trautmann Banks; Index. ...

Edited and with a Preface by Toni Morrison, this posthumous collection of short stories, essays, and interviews offers lasting evidence of Bambara's passion, lyricism, and tough critical intelligence. Included are tales of mothers and daughters, rebels and seeresses, community activists and aging gangbangers, as well as essays on film and literature, politics and race, and on the difficulties and necessities of forging an identity as an artist, ...

This gothic, epistolary novel has lain in obscurity since its first publication in 1790, with only three known copies in existence today Written primarily by Theobald Wolfe Tone (see page 11 for his Autobiography), it parodies the popular sentimental fiction of the time. It is a fascinating roman-a-clef based on living originals within the enclosed world of several famous families of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy and describes a torrid love affair ...

Banana Boots is a one-man-show / memoir in which Fennario recounts, with astonishing insight and wit, the phenomenon of taking his famous bilingual play, Balconville, to Belfast on a British / Canadian cultural mission. Given the subject of Balconville, that the real problem in Quebec is not one of language or culture, but one of British imperialism and the class structure it imposes on its "colonials", the ironies of such an event are, of ...

"I will never forgive you."Breakup is the erotically charged chronicle of the tempestuous final months of an eighteen-year romantic and literary partnership, self-destructing in the aftermath of the ultimate betrayal. Fearlessly and courageously, Texier chronicles the end of that love as it is wrecked by infidelity and deceit in a literary tour de force reminiscent by turns of Marguerite Duras and Henry Miller. <BR>Texier writes in ...

A pioneer in the use of California local color, Harte in his story "The Luck of Roaring Camp", first published in the Overland Monthly in July 1868, "reached across the continent and startled the Academists on the Atlantic Coast", as Kate Chopin later declared. Harte's subsequent Overland tales and verse . . . challenged genteel assumptions about literary production and helped open the pages of the Atlantic Monthly and other eastern papers to ...