Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.
With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge. Views: 331
A story of a man brought to reckon with his buried past. Reverend Martin comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious "meeting" with the Reverend. Views: 325
Stories and reminiscences about his early life, times, and associations as a pulp writer in the 1920's and 1930's.Collects 11 early stories, with autobiographical introduction and
remarks between stories. Contents: Introduction, essay by Jack
Williamson; Scientifiction, Searchlight of Science, essay by Jack
Williamson. Stories: The Metal Man; The Girl from Mars (excerpt),
novelette by Jack Williamson and Miles J. Breuer, M.D.; The Cosmic
Express; The Meteor Girl; Through the Purple Cloud; The Doom from Planet
4; Twelve Hours to Live!; The Plutonian Terror; Salvage in Space; "We
Ain't Beggars;" Dead Star Station.
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The Parker children's home becomes a battlefield because they want a pet while their mother declares that she will have no gerbils in her house. Views: 313
One of the Grand Masters of SCi-Fi relates tales of the early days of the genre becoming important. Views: 306
These two classic works capture the tide of world events even as they unfold the compelling tale of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.
The multimillion-copy bestsellers that capture all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of the Second World War -- and that constitute Wouk's crowning achievement -- are available for the first time in trade paperback. Views: 285
Jaxom, a rebellious young aristocrat, and Ruth, his white dragon, fly into another time to retrieve the queen's stolen egg, thereby averting a dragonrider war, and find their planet threatened once again by a Threadfall. Views: 270
Civilization as we know it has been annihilated. The decay and chaos of the multiverse have left Europe in a surreal, yet ever-fashionable, mess. Jerry Cornelius finds himself in an increasingly futile series of guises, part of a cast of characters dancing the Entropy Tango towards oblivion. Will the legendary Cornelius ever be united with his true beloved, his sister Catherine? And will balance ever be restored to devastated London?Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, The Condition of Muzak is the fourth, climactic novel in the Cornelius Quartet. But this is by no means the last we will see of Jerry Cornelius—an indelible spirit of counter-culture who continues to inspire writers and artists to this day. Views: 250
Raven
Out of the bonds of slavery arose a beautiful warrior...Feared across the land, her blade was stained with the blood of thousands...
Raven
With her mysterious companion-mentor, Spellbinder, and a great black bird to watch over them, she was invincible. Together they would face the savage butchery of battle and the gathering forces of evil.
Raven
Deep intot he lost land of Quwhon she rode, her desinty written in blood-stained ice and carved in the distorted faces of the dead. Along with her loyal companions sh ewoudl battle men and demons to challenge her mortal foe, the evil weaponmaster Karl ir Donwayne. While beneath the snow and ice, Tanash, the Frozen God and enemy of all that lives, is imprisoned. Soon he will be free and men shall know the horror of true evil...
The Frozen God Views: 241
Never trust your heart to the New York Times bestselling master of suspense, Stephen King. Especially with an anthology that features the classic stories "Children of the Corn," "The Lawnmower Man," "Graveyard Shift," "The Mangler," and "Sometimes They Come Back"-which were all made into hit horror films.
"Unbearable suspense." (Dallas Morning News)
From the depths of darkness, where hideous rats defend their empire, to dizzying heights, where a beautiful girl hangs by a hair above a hellish fate, this chilling collection of twenty short stories will plunge readers into the subterranean labyrinth of the most spine-tingling, eerie imagination of our time.
Contents:
· Introduction · John D. MacDonald · in
· Foreword · fw
· Jerusalem’s Lot · nv Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978
· Graveyard Shift · ss Cavalier Oct ’70
· Night Surf · ss Cavalier Aug ’74
· I Am the Doorway · ss Cavalier Mar ’71
· The Mangler · nv Cavalier Dec ’72
· The Boogeyman · ss Cavalier Mar ’73
· Gray Matter · ss Cavalier Oct ’73
· Battleground · ss Cavalier Sep ’72
· Trucks · ss Cavalier Jun ’73
· Sometimes They Come Back · nv Cavalier Mar ’74
· Strawberry Spring · ss Ubris Fll ’68; Cavalier Nov ’75
· The Ledge · ss Penthouse Jul ’76
· The Lawnmower Man · ss Cavalier May ’75
· Quitters, Inc. · ss Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978
· I Know What You Need · nv Cosmopolitan Sep ’76
· Children of the Corn · nv Penthouse Mar ’77
· The Last Rung on the Ladder · ss Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978
· The Man Who Loved Flowers · ss Gallery Aug ’77
· One for the Road · ss Maine Mar ’77
· The Woman in the Room · ss Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978 Views: 240
Passions flare in a most unlikely love triangle between three remarkable characters facing arduous life challenges in this engrossing novel by bestselling author Marge Piercy
Heartbroken after her girlfriend leaves her for another woman, Leslie, a history grad student, follows her thesis advisor from Grand Rapids to Detroit for a fresh start. There she befriends seventeen-year-old Honor, who sparks a familiar passion within her. Feeling that she can’t act on her desire, she sleeps with Honor’s older friend, Bernard, a gay former street hustler who resents his past and, to make matters more complicated, also lusts for Honor.
As the three grapple with issues of sexuality and identity, author Marge Piercy manages to be both intimately attuned to her characters’ emotions and aware of their role in a larger social and economic context. Leslie, Honor, and Bernard struggle financially in a city that doesn’t offer many opportunities, and they discover that expressing their sexuality and finding love may be privileges they cannot afford.
“A novel as ambiguous and fascinating as life itself.” —The New York Times
“Piercy goes over her subjects with a fine-tooth comb and provides food for thought about some of our directions, feelings and values.” —Publishers Weekly Views: 236
One family’s household has been in a state of disarray because of one small furry problem. Meet Houdini, an extraordinarily brilliant escapologist. No, not that Houdini. This one is a hamster. Once you meet him, you will understand that his owners just couldn’t name him anything else, for his name is quite fitting. He can escape from anything—a cage or the clutches of a mean cat. While on his escapades, he causes all kinds of trouble from chewing through wires to causing a flood. But Houdini thinks it’s all worth it, because he is desperate to explore the great Outdoors. But once he gets out, will he ever come back? Or will this be his final escape?
From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 225
