The Lambert family isn't doing well. Alfred has Parkinson's disease and a bad case of alienation from his wife, Enid. Gary is a banker with a heart of steel. Chip is in New York City trying to find himself, but losing the battle. And Denise is stuck in a destructive affair with someone very unsuitab ...
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In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams. By the author of Wonder Boys and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
<P>The acclaimed author of <I>Jesus' Son</I> and <I>Already Dead</I> returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. <I>The Name of the World</I> is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern university who has been patient in his grief after an accident takes the lives of his ...
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In this humorous novel, Anthony James, who weighs 300 pounds and lives in Brooklyn, is a fan of horror films and not much else, but he does manage to escort his younger sister to Virginia to enter a beauty contest, a trip that has farcical results.