Set against the backdrop of Texas blue-blood society, this novel delves into the intrigues and complexities of its elite members. Linda Francis Lee weaves a tale filled with scandal and drama, revealing the secrets that lie beneath the polished surface of high society. Through engaging characters and a captivating narrative, readers are invited to explore the extravagant lifestyles and hidden truths of this exclusive world.
A sharp and humorous debut novel reimagines Animal Farm for the 21st century, focusing on a teddy bear caught in the turmoil of America's war on terror.
Shimmering with sensuous ecstasy, dark with terror and mystery, this is the extraordinary novel of a "happy trinity of lovers." The diplomat Piers, his sister Sylvie, and the English doctor Bruce are at the heart of Durrell's new creation, as is the medieval walled city of Avignon. And haunting them all is Monsieur, Prince of Darkness, whose ancient satanic rites still flourish in the modern world.
Empoigner la vie et la savourer à loisir. Henry Mille ne réalisera vraiment son rêve qu'après avoir rencontré la jeune femme à qui est dédié ce livre, Mona (héroïne de Plexus et de Nexus), et après avoir compris que, plus encore que mordre la vie à belles dents, il désire exprimer ce qu'il pense et ressent. La période qu'évoque Tropique du Capricorne est celle qui précède la découverte de sa vocation d'écrivain. La sexualité tient une place qui avait fait interdire le livre à sa parution en 1939, mais Henry Miller ne fait pas que fouler aux pieds les interdits : il raconte avec une verve infatigable son enfance à Brooklyn, ses ambitions, sa découverte du surréalisme, sa philosophie.
The groundbreaking novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral that originally propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, this masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy. "Deliciously funny...absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious...a brilliantly vivid reading experience." —The New York Times Book Review "Touching as well as hilariously lewd.... Roth is vibrantly talented." —New York Review of Books Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.