Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin ... Found inside – Page 663His works include more than ten other volumes of verse , as well as the satirical novel , Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer ( 1945 ) , the love story See You in the Morning ( 1948 ) , and Fables and Other Little Tales ( 1953 ) . Patchen also gave ... From the critically acclaimed author of the novel The Good Brother and memoir My Father the Pornographer, Same River Twice is the second volume from an American literary star. “If you haven't read Chris Offutt, you've missed an ... Found inside – Page 1PornBurger is Washington, DC, chef, food stylist, and creative producer Mathew Ramsey’s orgasmic experiment: ingredient-driven, flavor-intense, sensually divine excess that caters to the food fetishist in all of us. 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A dazzling array of Hollywood starlets and pin-up girls come to life in hundreds of eye-popping, 3-D photographs taken by legendary film star Harold Lloyd "Lush and glorious?" ?Vanity Fair Includes a pair of Harold Lloyd-style 3-D glasses! A New York Times Bestseller The Gargoyle: the mesmerizing story of one man's descent into personal hell and his quest for salvation. Everywhere in this rich novel is the drama of opposites, but, above all, sex and death are never far from each other. 'A marvellous novel, deep, moving, rich and resonant, about love, lust, life and death. A Metro newspaper fiction title of the week. The Pornographer of Vienna is an acclaimed fictionalized life of Egon Schiele, the great Austrian artist and protégé of Gustav Klimt. 'One of the greatest writers of our era.' Hilary Mantel 'John McGahern is the Irish novelist everyone should read.' Colm Tóibín 'A masterpiece. When third-grader Morgy MacDougal-MacDuff moves from California to Massachusetts with his parents, he has a lot of new things to get used to before he feels comfortable. "Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates ... Found insideThe title is a euphemism for death; the final pages of the book refer to a rumination about "sleeping the big sleep". In 1999, the book was voted 96th of Le Monde and 's "100 Books of the Century". Found inside – Page 136... the pornographer as terrorist , ” as opposed to the “ lackey pornographer , like the devious fellows who write love stories for women ' s magazines , ” to be a friend of women " because he begins to approach some kind of emblematic truth . Found inside – Page 90Bernard MacLaverty 10 A PORNOGRAPHER WOOS . ud u am sitting on the warm sand with my back to a rock watching you , my love . You have just come from a swim and the water is still in beads all over you , immiscible with the suntan oil . Found inside – Page 228The woman who falls in love with the pornographer and bears his child is one ... who has a destructive love affair with a self-hating nihilist whose death ... . . O'Donoghue is a perceptive, clever writer' GUARDIAN 'A darkly humorous, keenly observed blend of millennial drift and murder mystery from a razor-sharp writer' RED CHARLIE REGAN'S LIFE ISN'T GOING FORWARD, SO SHE'S DECIDED TO GO BACK. Found inside – Page xivIn a sense , then , these are stories that belong to a literature of alienation , stories that take us into territory previously ... F. Scott Fitzgerald , John Updike , Philip Roth , Mary McCarthy , and Zora Neale Hurston , to name but a few - how love ... Obscene Thoughts: A Pornographer's Perspective on Sex, Love and Dating examines progressive, intellectual and academic constructs regarding mate selection, sexual behavior and the reasons why people cheat. Found insidePUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In “one of the most sensitive, nuanced examinations of father and son relationships” (The Boston Globe), award-winning writer Chris Offutt struggles to understand his recently deceased father, ... In these seven stories of dream-like lucidity, the wasteland of the human psyche is mapped with deadly precision. ‘Resonant and frightening...totally original’ Observer ‘Exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing’ The Times With ironic humor and a sharp compassion, The Pornographers follows its oddly endearing hero through a succession of tragicomic encounters—with the rich and sometimes treacherous clients to whom he purveys a bewildering diversity of ... Found inside – Page 153and The Pornographer would have led him to see the love story ' of the second half of The Leavetaking differently ; after The Pornographer , the sexual ... Found inside – Page 125The anxious search for identity in the first decades of life , ' the painful becoming of ourselves ' ( The Pornographer , p.20 ) , especially through sexual experience and falling in love , which gives The Dark , The Leavetaking , and the stories of ... He credited his pornographic efforts with teaching him to write to specified lengths while facing deadlines: "I acquired the work discipline of a professional writer, capable of a solid daily output." Though the apparently idyllic relationship is over, their love has not died, merely taken on a different form. As time passes and their paths continue to cross, the past festers and torments them, like an infection. As a grade seven student living in an affluent suburb of Vancouver, our unnamed narrator and his closest friend Nettie, are introduced to the exciting world of super-8 filmmaking by a progressive young teacher. Recounts the author's experiences as an Ivy League college graduate turned successful pornographic film producer. Tours of the Black Clock is a story in which history and the laws of space and time are unforgettably transformed. Found insideShe broke the pattern with Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (99, ... Mike Newell); Strip Search (04, Sidney Lumet) for TV; The Pornographer: A ... Found insideLibrarian Annie Spence has done just that, writing letters to the books under her care, from love letters to Matilda and The Goldfinch, to snarky break-up notes to Fifty Shades of Grey and The Hobbit. 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Found insideMoving and funny, Love May Fail by Matthew Quick is about the heartache and daring choices it takes to become the person you know deep down you are meant to be. Found insideDespite his vast wealth, bachelor status, his own magazine Swagbelly, and the company of a succession of gorgeous models, Elliot Grubman finds happiness eluding him as his wife leaves him for her rock-climbing instructor, his son decides to ... Found inside – Page 58The stories of cruelty and suffering that he would tell in his cups ... of drinks while regaling us with tales of his queer love life and the art world. Francine du Plessix Gray draws on thousands of pages of correspondence between the magnetic, aristocratic Marquis de Sade and his plain, bourgeois wife, to explore in historical and psychological detail what it was like to live with this ... It is a story of sex and death, art and money, poetry and pornography, life's brevity and our yearning for permanence. 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