Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to...
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Author:Joyce, JamesSummary:Joyce's experimental masterpiece set a new standard for modernist fiction, pushing the English language past all previous thresholds in its quest to capture a day in the life of an Everyman in turn-of-the-century Dublin.
- Author:Simon, MichaelSummary:
Detective Dan Reles is settling into his new life with a wife, a son, and a career in Austin's homicide division. Then his deadbeat, ex-mafia enforcer father rolls into town. It seems that Ben Reles has had a run-in with Sam Zelig...
- Author:Simon, MichaelSummary:
Detective Dan Reles looks at the high profile case of the murdered former child star as a way to jump start his career and his life after being dumped by the woman he loves. His investigation leads him to the most pious power broker in...
- Author:Richler, MordecaiSummary:
Joshua Then and Now is about Joshua Shapiro today, and the Joshua he was. His father a boxer turned honest crook, his mother an erotic dancer whose greatest performance was at Joshua bar mitzvah, Joshua has overcome his inauspicious...
- Author:Bellow, SaulSummary:
This National Book Award winning novel traces five days in the life of a man whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both his own life and the complexity of modern life.
- Author:Simon, MichaelSummary:
When an assassination attempt on a black community activist kills a young girl and leaves a little boy critically wounded, Detective Dan Reles heads the investigation. The brass decide, however, that a black detective should handle this...
