Blindness José Saramago ISBN:9780156007757 About the book: A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among [...]
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf ISBN:9780156628709 About the book: This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to reveal much more. [...]
The Life Before Her Eyes by Laura Kasischke
The Life Before Her Eyes Laura Kasischke ISBN:9780156027120 About the book: Diana stands before the mirror preening with her best friend, Maureen. Suddenly, a classmate enters holding a gun, and Diana sees her life dance before her eyes. In a moment the future she was just imagining–a doting wife and mother at the age of [...]
Blindness (Movie Tie-In) by José Saramago
Blindness (Movie Tie-In) José Saramago ISBN:9780156035583 About the book: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness [...]
Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton
Starting Out in the Evening Brian Morton ISBN:9780156033411 About the book: Leonard Schiller is a novelist in his seventies, a second-string but respectable talent who produced only a small handful of books. Heather Wolfe is an attractive graduate student in her twenties. She read Schiller’s novels when she was growing up and they changed her [...]
