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Josie Tyrell, art model, runaway, and denizen of LA's rock scene
finds a chance at real love with Michael Faraday, a Harvard dropout
and son of a renowned pianist. But when she receives a call from
the coroner, asking her to identify her lover's body, her bright
dreams all turn to black. As Josie struggles to understand
Michael's death and to hold onto the world they shared, she is both
attracted to and repelled by his pianist mother, Meredith, who
blames Josie for her son's torment. Soon the two women are drawn
into a twisted relationship that reflects equal parts distrust and
blind need. With the luxurious prose and fever pitch intensity that
are her hallmarks, Janet Fitch weaves a spellbinding tale of love,
betrayal, and the possibility of transcendence. A dark, crooked
beauty that fulfills all the promise of White Oleander and confirms
that Janet Fitch is an artist of the very highest order.-Los
Angeles Times Book Review Lushly written, dramatically plotted. . .
Fitch's Los Angeles is so real it breathes.-Atlantic Monthly There
is nothing less than a stellar sentence in this novel. Fitch's
emotional honesty recalls the work of Joyce Carol Oates, her
strychnine sentences the prose of Paula Fox.-Cleveland Plain Dealer
A page-turning psychodrama. . . . Fitch's prose penetrates the
inner lives of [her characters] with immediacy and bite.-Publishers
Weekly Fitch wonderfully captures the abrasive appeal of punk
music, the bohemian, sometimes squalid lifestyle, the performers,
the drugs, the alienation. This is crackling fresh stuff you don't
read every day.-USA Today In dysfunctional family narratives, Fitch
is to fiction what Eugene O'Neill is to drama.-Chicago Sun-Times
Riveting. . . . An uncommonly accomplished page-turner.-Elle
White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young
girl growing up the hard way. It is a powerful story of mothers and
daughters, their ambiguous alliances, their selfish love and cruel
behaviour, and the search for love and identity.Astrid has been
raised by her mother, a beautiful, headstrong poet. Astrid forgives
her everything as her world revolves around this beautiful creature
until Ingrid murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life.
Astrid's fierce determination to survive and be loved makes her an
unforgettable figure. 'LIQUID POETRY' - Oprah Winfrey 'Tangled,
Complex and extraordinarily moving' - Observer
The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series
of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption.
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White
Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet
imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey
through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe,
with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be
learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of
self-discovery.
After the loves and betrayals of The Revolution of Marina M., young
poet Marina Makarova finds herself alone amid the devastation of
the Russian Civil War--pregnant and adrift, forced to rely on her
own resourcefulness to find a place to wait out the birth of her
child and eventually make her way back to her native city,
Petrograd. After two years of revolution, the city that was once
St. Petersburg is almost unrecognizable, the haunted, half-emptied,
starving Capital of Once Had Been, its streets teeming with
homeless children. Moved by their plight, though hardly better off
herself, she takes on the challenge of caring for these orphans,
until they become the tool of tragedy from an unexpected direction.
Shaped by her country's ordeals and her own trials--betrayal and
privation and inconceivable loss--Marina evolves as a poet and a
woman of sensibility and substance hardly imaginable at the
beginning of her transformative odyssey. Chimes of a Lost Cathedral
is the culmination of one woman's s journey through some of the
most dramatic events of the last century--the epic story of an
artist who discovers her full power, passion, and creativity just
as her revolution reveals its true direction for the future.
"No Stopping Train" is the magnum opus and final novel of the late
writer Les Plesko, a powerful, swirling novel of memory and
violence set during the Hungarian Revolution.
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a spontaneous nationwide
revolt following World War II that spread quickly across the
destabilizing country. A new government pledged to re-establish
free elections until a large Soviet force invaded, killing more
than 2500 Hungarians and forcing 200,000 Hungarians to flee the
country. Mass arrests and denunciations continued for months until
a new Soviet-installed government suppressed all opposition. Public
discussion of this revolution was suppressed in Hungary for more
than thirty years.
Although the revolution failed, it served as a source of great
inspiration to many Hungarians, and here Les Plesko taps into his
country's history as the dramatic backdrop to his most accomplished
and powerful novel. Sandor and Margit are young lovers suffering
with their nation through the degradations of war, hunger, and
political oppression in Budapest. Into their lives comes the
mercurial Erzsebet - ravaged, war-torn, alluring. Their eventual
love triangle upends an already tenuous existence and threatens
what little safety they have found in a nation on the brink of
revolution. When Sandor's activities as an underground publisher
are exposed in a vicious act of betrayal, the lives of each of our
characters will never be the same.
"No Stopping Train" is a stylistic tour de force and the final work
of Les Plesko.
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