THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER
by John Cheever · Knopf
This collection of Cheever's short fiction features the Swimmer, The enormous radio, The housebreaker of Shady Hill and fifty-eight other stories written and published over the past three decades.
SECOND GENERATION
by Howard Fast · Houghton Mifflin
This sequel to "The Immigrants" depicts the life of Barbara Lavette, daughter of the son of a poor Italian immigrant and a woman of San Francisco's elite, from the Depression through World War II.
THE PRAISE SINGER
by Mary Renault · Pantheon
Manuscripts: Funeral Games (1981), The Last of the Wine (1956), and The Praise Singer (1978).
THE SILMARILLION
by J.R.R. Tolkien · Houghton Mifflin
The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP
by John Irving · Dutton/Henry Robbins
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields, a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes, even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with lunacy and sorrow, yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries-with more than ten million copies in print-this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."
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