The year is 1815 and Captain Hugh Austen of the Grenadier Guards is attending a ball before he leads his troops to face Napoleon at Waterloo. A young woman asks his help and the vanishes, leaving only a miniature portrait of herself. The woman is connected with a Satanic Man in Black who is rumored to practice Unhallowed Arts. Soon, Austen discovers that the mysterious woman wa...(展开全部)

The year is 1815 and Captain Hugh Austen of the Grenadier Guards is attending a ball before he leads his troops to face Napoleon at Waterloo. A young woman asks his help and the vanishes, leaving only a miniature portrait of herself. The woman is connected with a Satanic Man in Black who is rumored to practice Unhallowed Arts. Soon, Austen discovers that the mysterious woman wa...(展开全部)

"STARTLING . . . FIENDISH . . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING."--New York Daily News "Like Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife."--Rolling Stone "SENSUAL . . . BOLD, FAST-PAC...(展开全部)

"STARTLING. . . FIENDISH. . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING." --New York Daily News Like Interview With the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife. --Rolling Stone "SHOCKING. . . A BRILLIANT BOOK....(展开全部)

"The Graham Greene of Uruguay . . . foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus."-"The Sunday Telegraph"Medina lives across the river from Santa Maria, a town he is not allowed to enter and therefore wishes to destroy. "Let the Wind Speak" sees Juan Carlos Onetti coming to terms with his exclusion from the Santa Marias of his childhood, his first sexual conquests, his first cig...(展开全部)

Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a boutique in Port of Spain, but behind closed doors she’s covering up bruises from her abusive partner and seeking solace in an affair with her boss. When she witnesses a woman murdered by a jealous lover, the reality of her own future comes a little too close to home. Bringing us her ...(展开全部)

In the backwoods of Ohio, Willard Russell’s wife is succumbing to cancer, no matter how much he drinks, prays, or sacrifices animals at his "prayer log." Meanwhile, his son Arvin is growing up, from a kid bullied at school into a man who knows when to take action. Around them swirl a nefarious cast of characters—a demented team of serial killers, a spider-eating preacher, and a...(展开全部)

From the acclaimed author of Knockemstiff —called “powerful, remarkable, exceptional” by the Los Angeles Times —comes a dark and riveting vision of America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree. In The Devil All the Time , Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers with the religious...(展开全部)

"The Devil in the Flesh," one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War. The narrator, a boy of 16, tells of his love affair with Martha Lacombe, a young woman whose soldier husband is away at the front. With an accuracy of insight that is almost ruthless, he describes his conflicting emotions-the pride o...(展开全部)