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2005-2006 BookDescription Author
   
2005

 

 

A Million Little

Pieces

A Million Little Pieces

 

"The most lacerating tale of drug addiction since William S. Burroughs' Junky." --"The Boston Globe"

 

"Again and again, the book delivers recollections that leave the reader winded and unsteady.  James Frey's staggering recovery memoir could well be seen as the final word on the topic."--"San Francisco Chronicle"

"A brutal, beautifully written memoir."--"The Denver Post"

 

"Gripping . . . A great story . . . You can't help but cheer his victory." --"Los Angeles Times Book Review" 

 James

Frey

2005

 

 

Light in August

Light in August 

 

Light in August is the story od Lena Grove's search for the father of her unborn child, and features one of Faulkner's most memorable characters: Joe Christmas, a desperate drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.

William

Faulkner 

2005

 

 

The Sound

and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

 

First published in 1929, Faulkner created his " heart's darling, " the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. 
 

William

Faulkner 

 
2005

 

 

As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying 

 

At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member -- including Addie -- and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.

William

Faulkner 

 
2006

 

 

Night

Night

 

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel


Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.  This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent.  And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man.

Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.

Elie

Wiesel