We publish this landmark edition with its original British cover and six of Burgess’s own illustrations.
A brilliantly funny spy novel, this morality tale of a Secret Service gone mad features sex, gluttony, violence, and treachery.
Moving backward and forward in time, Evening Is the Whole Day explores the closely guarded secrets that haunt the Rajasekharans: What was Chellam’s unforgivable crime? Why was Uma so intent on leaving? What did Aasha see?
Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce
A lively attempt to understand the meaning of music through a celestial dialogue with arguably the world's greatest composer.
Together these two works form a unique guide to one of the twentieth century's most talented, imaginative and prescient writers -- Back cover.
The corks of Russian champagne—bottles exploded: bubbly for the workers. Their table companions had bottles of Bud— var, a flask of vodka, a pinkish viscid liqueur which the young artisan—putting down his egg—fork— sipped with fat red ...
In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd is at once “tender and sharp-fanged” as Ana Menéndez evocatively charts the territory from Havana to Coral Gables, Florida, and explores whether any of us are capable, or even truly desirous, of ...
The Long Day Wanes-: A Memoir of Love and War
From the author of Urban Oracles comes Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena: somewhere between "The Blue Angel" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" rises the legend of Sirena Selena, the diva-siren of the Caribbean whose boleros seduce and ...