1984 by Daniel G. Siegel, Erich Fromm, George Orwell, Julian Symons, Peter Davison @ Fiction book store

1984 by Daniel G. Siegel, Erich Fromm, George Orwell, Julian Symons, Peter Davison
In his celebrated 1948 vision of a world subsumed in tyranny and war, Orwell describes the process of events by which Winston Smith, a London clerk at the Ministry of Truth, comes to understand the true nature and aims of the government he works for, and portrays his doomed attempt to create a private life for himself and his lover Julia. One of the bleakest political novels ever written, 1984 illustrates Orwell's despair that democracy could ever summon the strength to overcome Communism in his lifetime.

AUTHOR: Daniel G. Siegel, Erich Fromm, George Orwell, Julian Symons, Peter Davison
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

The Breast by Philip Roth
Through a bizarre mix of hormonal disasters, David Kepesh becomes a huge female breast, retaining his human personality, his ability to talk, and his sex drive. Roth's surreal novel, both comic and horrifying, is about, among other things, loneliness...

AUTHOR: Philip Roth
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Tristram Shandy by Howard Anderson, John Moffatt, Laurence Sterne, Peter Conrad
L---d! said my mother, what is all this story about?----A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick----And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard. It is appropriate that the last line of Laurence Sterne's digressive, irreverent narrative should serve as the best introduction to the book. A classic of English literature, Tristram Shandy was published in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767, at a time when the English novel was just beginning to acquire its distinguishing features thanks to Sterne's contemporaries, Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson. Sterne borrowed some of his techniques from Rabelais, and some of his ideas from Robert Burton and John Locke. The bulk of this novel, however, attests to a rare creative faculty capable of parodying much of what would become the novelistic conventions of the 18th and 19th centuries, while at the same time broadening and exploring territory that has been rediscovered only in the 20th-century. Tristram Shandy ( shandy meaning crack-brained, half-crazy ) narrates his own genesis and development, beginning with the moment of his conception--although his digressions prevent him from taking his evolution much beyond the age of two. Through his eyes we meet his father, Walter, who is eloquent, animated, and equally fond of discursive ventures into philosophy, history, medicine, and science, all at a breakneck pace; his uncle Toby, whose main distractions are his own accounts of military strategies which he acts out with his servant Corporal Trim; the confused Mrs. Shandy; the polemical and hasty parson, Yorick; the ignorant physician, Dr. Slop; and the intractable household servant, Obadiah. Stern's abiding loyalty to the associative nature of ideas, to immediacy, has been singled out by critics as an early form of the stream-of-consciousness technique. The countless examples of Stern's stylistic innovations--approximating the human mind's tendency to disorder and reassemble reality, avoiding any consistent plot or conclusion, es

AUTHOR: Howard Anderson, John Moffatt, Laurence Sterne, Peter Conrad
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction

Beloved Large Print by Lynn Whitfield, Oprah Winfrey, Toni Morrison
Sethe, an escaped slave, kills her own daughter Beloved with a handsaw to prevent her from being claimed as a slave in this stunningly rendered story. Beloved returns to her mother as a ghost 20 years later.

AUTHOR: Lynn Whitfield, Oprah Winfrey, Toni Morrison
PUBLISHER: Dutton/Plume
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

The Low-Maintenance Garden by Steve Bradley, Susan Berry
This book contains useful and very thorough information about creating a garden that, once it is established, will require almost no work, and emphasizes ways in which gardening's 3 p's (planting, pruning, and propagating) can be simplified.

AUTHOR: Steve Bradley, Susan Berry
PUBLISHER: Firefly Books, Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Gardening

Another Day on Earth by Timothy Dekin
This volume draws from four previous chapbooks to present a sampling of the work of Dekin (1943-2001).

AUTHOR: Timothy Dekin
PUBLISHER: Northwestern University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction