The Marble Faun by Flo Gibson, Malcolm Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Peter Robb, Richard H. Brodhead @ Fiction book store

The Marble Faun by Flo Gibson, Malcolm Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Peter Robb, Richard H. Brodhead
Hawthorne's young American, Hilda, became the model for Henry James's innocent heroines faced with the corrupt sophistications of Europe. This novel, Hawthorne's last, takes place in Rome and centers on a group of friends: Donatello, who becomes a mature person only after he becomes corrupted; Miriam, who persuades him to commit a vengeful murder; and two Americans, Hilda and Kenyon, artists who are witnesses to these terrible events, and who return home sadder but wiser. Hawthorne's descriptions of the Roman milieu--the churches, museums, and streets of the city--are particularly rich and detailed.

AUTHOR: Flo Gibson, Malcolm Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Peter Robb, Richard H. Brodhead
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

The Painitings of Our Lives by Grace Schulman
This fourth collection of poems takes as its subject matter various aspects of Judaism, the visual arts, New York City, and family. Schulman employs many forms, including a sonnet sequence and a ghazal.

AUTHOR: Grace Schulman
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction

Thin Red Line by James Jones
The classic war novel by James Jones is set at the time of the Allied invasion of Guadalcanal.

AUTHOR: James Jones
PUBLISHER: Dell Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

The Music Teacher by Robert Starer
A novel by composer Robert Starer about a middle-aged piano teacher and his protegee, who becomes his lover.

AUTHOR: Robert Starer
PUBLISHER: Overlook Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction

The Classic Tradition of Haiku by Faubion Bowers
This unique collection spans over 400 years (1488-1902) of haiku history by the greatest masters, in translations by top-flight scholars of the field. Haiku (distilled poems featuring 17 syllables) command enormous respect in Japan. Now readers of poetry in the West can savor these expressive masterpieces in this treasury.

AUTHOR: Faubion Bowers
PUBLISHER: Dover Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

The Humming Birds by Lucinda Roy
Lucinda Roy makes a living, breathing reality of women's history. Her poems compel us into the world she envisions, whether through the eyes of a slave or the eyes of a contemporary woman remembering Africa, remembering her dead mother, remembering nights of passionate love. And in the end the poems reveal how all these worlds are inevitably connected - how the slave, Lucy, still walks down the grand staircase of the plantation mansion, and how the poet's mother is still close by, waiting to be found. The work combines a seemingly effortless craft with an attention to detail that expands into unusual insights about the larger world. The poet excels at finding the uniquely personal image; even the tortoise, Albert, who was bombed during the London Blitz, becomes a potent symbol. All I can offer now is resistance/to created myth, and sign, and metaphor , she says. Indeed, her poems, beautiful as they are, go far beyond metaphor to grapple with the very substance of life.

AUTHOR: Lucinda Roy
PUBLISHER: Eighth Mountain Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction