one of the best narratives of the "double life" of a Victorian gentleman' Peter Ackroyd
The authors reveal their paint-mixing techniques
because they capture a timeless issue or problem in such a definitive way that the historical date of their writing is irrelevant
Over the last seven centuries
The Opposite of Loneliness is an assemblage of Marina’s essays and stories that
Andrew's Brain National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature (2002) one of the best narrativesThis brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been an inadvertent agent of disaster. Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and