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The Medici Boy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 367

The Medici Boy

While creating his famous bronze of David and Goliath, Donatello’s passion for his beautiful model and part time rent boy, Agnolo, ignites a dangerous jealousy that ultimately leads to murder. Luca, the complex and conflicted assistant, will sacrifice all to save Donatello, even his master’s friend--the great patron of art, Cosimo de’ Medici.

The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast

John L'Heureux spent his long, prolific career exploring questions of morality and faith in stories that entertain, surprise, and sometimes disturb; and The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast compiles the enduring stories of a distinctive American writer.

The Shrine at Altamira
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

The Shrine at Altamira

A novel of cultural and emotional divides—and the consequences of obsessive love—from the author of An Honorable Profession, a New York Times Notable Book. The Shrine at Altamira by John L’Heureux has the simple shape and powerful impact of Greek tragedy. When Maria Corazon Alvarez meets Russell Whitaker at a school dance, she sees his blue eyes and solid American name as a ticket out of the ghetto into a better life. They dance, they touch, they tumble into a love so strong and elemental it should last forever. But gradually the balance shifts; he loves her more, she loves him less. When their son is born, Maria gives him all her love and Russell is pushed aside. Wild, obsessed, Russell runs mad and his desperate love becomes a fire that consumes them all. “Mesmerizing . . . A powerful and affecting story about love’s most anguished and disturbing permutations.” —Timothy Hunter, The Plain Dealer

Conversations with John L'Heureux
  • Language: en

Conversations with John L'Heureux

This book presents a sequence of interviews between Dikran Karagueuzian and prolific fiction writer John L'Heureux that investigate the nature of writing fiction and the writer's need to write. This conversation includes a discussion of contemporary fiction, its virtues and vices, and its distinguished practitioners along with a personal perspective on writing novels as opposed to short stories. Karagueuzian and L'Heureux also explore L'Heureux's years as director of the Stanford Writing Program, detailing his relationship with some of his better known students, and offering insight into what can and can't be taught in a creative writing program.

The Beggar's Pawn
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

The Beggar's Pawn

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-08-04
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  • Publisher: Penguin

The final book by the noted novelist, short story writer, and teacher John L'Heureux: the story of an affable stranger whose appeals for money gradually upend the lives of an academic's family After a decades-long career as a critically acclaimed writer (including several novels with Viking and Penguin in the late '80s and early '90s) John L'Heureux had a late flowering in his career. In the year before his death in April of 2019, The New Yorker published three of his stories, and a collection of his short stories will be published by A Public Space in December 2019. His final novel, The Beggar's Pawn, is the story of a family whose chance meeting with a stranger while dog walking slowly bec...

An Honorable Profession
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

An Honorable Profession

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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Grove Press

From an authoritative and compelling author, "An Honorable Profession" is a "splendid novel" realized "superbly well" ("Newark Star-Ledger") about an ordinary New England school where a young English teacher's life is about to undergo the most serious of tests. A "New York Times" Notable Book.

A Woman Run Mad
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

A Woman Run Mad

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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Grove Press

On a mission for inner peace, which involved buying an expensive handbag for his wife, writer J.J. Quinn is too late and the bag walks out of the shop under the arm of a beautiful, aristocratic shoplifter. Quinn's curiosity leads him deep into mystery and danger.

The Handmaid of Desire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

The Handmaid of Desire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-07
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  • Publisher: Soho Press

Hilarious satire of academia set in a northern California university literature department.

The Clang Birds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

The Clang Birds

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El Niño Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 528

El Niño Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate

Comprehensive and up-to-date information on Earth’s most dominant year-to-year climate variation The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Pacific Ocean has major worldwide social and economic consequences through its global scale effects on atmospheric and oceanic circulation, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and other natural systems. Ongoing climate change is projected to significantly alter ENSO's dynamics and impacts. El Niño Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate presents the latest theories, models, and observations, and explores the challenges of forecasting ENSO as the climate continues to change. Volume highlights include: Historical background on ENSO and its societ...