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Balance Of Power (Kerry Kilcannon Ser. #3)
Par Richard North Patterson. 2003
An epic story that moves with force, passion, and authority, Balance of Power begins when President Kerry Kilcannon and television…
journalist Lara Costello at last decide to marry. But the momentous occasion is followed by an unspeakable tragedy—a massacre of innocents by gunfire—that ignites a high-stakes game of politics and legal maneuvering in the Senate, the courtroom, and across the country, which the charismatic but untested young President is determined to win at any cost. But in the incendiary clash over gun violence and gun rights, the cost to both Kilcannons may be even higher than he imagined.Cadáver exquisito (Mapa de las lenguas #Volumen)
Par Agustina Bazterrica. 2017
Premio Clarín de Novela, Ladies of Horror Fiction Award, uno de los mejores libros de ciencia ficción, fantasía o terror…
del 2020 según The Washington Post y finalista de los Goodreads Choice Awards Con más de 200.000 lectores en todo el mundo, traducido a 23 idiomas y derechos audiovisuales vendidos Una despiadada distopía en la que Agustina Bazterrica inspira, con el poder explosivo de la ficción, debates de suma actualidad La súbita aparición de un virus letal que ataca a los animales modifica de manera irreversible el mundo: desde las fieras hasta las mascotas deben ser sistemáticamente sacrificadas, y su carne ya no puede ser consumida. Los gobiernos enfrentan la situación con una decisión drástica: legalizando la cría, reproducción, matanza y procesamiento de carne humana. El canibalismo es ley y la sociedad ha quedado dividida en dos grupos: los que comen y los que son comidos. Marcos Tejo, encargado general del frigorífico Krieg, separado de su esposa y a cargo de su padre, es un oscuro burócrata. El día en que recibe como regalo una mujer criada para el consumo, las tentaciones lo transforman en una conciencia peligrosa de pliegues truculentos que lo llevará a transgredir las nuevas normas hasta límites que la sociedad desconoce. ¿Qué resto de humanidad cabe cuando los muertos son cremados para evitar su consumo? ¿Quién es el otro si, de verdad, somos lo que comemos? Reseña:«Novela mayor, cuya acción transcurre en el interior de una atmósfera densa e hipnótica en la que el lector queda atrapado desde las primeras líneas como si fuera uno de sus personajes».Juan José Millás «Horriblemente eficaz. […] Esta provocativa novela maneja con maestría un cuchillo de doble filo».The Guardian«Desde las primeras palabras de la segunda novela de la novelista argentina Agustina Bazterrica, Cadáver exquisito, el lector ya es el ganado de la fila, tambaleándose, primordialmente consciente de que este libro es una carnicería, y nada de lo que suceda a continuación va a ser bonito».New York Times Book Review «¿A qué precio es viable un mundo sin animales? Esa es la pregunta que se hace la autora argentina Agustina Bazterrica. [...] Con un arte perfectamente calibrado con la ironía, [ella] presenta un asombroso retrato de una humanidad dispuesta a hacer cualquier cosa para satisfacerse, incluso a expensas de sí misma».Le Monde «Una expresión mordaz y sin concesiones de lo que ocurre a diario en nuestra sociedad».La Nación «Con un lenguaje directo y despojado, Cadáver exquisito incursiona en los mecanismos siniestros de una sociedad distópica y caníbal. Las imágenes, tanto repulsivas como fascinantes, recuerdan por momentos a los cuadros violentos de Francis Bacon. La novela rodea al lector con una sensación de amenaza al volver visibles algunas prácticas oscuras y normalizadas de la vida actual».Pedro Mairal «Escrita con lenguaje minimalista, de alta precisión, Cadáver exquisito es una fábula impactante sobre la crueldad entre los seres humanos, aunque no desprovista de poesía».Clarín «Punzante historia caníbal. [...] Hay una verbalización incisiva e impiadosa de lo que sucede en la sociedad [...]. No hay eufemismos en Cadáver exquisito».Mª José R. Murguiondo, La Nación«Bazterrica delinea un lenguaje dúctil, universal; capaz de condensar el terror, el drama, la empatía y la desesperanza».Marvel Aguilera, Revista KunstWhat Are the Bugles Blowing For? (The Henri Castang Mysteries)
Par Nicolas Freeling. 2022
From an Edgar Award–winning British crime novelist, this unsettling homicide investigation features the unorthodox French detective Henri Castang.On a sultry…
summer night in a French provincial city, Insp. Henri Castang is summoned from his office at the Police Judiciaire to the site of a triple murder. The killer? A husband who came home unexpectedly to discover his wife and daughter in bed with another man. A crime of passion? Perhaps. Except the murderer in question, wealthy financier Gilbert La Touche, is cool and remote. His confession is as factual and bloodless as the crime is violent and deeply disturbing. As a detective, Castang must play by the rules to protect himself. But for an unconventional cop like Castang, that is virtually impossible. After all, there’s more to murder than a few corpses and a killer, and Castang will follow every twist until he gets to the heart of the evil at hand.Praise for Nicolas Freeling“Nicolas Freeling . . . liberated the detective story from page-turning puzzler into a critique of society and an investigation of character.” —The Daily Telegraph“Freeling rewards with his oblique, subtly comic style.” —Publishers WeeklyAn Ordinary Violence: A Novel
Par Adriana Chartrand. 2023
Terrible things happen side by side with the ordinary. Dawn hasn't spoken to her brother, Cody, since he was sent…
to prison for a violent crime seven years ago. But when Dawn's seemingly perfect life in the big city implodes, she is forced to return to her childhood home and the prairie city that still holds so much pain for her and her fractured family. Cody is released from prison with a mysterious new friend by his side, and Dawn must follow increasingly sinister leads to uncover their nefarious plans to access a dangerous supernatural network. As the lines between right and wrong blur and dissolve, Dawn recons with trauma and violence, loss and reclamation in an unsettling world where spirit realms entwine with the living—and where it is humans who carry out the truly monstrous acts.Edith Holler: A Novel
Par Edward Carey. 2023
The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse—and the mysterious figure who threatens…
the theater's very survivalThe year is 1901. England&’s beloved queen has died, and her aging son has finally taken the throne. In the eastern city of Norwich, bright and inquisitive young Edith Holler spends her days among the boisterous denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse will literally tumble down if she should ever leave its confines. Fascinated by tales of the city she knows only from afar, she decides to write a play of her own: a stage adaptation of the legend of Mawther Meg, a monstrous figure said to have used the blood of countless children to make the local delicacy known as Beetle Spread. But when her father suddenly announces his engagement to a peculiar, imposing woman named Margaret Unthank, heir to the actual Beetle Spread fortune, Edith scrambles to protect her father, the theatre, and her play—the one thing that&’s truly hers—from the newcomer&’s sinister designs.Teeming with unforgettable characters and illuminated by the author&’s trademark fantastical illustrations, Edith Holler is a surprisingly modern fable of one young woman&’s struggle to escape her family&’s control—and to reveal inconvenient truths about the way children are used.Las indignas
Par Agustina Bazterrica. 2023
Agustina Bazterrica, la autora de la inolvidable Cadáver exquisito, nos ofrece en esta nueva y esperada novela una distopía perturbadora,…
en la que resplandece la naturaleza oscura de una falsa divinidad, un dios abusivo, pero también la forma subrepticia, aunque poderosa, de la amistad. «Nadie le dice que no a la Hermana Superior. Nadie que quiera seguir viva». El mundo atravesó guerras por el agua y catástrofes ambientales. Los días pasan de gélidos a sofocantes en cuestión de horas, el aire está saturado de olores pestilentes y el cielo se cubre con nieblas espesas y pegajosas como telas de araña. En este presente desolador, confinadas en la Casa de la Hermandad Sagrada, varias mujeres sobreviven sometidas a los designios de un culto religioso y son objeto de torturas y sacrificios en nombre de la iluminación. Todas se encuentran bajo el mando estricto de la Hermana Superior, por encima de quien solo se erige “Él”. ¿Quién es Él? Poco se sabe; nadie puede verlo, pero desde las sombras las domina. Narrado a través de las anotaciones dispersas del diario en el que la protagonista lleva el registro de las ceremonias y de sus descubrimientos, toma forma este libro de la noche. Sus páginas se ocultan en recovecos secretos, acaso sin esperanza de liberación; apenas para que alguien sepa de ellas cuando ya no estén Sobre Cadáver exquisito:«Desde un primer momento, el lector de Cadáver exquisito se da cuenta de que se convirtió en un animal más, un ser que, a los tumbos, entiende que este libro en realidad es un matadero y nada de lo que está por pasarle será bonito».The New York Times Book Review «Horriblemente eficaz [...]. Esta provocativa novela empuña hábilmente un cuchillo de doble filo».The Guardian«Una sólida y escalofriante novela futurista con un inesperado final de cuento. Una alegoría sobre la sociedad caníbal en la que vivimos; una trama sorprendente y bien dosificada, escrita con una prosa afilada como un cuchillo».Jorge Fernández Díaz «Novela mayor, cuya acción transcurre en el interior de una atmósfera densa ehipnótica en la que el lector queda atrapado desde las primeras líneas como si fuera uno de sus personajes».Juan José Millás «Cadáver exquisito incursiona en los mecanismos siniestros de una sociedad distópica y caníbal. Las imágenes, tanto repulsivas como fascinantes, se suceden una tras otra y recuerdan por momentos a los cuadros violentos de Francis Bacon y de Carlos Alonso».Pedro MairalThe Dearly Beloved: A Novel
Par Cara Wall. 2019
&“This gentle, gorgeously written book may be one of my favorites ever.&” —Jenna Bush Hager (A Today show &“Read with…
Jenna&” Book Club Selection!) This &“moving portrait of love and friendship set against a backdrop of social change&” (The New York Times Book Review, Editor&’s Choice) traces two married couples whose lives become entangled when the husbands become copastors at a famed New York city congregation in the 1960s.Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart. Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily—fiercely intellectual, elegantly stern—after she tells him with certainty that she will never believe in God? And yet, how can he not? James, the youngest son in a hardscrabble Chicago family, spent much of his youth angry at his alcoholic father and avoiding his anxious mother. Nan grew up in Mississippi, the devout and beloved daughter of a minister and a debutante. James&’s escape from his desperate circumstances leads him to Nan and, despite his skepticism of hope in all its forms, her gentle, constant faith changes the course of his life. In The Dearly Beloved, Cara wall reminds us of &“the power of the novel in its simplest, richest form: bearing intimate witness to human beings grappling with their faith and falling in love,&” (Entertainment Weekly, A-) as we follow these two couples through decades of love and friendship, jealousy and understanding, forgiveness and commitment. Against the backdrop of turbulent changes facing the city and the church&’s congregation, Wall offers a poignant meditation on faith and reason, marriage and children, and the ways we find meaning in our lives. The Dearly Beloved is a gorgeous, wise, and provocative novel that is destined to become a classic.Girl in Snow: A Novel
Par Danya Kukafka. 2017
&“A perfectly paced and tautly plotted thriller…and an incredibly accomplished debut&” (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of…
The Girl on the Train and Into the Water), about a beloved high schooler found murdered in her sleepy Colorado suburb and the secret lives of three people connected to her.How can you love someone who&’s done something horribly, horribly wrong? When a beloved high schooler named Lucinda Hayes is found murdered, no one in her community is untouched—not the boy who loved her too much; not the girl who wanted her perfect life; not the officer assigned to investigate her murder. In the aftermath of the tragedy, these three indelible characters—Cameron, Jade, and Russ—must each confront their darkest secrets in an effort to find solace, the truth, or both. In crystalline prose, Danya Kukafka offers a brilliant exploration of identity and of the razor-sharp line between love and obsession, between watching and seeing, between truth and memory. &“A sensational debut—great characters, mysteries within mysteries, and page-turning pace. Highly recommended&” (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher novels). Hailed as &“Gillian Flynn of 2017&” (Yahoo! Style), compulsively readable and powerfully moving, Girl in Snow is &“engagingly told… its endearing characters&’ struggles linger in memory after this affecting work is done&” (The Wall Street Journal).The Distant Hours: A Novel
Par Kate Morton. 2010
From the New York Times bestselling author of Homecoming comes a haunting tale of long-buried secrets and the twists of…
fate that can alter lives forever.This enthralling romantic thriller pays homage to the classics of gothic fiction, spinning a rich and intricate web of mystery, suspense, and lost love. It starts with a letter, lost for half a century and unexpectedly delivered to Edie&’s mother on a Sunday afternoon. The letter leads Edie to Milderhurst Castle, where the eccentric Blythe spinsters live and where, she discovers, her mother was billeted during World War II. The elder Blythe sisters are twins and have spent most of their lives caring for their younger sister, Juniper, who hasn&’t been the same since her fiancé jilted her in 1941. Inside the decaying castle, Edie searches for her mother&’s past but soon learns there are other secrets hidden in its walls. The truth of what happened in &“the distant hours&” has been waiting a long time for someone to find it.Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel
Par Emily Austin. 2021
In this &“fun, page-turner of a novel&” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that&’s perfect for fans of Mostly…
Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor&’s mysterious death. Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she&’s there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace&’s old friend. She can&’t bear to ignore the kindly old woman who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can&’t bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace&’s death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence. With a &“kindhearted heroine we all need right now&” (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author), Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling and &“delightfully weird reminder that we will one day turn to dust and that yes, this is depressing, but it&’s also what makes life beautiful&” (Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl).Direction of the Road: A Story (A wind's Twelve Quarters Story Ser.)
Par Ursula K. Le Guin. 1975
The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K.…
Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "Direction of the Road" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.Brazzaville Beach: A Novel
Par William Boyd. 1990
A primatologist flees her broken marriage for a job in war-torn Africa in the renowned author’s “brilliant . . . stunningly magical” novel…
(Washington Post Book World).William Boyd’s classic Brazzaville Beach has been called a “bold seamless blend of philosophy and suspense . . . [that] nevertheless remains accessible to general readers on a level of pure entertainment.” (Boston Globe). When her marriage to a brilliant but unstable mathematician finally shatters, Hope Clearwater leaves England to join a team of primate researchers in a remote African country. Though she is there to study chimps, the greater challenge is her attempt to grapple with her own recent past—as well as her fellow scientists. And when she discovers evidence of supposedly peaceful chimps engaging in extreme violence, Hope finds herself drawn into a war of desperate egos and ruthless ambitions.Prime Meridian
Par Silvia Moreno-Garcia. 2017
“A subtle and powerful tale of Mars, movies, and Mexico City which stands amongst the best novellas of the past…
few years.” —Jonathan Strahan, LocusAmelia dreams of Mars. The Mars of the movies and the imagination, an endless bastion of opportunities for a colonist with some guts. But she’s trapped in Mexico City, enduring the drudgery of an unkind metropolis, working as a rent-a-friend, selling her blood to old folks with money who hope to rejuvenate themselves with it, enacting a fractured love story. And yet there’s Mars, at the edge of the silver screen, of life.It awaits her.El materialismo histérico
Par Xavier Velasco. 2023
¿Qué fue primero: el dólar o el deseo? Según las fábulas tradicionales, la ambición desmedida tiene un alto precio; de…
acuerdo a la experiencia tiene también un alto rendimiento. Sin asomo de culpa, escrúpulo o vergüenza, los personajes de El materialismo histérico se rinden al poder lujuriante de la avidez, a menudo "masticando una rabia hambreada de revancha"Forajidos crediticios, mercachifles robotizados, chantajistas creativos, chicas cuyo atractivo está en el precio, playboys cuya demanda está en la oferta, pacifistas enardecidos, dictadores beatleanos, árboles bolcheviques y guajolotes fundamentalistas: tal es la fauna regular de este libro cuyos capítulos desarman sistemáticamente nuestra incredulidad, a través de un lenguaje en esteroides plagado de un sentido del sarcasmo que al propio tiempo duele y gratifica: humor negro en su tinta, por el autor de Diablo Guardián.¿Qué fue primero: el dólar o el deseo? Según las fábulas tradicionales, la ambición desmedida tiene un alto precio; de acuerdo a la experiencia tiene también un alto rendimiento. Sin asomo de culpa, escrúpulo o vergüenza, los personajes de El materialismo histérico se rinden al poder lujuriante de la avidez, a menudo "masticando una rabia hambreada de revancha"Forajidos crediticios, mercachifles robotizados, chantajistas creativos, chicas cuyo atractivo está en el precio, playboys cuya demanda está en la oferta, pacifistas enardecidos, dictadores beatleanos, árboles bolcheviques y guajolotes fundamentalistas: tal es la fauna regular de este libro cuyos capítulos desarman sistemáticamente nuestra incredulidad, a través de un lenguaje en esteroides plagado de un sentido del sarcasmo que al propio tiempo duele y gratifica: humor negro en su tinta, por el autor de Diablo Guardián.Taft: A Novel
Par Ann Patchett. 2010
A New York Times Notable Book“As resonant as a blues song. . . . Expect miracles when you read Ann…
Patchett’s fiction.”—New York Times Book ReviewAn ex-jazz drummer wants nothing more than to be a good father in this moving family novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Dutch House.When John Nickel's lover takes away his son, Nickel is left only with his Beale Street bar in Memphis. He hires a young waitress named Fay Taft, who brings with her a desperate, dangerous brother, Carl, and the possibility of new intimacy. Nickel finds himself consumed with Fay and Carl's dead father—Taft—obsessing over and reconstructing the life of a man he never met.A stunning artistic achievement, Taft confirms Ann Patchett's standing as one of the most gifted writers of her generation and reminds us of our deepest instincts to protect the people we love.Before Your Memory Fades: A Novel (Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series #3)
Par Toshikazu Kawaguchi. 2022
The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe…
where customers can travel back in time.On the hillside of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan, Cafe Donna Donna is fabled for its dazzling views of Hakodate port. But that&’s not all. Like the charming Tokyo cafe Funiculi Funicula, Cafe Donna Donna offers its customers the extraordinary experience of travelling through time.From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Cafe comes another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of the cafe's time-travelling offer. Among some familiar faces from Toshikazu Kawaguchi&’s previous novels, readers will also be introduced to: A daughter who begrudges her deceased parents for leaving her orphaned A comedian who aches for his beloved and their shared dreams A younger sister whose grief has become all-consuming A young man who realizes his love for his childhood friend too lateTranslated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot and featuring signature heart-warming characters and wistful storytelling, in Before Your Memory Fades, Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?Meet more wonderful characters in the next captivating novel in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, Before We Say Goodbye, releasing November 14, 2023!Read the rest of the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Tales from the CafeD (A Tale of Two Worlds): A Novel
Par Michel Faber. 2020
&“Glorious. A story that will be found and enjoyed and dreamed about for years to come.&”—Neil GaimanA stunning modern-day Dickensian…
fable and a celebration of friendship and bravery for freethinkers everywhere.It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from language. First, it vanishes from Dhikilo&’s parents&’ conversation at breakfast, then from the road signs outside and from her school dinners. Soon the local dentist and the neighbor&’s dalmatian are missing, and even the Donkey Derby has been called off.Though she doesn&’t know why, Dhikilo is summoned to the home of her old history teacher Professor Dodderfield and his faithful Labrador, Nelly Robinson. And this is where our story begins.Set between England and the wintry land of Liminus, a world enslaved by the monstrous Gamp and populated by fearsome, enchanting creatures, D (A Tale of Two Worlds) is told with simple beauty and warmth. Its celebration of moral courage and freethinking is a powerful reminder of our human capacity for strength, hope and justice.Don't miss Michel Faber's lyrically woven and deeply evocative nonfiction debut, LISTEN, which relfects his lifelong passion for music of all kinds and will change your relationship with the heard world!The Body of the Soul: Stories (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
Par Ludmila Ulitskaya. 2023
A new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English &“[A] magnificent collection . . .…
[by] a writer of boundless tenderness.&”—Geneviève Brisac, Le Monde &“Centrifugal, pensive, often elusive stories by one of the greatest living Russian writers (and leading anti-Putinist). . . . The stories are marvels of economy and the unexpected twist, each a memorable tour de force. . . . A welcome introduction to the short fiction of an essential writer.&”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) While we can feel, know, and study the body, the soul refuses definition. Where does it begin and end? What does the soul have to do with love? Does it exist at all, and if so, does it outlast the body? Or are the soul and body really one and the same? These are questions posed by the characters who inhabit this book of stories by the award-winning Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya. A woman believes that the best way to control her life is to control her death. A landscape photographer wonders if the beauty he has witnessed can triumph over decay. A coroner dedicated to science is confronted by a startling physical anomaly, a lonely widow experiences an extraordinary transformation, a woman whose life is devoted to language finds words slipping away from her. In these eleven stories, artfully rendered into English by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Ulitskaya maps the edges of our lives, tracing a delicate geography of the soul.The Princess: The moving new novel about the young Diana
Par Wendy Holden. 2023
'Touching and distinctive . . . getting beneath the fairytale pomp and glamour' - Rachel Hore 'Fabulous behind-the-scenes royal drama…
. . . Riveting, revealing, an absolute must-read' - Imogen Edwards-Jones 'This delicate, sometimes wistful story will delight fans of historical fiction and British royalty' - Booklist 'A fresh perspective on a woman whom many people feel they already know' - Library Journal 'Diana is depicted as warm, empathetic and mischievous' - Mail on Sunday, Best New Fiction 'Fascinating' - Woman's Weekly 'Fictionalises Diana's life in riveting and tender detail' - Platinum 'Perfect for fans of The Crown' - Bella 'A compelling read' - Prima 'Scurrilous, funny, sharp, shot through with pathos' - Saga magazine, Pick of the Month 'A super-romantic royal wedding that was nothing like it seemed. Wendy delves beneath the glamour and public persona. Fascinating' - Woman magazine ___________The moving new novel about the young Diana.Diana believes in love. Growing up amid the fallout of her parents' bitter divorce, she takes refuge in romantic novels. She dreams of being rescued by a handsome prince.Prince Charles loves his freedom. He's in no rush to wed, but his family have other ideas. Charles must marry for the future of the Crown.The right girl needs to be found, and fast. She must be young, aristocratic and free of past liaisons.The teenage Diana Spencer is just about the only candidate. Her desperation to be loved dovetails with royal desperation for a bride.But the route to the altar is full of hidden obstacles and people with their own agendas.When she steps from the golden carriage on her wedding day, has Diana's romantic dream come true?Or is it already over?Another Side of Paradise: A Novel
Par Sally Koslow. 2018
“Koslow’s imagined account of the real-life affair between [F. Scott Fitzgerald] and the seductive expat is captivating.” —People magazineIn 1937…
Hollywood, gossip columnist Sheilah Graham’s star is on the rise, while literary wonder boy F. Scott Fitzgerald’s career is slowly drowning in booze. But the once-famous author, desperate to make money penning scripts for the silver screen, is charismatic enough to attract the gorgeous Miss Graham, a woman who exposes the secrets of others while carefully guarding her own. Like Fitzgerald’s hero Jay Gatsby, Graham has meticulously constructed a life far removed from the poverty of her childhood in London’s slums. And like Gatsby, the onetime guttersnipe learned early how to use her charms to become a hardworking success; she is feted and feared by both the movie studios and their luminaries.With his mentally-ill wife Zelda away in a sanitorium, Fitzgerald fell hard for Sheilah, who would help revive his career until his tragic death three years later. Working from Sheilah’s memoirs, interviews, and letters, Sally Koslow revisits their scandalous love affair and Graham’s dramatic transformation in London, bringing Graham and Fitzgerald gloriously to life with the color, glitter, magic, and passion of 1930s Hollywood.“A stunning, utterly captivating read.” —Kathleen Grissom, New York Times–bestselling author of The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything“Rich in historical detail, celebrity dish, and old-fashioned human drama.” —Good Housekeeping“You’ll be surprised by the nuance and new details that Another Side of Paradise brings to light.” —Meryl Gordon, New York Times–bestselling author of Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend“Intoxicating.” —Publishers Weekly