Follows the trials and tribulations of a group of women who meet regularly to read and discuss books. Over the course of a year, each of these women becomes intertwined, both in the books they read and within one another's lives.
Direct and vivid in its telling of the details of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, the novel manages ultimately to deliver much more. It is the feelings that loom behind those daily events - the social alliances, the shopkeeper's exchange, the fact of death--that give Mrs. Dalloway texture and richness.
Coleman Silk, a New England professor forced into retirement on false charges of racism, has a fifty-year-old secret that Philip Roth attempts to decipher in this 1990s novel set against the backdrop of Presidential impeachment and professional witchhunts.
In trouble with her boss after a horrible accident leaves her injured and her best friend dead, former rock star-turned-DJ Helena Nicholls is relegated to the after-midnight graveyard slot and uses music to chronicle the story of her life for her listeners.
The budding romance between two teenaged children of two families who have been lifelong friends and neighbors culminates tragically in an abortive suicide pact, leading to a gripping courtroom drama.
Returning to the Heart Lake School for Girls as a Latin teacher to start a new life with her daughter, Jane is haunted by past tragedy and terrifying memories when she begins receiving menacing messages.
Friends Frankie, Geoff, Alex, Mike, and Liz agree to spend three days locked in a small, windowless cellar as a practical joke, but on the third day, they realize that their friend Martyn is not planning to let them out.
Jemima Weiss revisits what life was like growing up as the sensitive middle child in an eccentric transatlantic family with her gruff Jewish father, prophetic mother, charismatic older brother, and ethereal little sister.
