Corrie and Fee, two old cheesemakers on a small Irish dairy farm, get much-needed help from Abby and Kit, two lost souls seeking to carve out new lives in a place peopled with an eccentric cast of characters.
Nathan Carter, at loose ends after the death of his father and the failure of another romance, moves from Boston to Eden, Vermont, where he is befriended by cranky seventy-nine-year-old Wallace Fiske who tells him a story that helps Carter put his own life back in order.
Teenager Carla Elkins witnesses a triple homicide that might be drug related, but helping her mother Bell Elkins, the Raythume County, West Virginia, prosecuting attorney, could put her life in danger, even as it helps to repair their relationship.
The author shares his personal story of returning to Sul Ross State University to finish his senior year and play his final year on the university's football team, making him the oldest player in college football history.
a new translation : responses, contemporaries and other novelists, twentieth-century criticism
Balzac, Honor? de
1994
Presents an English translation of Balzac's 1835 novel in which Goriot, a loving parent, is willingly reduced to poverty so that he may satisfy the demands of his well-married but debt-ridden daughters, and includes a selection of twentieth-century criticism.
Hemingway's triumphant yet tragic story of an old Cuban fisherman and his relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream combines the simplicity of a fable, the significance of a parable, and the drama of an epic.
