More joy in heaven is Morley Callaghan's gripping account of the tragic plight of young Kip Caley, a notorious bank-robber released early from prison and feted by society as a returning prodigal son.
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.
Jack McGill, divorced from Rachel and separated from his family for six years, begins to see his ex-wife and his former marriage through new eyes as he sits by Rachel's bedside waiting and hoping for her to wake from an accident-induced coma.
"In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard--having gained power and success as the mayor--finds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him."--back cover.
Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale "Iron John," in which a mentor or "Wild Man" guides a young man through eight stages of male growth, to remind us of images long forgotten -- images of a vigorous masculinity, both protective and emotionally centered.
