J.R. Salamanca

• Nov-1984
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LILITH is a powerfully drawn portrait of innocence corrupted by evil—an evil so brilliant, so beautiful, so imaginatively conceived that even its violence and amorality have a fantastic splendor of their own. This is the evil of Lilith, a wild...

• Feb-1986
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The first book in thirteen years by the acclaimed author of Lilith and A Sea Change, Southern Light is a major American novel, a haunting love story that has the lyrical density and symbolic resonance of a great poem.Southern Light tells the story of...

• Aug-2001
• / Literary
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In That Summer''s Trance his subject is betrayal, both of oneself and of others, in a culture of material rewards. It is an unforgettable story of one actor outdone by another, and it tells us more about role-playing, and the theater of everyday life...

• Mar-2012
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The "lost country" of the title is the familiar country of innocence and security known as youth---a country we have all known and which, occasionally, in a book like this one, we are able to rediscover.The Lost Country is the story of a boy, Jim Bla...

• Mar-2012
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It is J. R. Salamanca's special gift to create in his novels a world of feeling---in The Lost Country, a pastoral world; in Lilith, a world of fever and dementia; here, a romantic and loving world corrupted by the death of desire. The story of a marr...

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