On the morning of his 45th birthday, a youthful-looking Prof. Of Eng. Lit. finds himself sitting cross-legged on an unfamiliar hotel bed. Once again his freckle-faced reddish-haired Irish concert-harpist wife has walked out on him.
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After twelve years a young woman returns home to settle accounts with her doformed twin sister Laura. But Laura is inexplicably absent, and the visiting daughter's parents are enmeshed in their own emotional warfare. With the deceptive simplicity tha...
Fugitive drug dealers and disincarnated spirits, vengeful lovers and rebel slaves, French executioners and runaway aristocrats populate the stories of this new collection by Ursule Molinaro. Representing Molinaro’s most exceptional short fiction of...
This novel tells the Homeric story of Troy from the perspective of the woman who was condemned not to be believed -- the perfect spokesperson for a contemporary feminist novel. Written with Molinaro's typical flair for concision, Cassandra is second ...
In a yearly ritual the citizens of ancient Athens chased a couple in wedding regalia through the streets under a hail of stones, to shouts of "Out with sickness and famine In with health and wealth " The broken bodies were left to decompose outside ...
Mara is a translator. In her Greenwich Village apartment she successfully renders her native Czech into best-selling English, until one fine night she notices alarming similarities between her own Prague childhood and a "brilliant novel" by a rising ...
Three short novels relate the stories of a mother who is incapable of loving her daughter, a man whose millennial canonization depends upon twenty testimonial letters, and an expatriate American who revisits her Southern roots....