Catalog Search Results
Language
English
Description
Picnic: A slice-of-life drama set in small town Kansas; a drifter drops in on his old college buddy, and falls for the buddy's girl.
Jeanne Eagels:The tragic career of a stage and screen star whose climb for the top pushed her over the edge.
Bell Book and Candle: A witch gets bored, and longs for a more 'normal' existence, only to fall in love with her upstairs neighbor.
Middle of the Night: A young woman is in a relationship with her boss, nearly...
102) Deadly drifter
Language
English
Description
A wild cross-country trip with a political revolutionary, this satire of American radicalism moves from psychedelic 60s Greenwich Village to New Age 80s California.
Author
Series
Colección compactos volume 36
Language
Español
Description
Entre exactitudes a las que querrían agarrarse y nebulosas que no quieren nombrar, cuatro personajes son convocados para hablar de uno de ellos, que también habla. ¿Versiones contradictorias? No. ¿Complementarias? Bah. El mundo de En el café de la juventud perdida no es un mundo que se pueda recomponer. Tiene algo de Escenas de la vida bohemia, claro, pero el libro que más cita es Horizontes perdidos, la invención de Shangri-La, donde el tiempo...
104) A killing affair
Language
English
Description
In 1943, a widow from the isolated backwoods of West Virginia in Appalachia takes in a young drifter who eventually admits he killed her husband.
106) To Hell and gone
Language
English
Description
A crafty drifter and a widow rancher cross paths with a gang of murderous thieves on her land in the middle of nowhere, Arizona.
108) Światłość w sierpniu
Author
Language
Polish
Description
Akcja "Światłości w sierpniu" rozgrywa się w Jefferson, małym, dusznym miasteczku, którego mieszkańcy skrywają wiele mrocznych sekretów. Lena, będąca w dziewiątym miesiącu ciąży, trafia do niego, poszukując ojca swojego dziecka. Przypadek sprawia, że akurat w chwili jej przybycia w Jefferson szaleje pożar domu zamieszkiwanego przez Joe Christmasa, tajemniczego mężczyznę, o którym krążą liczne plotki. W tej rzeczywistości...
109) Vigil
Language
English
Description
A stranger appears in a remote New Zealand farmland at the exact time a farmer accidentally falls to his death. The mysterious outsider grows close to some of the dead man's family, to the point where he and the widow become lovers. But her eleven-year-old daughter, Toss, struggling to come to terms with the death of her father as well as her impending womanhood, believes the intruder to be the devil and sets about protecting her family and their...
112) Picnic
Language
English
Description
The story covers one Labor Day week-end in a small Kansas town, and tells about the impact a virile drifter has on the lives of several women in town.
113) Factótum
Author
Series
Colección compactos volume 2
Language
Español
Description
One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and...
Series
Library of America volume 268
Language
English
Description
Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories explore the terrors of family life, personality disorders, and horrors of the mind.
115) I am another you
Language
English
Description
"When Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang (Hooligan Sparrow) first came to America, Florida seemed like an exotic frontier full of theme parks, prehistoric swamp creatures, and sunburned denizens. As she travels wide-eyed from one city to another, she eventually encounters a charismatic young drifter named Dylan. Fascinated by his rejection of society's rules and unsure of his past, Nanfu follows Dylan with her camera on a journey that spans years, takes...