First published by Random House in 1980
La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and
Brandão is relentlessly harsh and raw
Julian Gough [Ireland: English] The Orphan and the Mob
blending social realism with lush modernist experiment
Once Upon a Time — a Floating Opera South America First published by Random HouseA celebration of the power of narrative, of the questions it must ask and can answer New York Times A celebration of the power of narrative, of the questions it must ask and can answer [It is] brilliantly conceived, elegantly written, bursting with life, profound in its understanding, bawdy and funny, and comic in the wisest and best sense of the word. New York Times John Barth, a moderately successful novelist just turned sixty, decides to take a