Once upon a time, there hailed a man from Memphis, a modern day adventurer with a Confederacy of Dunces aiming to bring him down. His enemies: a former high school friend turned cokehead, a lie-mongering newswoman who fiends for sex and unearned money, a pistol-packing homosexual with a badge and a deadly axe to grind and an escaped convict lusting for revenge. Bruin's Wake is the story of Paul Bruin, an enigmatic character who trapses from one adventure to the next. Horseshoe Lake, Arkansas. 201 Poplar. Florida State University. Oxford, Mississippi. They're all stops on the road leading back...
Once upon a time, there hailed a man from Memphis, a modern day adventurer with a Confederacy of Dunces aiming to bring him down. His enemies: a forme...
It's Monday during the autumn season. This week she turns seventeen. She knows that she's not happy and is uncertain about her future. By Friday, her life will be turned upside down. But for now, life for Vanessa Carlton in Hill Valley, a suburb of Portland, Oregon, isn't all that it's cracked up to be. She has a boyfriend, is getting a car, and life should be good. But many things in her life are amiss. Her biological father has contacted her. Never having met him and not knowing his name, she is nevertheless determined to meet him. At the same time, things are getting weird in the...
It's Monday during the autumn season. This week she turns seventeen. She knows that she's not happy and is uncertain about her future. By Friday, h...
