When a mysterious book, The End of Professor Salamandra, starts circulating around Southern State University's Manhattan campus, it's immediately apparent the professor in question is really the verbose Albie Mandragore. Suspicions arise that Mandragore's longtime rival, Charles Greenfield, is the author-their long-standing family feud stretches from pre-war Vienna to New York City of the seventies. Yet no one at the university is spared from gossip, betrayal, and romantic confusion by David Rubin's pen in this insightful, page-turning tale.
When a mysterious book, The End of Professor Salamandra, starts circulating around Southern State University's Manhattan campus, it's immediately appa...
Alex Tanner is a Professor of Classics at Yale University. A previous run for office in Connecticut bore no fruit, though he still maintains a connection with politics. For this reason he's invited onto the Golden American, a luxury boat that, unbeknownst to him, is filled with potential donors for his former college friend's bid for President. Deceit, murder, and a poisonous snake on the loose-well, many snakes, in a sense-fill this adventurous, nail-biting voyage. David Rubin displays an inimitable grasp of high society and all its follies in this page-turning epic that stands up perfectly...
Alex Tanner is a Professor of Classics at Yale University. A previous run for office in Connecticut bore no fruit, though he still maintains a connect...
This collection of three short stories features David Rubin's keen insights into human nature by following a young Robert Dallary from the Florida coast to Manhattan, where he enters the elite social circle of his uncle, Frank. In 'Cerberus Shoals' we find a broke Robert gaining employment on a small boat smuggling questionable goods. His interactions with the captain, Tote Walmus, and his not-so-faithful wife, Georgie, along with her dependably drunk father, Poley, carry this adventurous story along. Robert receives many initiations en route to his destination. In 'Princess Nashreen at Home'...
This collection of three short stories features David Rubin's keen insights into human nature by following a young Robert Dallary from the Florida coa...
