Ronald Firbank | The Flower Beneath The Foot | Set on the eve of a royal wedding at the fantastical court of King Willie and Her Dreaminess the Queen of Pisuerga, this is an absurd and often melanc
Leonard Bishop | Creep Into Thy Narrow Bed | A novel about the men and women caught in one of America’s most brutal underworlds – the abortion racket. At the center is Adam Michaels, a talented a
Jerome Barry | Malignant Stars | Signe, a handsome Valkyrie-type girl, is found dead, and the note beside her body is apparently a love letter from her roommate Lyn; the suspicion tha
Françoise Mallet-Joris | The Red Room | The sequel to this Flemish writer’s earlier The Illusions (sp) (1952) continues the conflict between young Helene and Tamara, now her step-mother for
Djuna Barnes | Nightwood | This is the story of Robin Vote and those she destroys–her husband the ‘Baron, ‘ their child Guido, and the two women, Nora and Jenny, who love her;
Elizabeth Bowen | The Hotel | A shy young girl sent to catch a husband at a fashionable hotel is, instead, captivated by a sophisticated woman. When the young Miss Sydney falls und
Vance Bourjaily | The Hound Of Earth | The file on Allerd Pennington, atom bomb scientist, begins with his disappearance from an Army installation in the south after Hiroshima, ends some ye
Vance Bourjaily | The End Of My Life | When Thomas “Skinner” Galt leaves Greenwich Village to volunteer as an ambulance driver with the British Army, he anticipates the adventure of a lifet