Georgeann Packard | Fall Asleep Forgetting | An elegant man, restaurant owner and poet, designs his end-of-life drama to be performed on a beach in early September. He fails to include, however,
Mary McMinnies | The Visitors | A diplomat’s wife abroad, fancying herself as Madame Bovary, attempts to use everyone around her for her own purposes. She has an affair with an Ameri
Olivia | Olivia | When Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under
Ann-Marie Macdonald | Adult Onset | From the acclaimed, bestselling author of 2 beloved classics, Adult Onset is a powerful drama about motherhood, the dark undercurrents that break and
Francine Prose | Lovers At the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 | Paris in the 1920s. It is a city of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, and discontent, where louche jazz venues like the Chameleon Club draw expats,
Pierre Louys | The Adventures Of King Pausole | Fine, funny, highly risque story of the king of a strange country, who has a thousand wives, like Solomon, and believes in freedom for everybody excep
Sarah Kilpatrick | Ladies’ Close | The author has devoted herself to the sexual last rites of the over-forty female (The Phoenix Hour; 1962. . . The Cool Meridian; 1965) With their atte
Colette; Willy | Claudine at School | Claudine is a curious, precocious, and rather spoiled girl growing up in the small town of Montigny. Colette’s first novel is about Claudine’s adventu
Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she
