Er galt als der deutsche Lester Bangs, legte sich nicht nur mit Heinz-Rudolf Kunze an, verehrte Buddy Holly und schrieb sich verruckt. Wolfgang Welt war ein Kind des Ruhrgebietes, genauer gesagt des Bochumer Arbeiter-Stadtteils Langendreer. Ab Anfang der Achtziger Jahre schrieb er unverschamt subjektive Plattenkritiken in diversen Stadt- und Musikmagazinen, beschrieb ungeschminkt die Lebenswirklichkeit im Pott, setzte sich mit Literatur und Poli ...
Jonathan Buck steht am Bahnsteig nach Berlin, er wartet auf den Zug. Die Mutter seines Jugendfreundes Strippe will ihn dringend sprechen, und es gibt keine Ausflucht mehr. Denn Strippe ist tot, und seine Mutter will von Jonathan horen, was war und was jetzt werden soll. Die jungsten Tage erzahlt die Geschichte einer Freundschaft, die immer an die Grenzen ging, erzahlt von Aufbruch und Ubermut, die kein Ma? kannten. Ein Roman zwischen Hamburg und ...
"Marten's powerful novel focuses on a man trying to put the shards of his life together…Fans of Chuck Palahniuk and Jim Thompson, in particular, should take note." —Roberta Johnson, Booklist (starred review) Eugene Marten's In the Blind takes readers through a keyhole and shows it to be a tunnel, a cave – a way through to a hard-earned light. The speaker in this astonishing novel has been released from the boiler room dark of ...
“ The Magician’s Study is a sparkling tour de force. Seamon leads us through the odd memorabilia belonging to Robert ‘The Great’ Rouncival and along the way gives us his marvelously bizarre and convoluted biography. . . . If anything is more astounding than Rouncival’s trickery, it’s the endless inventiveness of the author.”—Eugene Mirabelli ...
The last time I saw my brother's foe, he was getting punched in the nose for bedding my brother's girl-who wasn't really my brother's girl. Now he's on his knees, looking up at me, and I can't help but smile. When the sinfully sexy man says hello, I say hello back. It's the right thing to do after all. But when he asks me to take a ride with him, I know I should refuse. Fresh out of a messy breakup, I'm no ...
Twister Malone and Chuckaluck Thompson are making their way through a West Texas canyon when they smell death. Finally, the two emerge onto the mesa, where they encounter the site of a massacre. A whole family of deer lies dead around a small pond, their skeletons bleached by the Texas sun. Someone has poisoned the water hole. Then a rider comes around the corner, rifle in hand, and gets the drop on Twister and Chuckaluck. The Widow Kelso is a h ...
NAIST SANTAZEERITI JA MEELITATI VOODISSE, ET TEHA TALLE LAPS! Itaalia rikkur Luciano De Santis on igas mottes vapustav: tal on voimu, ta on edukas ja tal on naistele havitav moju. Nuud on Lucil vaja morsjat ja ta on… ...
The Columbia space shuttle and its contents rain down on the people of Kiser, Texas, in Kathryn Schwille’s imaginative debut novel set six weeks before the invasion of Iraq. What Luck, This Life begins in the aftermath of the space shuttle’s break-up, as the people of Piney Woods watch their pastures swarm with searchers and reporters bluster at their doors. A shop owner defends herself against a sexual predator who is pushed to new boldness af ...
Set amid the perils of illegal border crossings, The Iguana Tree is the suspenseful saga of Lilia and Hector, who separately make their way from Mexico into the United States, seeking work in the Carolinas and a home for their infant daughter. Michel Stone s harrowing novel meticulously examines the obstacles each faces in pursuing a new life: manipulation, rape, and murder in the perilous commerce of border crossings; betrayal by family ...
