Search Results: Titles starting with H from Ivy Court Books

Dunne launches a sharply moving examination of a family at once blessed with money and talent and scarred by suicide and other sorrows... A freewheeling investigation of his past after a doctor tells him he is a "candidate for a catastrophic event".

'Ackroyd makes an intense and memorable logic of such phantasmagoria, in a novel remarkable for power, ingenuity and sublety alike'.
London Review of Books

'Amis is immaculate as a comic stylist... irresistible'.
Daily Telegraph

The most public screwing in the history of the business!
The rise of Jon Peters, a former hairdresser, seventh-grade dropout, and juvenile delinquent, and his soulless soulmate, Peter Guber - and all the sex, drugs and fistfights along the way.
Sixteen pages of original black & white photographs.

'Bukowski's voice is insistent and affirming but it also has the humble durability of someone who won't stay down... His stories help keep people alive'.
Independent

[Black & White photo of Greene by Karsh of Ottawa on back cover]
Set in a provincial Argentinian town, Graham Greene's novel takes place in that bleak country of exhausted passion, betrayal and absurd hope that he has explored so precisely in such novels as The Power and the Glory and The Comedians.

Introduction in English - Play text in FRENCH
Huis Clos was first performed in 1944, a year later than Les Mouches, and presents many of the main ideas of Existentialism.
Both plays include direct reference to two major preoccupations of contemporary France: the quest for liberty, and the problem of having to live in the stifling atmosphere of a Hell created by others.