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A Slipping-down Life by Anne Tyler
Category: Fiction | Series: Arena Bks.
In a Southern town, teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she carves his name on her forehead their two lives become entwined. The author also wrote
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
Category: Military | Series: Arena Bks.
'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his life. Arrested in Liverpool as an agitator for the IRA, he wa ...Show more
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig; T. Colchie (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Arena Bks.
Kiss of the Spider Woman is a graceful, intensely compelling novel about love and victimization. In an Argentine prison, two men share a cell: Molina, a gay window dresser who is self-centered, self-denigrating, yet charming as well; and Valentin, an articulate, fiercely dogmatic revolutionary haunted b ...Show more
The Clock Winder by Anne Tyler
Category: Fiction | Series: Arena Bks.
By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amateur Marriage. Having sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl. The Emersons - there are seven grown-up children - have a reputation for craziness and Elizabeth finds herself drawn into their dis ...Show more
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Category: Fiction | Series: Arena Bks.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ...Show more
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