Producer Theo has assembled a crack transatlantic team to launch the new musical Whatever Happened to Tomorrow? Liz, a successful British novelist, has written the book, her compatriot Mike the lyrics, legendary Broadway composer Bebe Kaiser has created the score and the staging rests in the capable hands of hit US director Stacey. What could possibly go wrong?2 women, 5 men

Gilbert Frankau (1884 - 1952) was a popular British novelist. He was known also for verse (he was a war poet of World War I) including a number of verse novels, and short stories. His novels, while having conventional romantic content, also contained material from his own conservative politics and meditations on Jewish identity in the climate of the times.

A romance story, told in the times it was written, that is mid-1920's. A good bit more imaginative and writted than the modern pulp romance novels of today.

Recounts the main events and relationships of Maugham's long life and analyzes most of the important plays, stories, novels, and essay collections, with a glance at film scripts and miscellanea

In You and Me, Belonging , Aaron Kreuter explores our contemporary world with insight, originality, and empathy. The stories in this debut collection are brimming with characters striving to fit in, to find their place in the world, to belong. A Jewish waitress has an affair with a Palestinian chef. A one-percenter self-destructs when he becomes obsessed with mastering the guitar. A university student stoned in Amsterdam hallucinates about Anne Frank on Birthright Israel. In the closing novella, a vanful of young women follows a fictional jam band across America, steeping in counterculture, music, and the ups and downs of the road. The collection is satiric and emotional, angry and hopeful, passionate and surprising. Like a wedding speech gone off the rails, like the best improvised music, You and Me, Belonging takes readers to some unexpected places.

This riveting novel tells of four men, inmates in a Nazi concentration camp, who survive the camp by amusing their tormentors.

Episodic novel of the life of a crippled, Jewish South African. Felix Greenspan is South African, Jewish and the victim of cerebral palsy -- like Lionel Abraham himself. Even ordinary, everyday accomplishments are difficult for him. He has his own heroes, and he finds love, rarely -- but he finds it, sometimes freely given, sometimes bought.

A richly textured, deeply atmospheric, and engaging novel set in a small Louisiana town in the 1950s, The Cajuns tells a captivating tale of love, life, death, and intrigue in a wonderfully bizarre yet corrupt culture. The descendants of French Canadians who migrated to southern Louisiana in the mid-eighteenth century, Cajuns are known for their fiery and passionate dispositions. In his remarkably moving new novel, Louisiana native Gus Weill presents an affectionate yet unstinting look at Cajun culture in the small town of Richelieu -- a world in which the mix of promiscuity, ribald humor, extreme violence, and devout Catholicism is a way of life. Bobby Boudreaux is the sheriff of Richelieu, where the only laws people respect are those that dictate how much pepper goes into the stew and, of course, the edicts of the Catholic Church. It was not a job Bobby wanted -- in fact, once out of school, his dream had been to escape into the larger world as fast as he possibly could. But life -- and a strong-willed father -- got in the way. On most days being parish sheriff is not that demanding. Yes, laws get broken, but no one else seems to mind, so why should he? Thus, when Ti Boy Brouliette, an altar boy and an all-around good kid, dies in a mysterious gun accident, Bobby's only official action is to join the townsfolk who congregate at the home of the family, offering comfort to the grieving parents. What he doesn't realize, though, is that his life -- and that of everyone in Richelieu -- is about to change forever. Among those gathered at Ti Boy's home is Ruth Ann Daigle, a beautifully sexy and worldly young woman who has returned to her hometown to help out her ailing father, who runs the local newspaper. Ruth Ann intimates to Bobby that she is not convinced that Ti Boy's death was an accident and, as a reporter for the paper, she intends to investigate. Bobby, annoyed by the suggestion that he's not doing his job, is afraid that Ruth Ann may be right. He also fears that Ruth Ann's arrival in Richelieu marks the end of a way of life he has come to depend on -- for not only does she threaten to challenge tradition, she has also awakened in him a sexual need that had grown dormant over the years, and soon his marriage is threatened as well. Against this rich and vivid background, populated by a cast of colorful characters, Gus Weill has crafted a fascinating and compelling tale of a distinctive way of life threatened by scandal and of a unique culture on the brink of dramatic change.

NY 1983 first American edition. Fromm. Hardcover. In English. Large octavo, 547pp. Fine in Near Fine DJ. No ownership marks. Historical novel of Germany in early twentieth century.

With the sweep of Sophie's Choice and search for identity of Everything is Illuminated, Reparations is the story of Molly Rose, an innocent catapulted from the streets of New York into the bombed out cities of Austria and Germany at the end of World War II. This is her story, a story of circumstance and choices, survival and strength, love and betrayal. in the early years in Europe, Molly meets stateless Jews in Austria and Germany. They become her European family. Slowly, they begin to tell their secrets of horror under the Nazis: mutilation, experimentation, rape, torture, state-induced abortions, relentless cruelty and death. Some turn to smuggling goods, gold bullion and loose silver, to Spain and Italy. Molly and Jacob join them, driving across borders in a specially made car. Molly has another quest as well: Molly wants a baby for herself and for the surviving Jewish women experimented on by Nazi doctors. Molly wants to undo the wrong done to her sisters by the ultimate affirming act: Molly wants to create new life.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ... For if Triquette be rather kind and frail Than wise; and if Chartreuse's cloying green, Enmixed with Moet from the frozen pail, Quickens my hero's blood; 'twere well to screen, From vulgar gaze, those lips and hands adoring... Moreover, others' love-affairs wax boring. 'Mais sois done sage!' the clinging lips implore; The hands unclasp; and jarring grind the brakes. A deferential porter swings the door. 'Merci, monsieur'--the sphinx-like chauffeur takes The proffered coin; anew his engines roar; Soon in some brasserie his thirst he slakes. But they, across the carpet's yielding pile, Pass to their loge along the crowded aisle. In regal state, observed of stage and stall, They sit to watch Arlette d'Orgere displaying Her shapely hose; or hear De Sousa call The circling pigeons from their fluttered straying; Sharp on their ears the cadenced couplets fall, That twit Lepine with Steinheil's shrouded slaying; Anon, the butt of truly Gallic quips, Adown the boards a phantom Sarah trips. For them the Apaches ply the mimic strife; L'ami de Madame emulates Asmodeus; And, keen as razor-edge of surgeon's knife, Cuts the appalling persiflage of Claudius. (Whereat the gaping Briton's scholar-wife, 'Tom, dear, come home! the show is simply odious.' They rise--and lo! or e'er she leaves her seat, The final chorus blares its tuneful beat.) Compere and Commere make their parting bow; The curtain drops upon the packed coulisses. The footlights darkle sudden; and now, Attendants claim their petit benefice--Paid with good grace, if earned none knoweth how. Broods over box and parterre, sheeted peace. Without, the Place Blanche hums, and pampered poupees Whirl, taxi-borne, to amicable soupers. The choicest table at L'Abbaye Theleme, Reserved long since, awaits our turtles' ple...

8vo. Light shelfwear. Bump to tail of spine. Dw has light wear to edges. Npc.