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A dark, twisted version of "The Bridges of Madison County."
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">i>The deck has always been stacked against you. Then an attractive woman promises love, respect, employment, and a home. Wouldn't you be hooked? Jango Jacks is. /i>Jango is a fifty-three-year-old Korean War vet, itinerant worker, and sweet-natured fellow from Kentucky. On a hot August day in 1984, he lands in the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania, pockets empty, hungry, and in need of a job. After answering an ad for a farmhand, he is hired by a recent widow, Audrey Dalton, and is immediately charmed by her; surpr | |  | | Fabulous! An Opera Buffa
“A campy, hilarious, fast-paced indulgence that’s addictively entertaining…Dynamic, colorful characters add flair to a story full of snappy dialogue and rapid-fire action. The book’s tone is primarily one of effervescent joy, but Egan also manages to incorporate serious themes of personal identity.”—Kirkus Reviews
A talented opera singer, Gilbert Eugene Rose, moonlights as a drag queen and diva divine, Kiri De Uwana, in order to pay his rent. However, Gil is dying to become famous on the New York operatic stage; unfortunately, he might get his wish when he lands lead roles as a soprano and tenor in separate productions and is also hired to sing Handel for a dangerous female gangster who is at war with the producer of one of the operas. Suddenly, happy-go-lucky Gil finds himself stranded in the middle of Mobster Boulevard, aflutter in heels, wigs, and dresses, with only his wits for protection and a n | |  | | Fog and Other Stories
The 23 stories in the collection deal with the metaphorical concept of fog as a state produced by grief, mental illness, love, anger, dementia, pain, prejudice, or dreams and how the human being refracts reality through these diffused prisms. Protagonists struggle with psychological and physical distortions that lead them down problematic paths, whether due to jealousy or desire in the case of lovers or hypothermia experienced by a fallen mountain climber. In the story, “Fog,” set in Ireland, the narrator encounters the real thing.
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A young artist, Jenny Kidd, attends a masked ball in Venice and meets the seductive Caterina Barbon and her brother, Sebastiano.
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Set in 1959 on the shores of New York’s Lake Ontario, fourteen-year-old Charlene Beth Whitestone has been deserted by her parents, leaving her in the custody of her grandfather, C.B. Although he loves Charlie, he is a charming con artist, moonshiner, and religious fraud who inducts her into his various enterprises yet also encourages her dreams of becoming a writer. When C.B. suddenly dies, Charlie is left alone and must use her wits and resourcefulness to take charge of her life, all the while wrestling with the morality of continuing her grandfather’s schemes. When a handsome cowboy-stranger, Blake, arrives, he insinuates himself into C.B.’s religion business and into Charlie’s heart. Despite her resistance, Blake mounts a lucrative PR campaign, touting Charlie as an “oracle” and arranging for her to perform miracles.
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A fresh twist on a triangular relationship. A novel about compassion, generosity, love, selfishness, grief, bravery, and sacrifice.
Psychotherapist Beth Lynch makes a sojourn to Cape Cod to deal with her impending demise from pancreatic cancer. At the beach, she encounters an incandescently handsome man, who is mourning the death of his husband. They find solace in a tender affair until Bess' son arrives and detonates the fragile calm. The dynamics between these three play out against Bess' awareness that her cancer is metastasizing and her concerns about dying with independence and grace. Told with lyricism and a touch of magical realism.
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" Egan's story is for anyone contemplating the meaning of de | |  | | The Ungodly Hour
Mystery and Romance in Mykonos.
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