The muteness of an Aleut woman intrigues a scientist in Alaska, and her disappearance calls up desperation within him. An incendiary tale set against the landscape of the Great North, this novel merges the enchantment of myth with a taut and chilling story of erotic compulsion.

Making use of recent feminist critical theory, Doane considers Gertrude Stein's modernist preoccupation with narrative silence in her early novels. She demonstrates the effects of this preoccupation on Stein's literary development, from the conventionality of her first novel, Q.E.D., through Fernhurst and Three Lives, to the radical transgressions against narrative intelligibility in The Making Of Americans. Doane, contending that Stein's ultimate revolt against traditional modes of discourse is directly attributable to her position as a woman writer, effectively elaborates the possibilities of creating an alternative feminist discourse and explores the ways in which gender may contribute to meaning.

Eine erfolgreiche, einsame und verschlossene Konzertpianistin, die sich nur durch die Musik auszudrücken vermag, erinnert sich: als die deutschen Besatzer den Juden de Leon abführen, bleiben ihr von ihrem Klavierstundenglück nur die Notenbücher.

Lula grows up in a racially mixed family in the peaceful village of Tamarind Grove, Guyana, during the 1970s, until the repressive regime of Guyana's dictator spreads its tentacles into the town as tensions among the villagers begin to fester. A first novel. 17,500 first printing.

Recollections of Anaïs Nin presents Nin through the eyes of twenty-six people who knew her. She is the unconventional, distant aunt; the thoughtful friend; the owner of a strangely disarming voice; the author eager for attention yet hypersensitive to criticism; the generous advisor to a literary magazine; the adulteress; the beautiful septuagenarian; the recommender of books--the contributors elaborate on thses and many other perceptions of Nin. Readers of this book will meet one of the most enigmatic literary women of the twentieth century.

Kleine Alltagsgeschichten aus einem abgelegenen Dorf im Süden von Irland, wo die Autorin als Posthalterin und Besitzerin eines Dorfladens eine wichtige Persönlichkeit darstellt.

All those things that matter-friendship, love, trust, happiness, and sacrifice-seem to matter all the more at Christmas time. In this wonderful illustrated anthology for older children such themes are considered through thirty stories, both old and new, to present a wide-ranging view of Christmas and its celebrations.

Desperate for marriage and motherhood but impossibly in love with the wrong man, real-estate agent Patty Hansen comes up with an ingenious, if offbeat, solution to accomplishing her goals. By the author of Talk Before Sleep. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

A multigenerational saga chronicles the intertwined lives of the multi-ethnic residents of Dream Street in a town called Place, following one family from the Deep South of 1895, to rural Oklahoma and the industrial Midwest.