Essays cover a variety of topics, from postmodern fiction and chaos theory to memory, imagination, and the arabesque

An acclaimed author offers a witty collection of essays inspired by his Friday muse--the nonfiction one--and covers a variety of topics, from postmodern fiction and chaos theory to memory, imagination, and the arabesque.

The letters of seven people, including a British gentlewoman who finds herself pregnant by her young American lover and a bachelor lawyer who enjoys incest on his final cruise in preparation for suicide, take readers on a journey through history

Tells the stories of a man's struggle with the idea of suicide and of a bed-hopping threesome brought together by a strange doctor-psychiatrist-mentor

Fourteen short literary experiments intended for perusal in sequence are set in contemporary society and classical Greece

George Giles encounters new people and ideas as he ascends from a goat farm to the position of Grand Tutor of the human university (view table of contents)

A parody of life in colonial America relates the adventures of Ebenezer Cooke who became the poet laureate of Maryland

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The distinguished author speculates on the future of literature and the literature of the future, looks back upon his own novels, and comments upon various aspects of writing

Twenty-eight-year-old Jacob Horner, historian Joe Morgan, and his wife Rennie are a desperate bed-hopping threesome brought together by a strange doctor-psychiatrist-mentor

Product Description: A landmark of postmodern American fiction, Letters is (as the subtitle genially informs us) "an old time epistolary novel by seven fictitious drolls & dreamers each of which imagines himself factual." Seven characters (including the Author himself) exchange a novel's worth of letters during a 7-month period in 1969, a time of revolution that recalls the U...read more

The story of a young associate professor of early American literature and her husband, a fifty-year-old ex-CIA officer, and their life aboard a cruising sailboat

George Giles encounters new people and ideas as he ascends from a goat farm to the position of Grand Tutor of the human university