Author: Trace Farrell
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: ruins
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0814726852
ISBN-13: 9780814726853
Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the "gastronomical Elect," The Ruins is a black-eyed, Machiavellian fairy tale for adults, a gleeful cautionary discourse on ambition and ingratitude, and the penalties for disbelief in those forces within oneself. Like all fairy tales, it turns on subjection-the increasingly comic and catastrophic subjection of "our hero, Tom," a high-minded and half-starved shoeshine boy. Tom shifts for himself in a dank and vaguely apocalyptic city where "the days come and go in a flat, lurid tide, noon and midnight like sullen twins, so ind
Author: Scott Smith
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: ruins
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2007-07-31
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 030727828X
ISBN-13: 9780307278289
Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine.Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation–sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site . . . and the terrifying presence that lurks there.
Author: Leon Uris
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: ruins, god
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0061097934
ISBN-13: 9780061097935
A God in RuinsSpanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the riveting story of Quinn Patrick O’Connell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. But Quinn is a man with an explosive secret that can shatter his political amibitions, threaten his life, and tear the country apart--a secret buried for over a half century--that even he does not know...
Author: Scott Smith
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: vintage, ruins
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2008-03-25
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0307389715
ISBN-13: 9780307389718
In 1993, Scott Smith wowed readers with A Simple Plan, his stunning debut thriller about what happens when three men find a wrecked plane and bag stuffed with over 4 million dollars--a book that Stephen King called "Simply the best suspense novel of the year!" Now, thirteen years after writing a novel that turned into a pretty great movie featuring Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton, Smith is back, with The Ruins, a horror-thriller about four Americans traveling in Mexico who stumble across a nightmare in the jungle. Who better to tell readers if Smith has done it again than the undisputed Kin
Author: Bill Reading
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: ruins, university
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-10-30
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0674929535
ISBN-13: 9780674929531
It is no longer clear what role the University plays in society. The structure of the contemporary University is changing rapidly, and we have yet to understand what precisely these changes will mean. Is a new age dawning for the University, the renaissance of higher education under way? Or is the University in the twilight of its social function, the demise of higher education fast approaching? We can answer such questions only if we look carefully at the different roles the University has played historically and then imagine how it might be possible to live, and to think, amid the ruins of
Author: Walker Percy
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: ruins, love
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0312243111
ISBN-13: 9780312243111
Dr. Tom More has created a stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he embarks on an unforgettable odyssey to cure mankind’s spiritual flu. This novel confronts both the value of life and its susceptibility to chance and ruin.
Author: Binnie Kirshenbaum
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: novel, ruins, among, hester
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0393041522
ISBN-13: 9780393041521
A darkly comic novel with the moral power of Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader about love in the shadows of history. Born in New York in 1963, historian Hester Rosenfeld—very American and marginally Jewish—goes to Munich to research the life of Heinrich Falk and becomes his mistress. Born in Berlin in 1943, raised in the ruins of defeat by a generation of "murderers and cowards," Professor Falk is neither infamous nor famous—he is simply the German Everyman. Hester believes his life story could make for an important contemporary historical document—kitchen-table history. But as she u
