Vintage

This is a collection of six monologues by the master of one-man drama. Included are Sex and Death at the Age of 14, Booze, Cars, and College Girls, 47 Beds, Nobody Wanted to Sit Behind a Desk, Travels through New England, and Terror of Pleasure: The House. Also includes a preface by the author.From the Trade Paperback edition....

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel Garca Mrquez. As she follows Milkman from...

The Story of a MurdererAn acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind&'s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man&'s indulgence in his greatest passionhis sense of smellleads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime...

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