A Life In Words

A brilliant satire of mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, a teacher of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the rocky passages of […]

On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys […]

Tre berättelser, tre historier som blandar deckargenrens rekvisita med den moderna romanens identitetsproblematik. Tillsammans utgör de Paul Austers klassiker New York-trilogin, en redan mytomspunnen milstolpe i den amerikanska samtidslitteraturen. I första delen, Stad av glas, blir deckarförfattaren Quinn uppringd av någon som söker detektiven Paul Auster. Plötsligt finner han sig indragen i ett mysterium mer […]

The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time-an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence: a remote and secret compound where death […]