New Releases by Paula Fox

"The best first novel I''ve read in quite a long time...A merciless uncovering of the exurban wastelands of the spirit." --New York Review of Books

One of The Atlantic''s Great American Novels One of the New York Times'' 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years "A towering landmark of postwar Realism...A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved." —David Foster Wallace Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a stray, perhaps rabies-infected cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague the Bentwoods'' lives, revealing the fault lines and fractures in a marriage—and a society—wrenching itself apart. First published in 1970 to wide acclaim, Desperate Characters stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller''s craft in postwar American literature — a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with " Billy Budd, The Great Gatsby, Miss Lonelyhearts, and Seize the Day."

Liam''s father has AIDS, and his family cannot talk about it until Liam reveals a secret that he has tried to deny ever since he saw his father embracing another man at the beach.

A novel of distinction about a boy whose father is dying of AIDS.

Liam woont in New York bij zijn moeder; met zijn vader die AIDS heeft, krijgt hij langzamerhand een beter contact.

Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver, and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.

Roman - relation parent-enfant - vagabondage - assistance sociale.

Eight-year-old Maurice''s struggle to protect his bedroom full of treasured junk from unsympathetic parents undergoes a transformation when the family moves to the country.

Only his strange great-aunt seems to understand the thoughts of a boy who has spent his life concealing his emotions, on an eerie, snowy night after rescuing a dog that dislikes him.

Ten-year-old James skips school to go to his secret place, a deserted house, where he is found by three teenage boys who force him to join their dognapping ring.

Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.

Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.

Ethan is not allowed to walk across the street, so when his ball rolls away he devises a clever way to retrieve it.

A dog writes his recent master a letter to explain why he ran away, and in it tells of his life with different masters--a rancher, a shepherd, a wealthy Boston woman, a circus clown, an American boy, and a blind, elderly Frenchman.