Beatrice And Virgil [may-10]

Beatrice And Virgil [may-10]
Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2010
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 0670084514

When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey--named Beatrice and Virgil--and the epic journey they undertake together.

Self

Self
Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2012-10-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307375633

A modern-day Orlando—edgy, funny and startlingly honest—Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer and traveller who finds his gender changed overnight.

The Widower's Tale

The Widower's Tale
Author: Julia Glass
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2011-07-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307456102

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Three Junes: Seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement—reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. But his routines are disrupted when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children, parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary life he has made in the three decades since the sudden death of his wife. With equal parts affection and humor, Julia Glass spins a captivating tale about a man who can no longer remain aloof from his community, his two grown daughters, or—to his great shock—the precarious joy of falling in love.

The High Mountains of Portugal

The High Mountains of Portugal
Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Canongate Books
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-02-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1782114726

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With nothing but a chimpanzee. A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes in search of an artefact that could unsettle history. A woman carries her husband to a doctor in a suitcase. A Canadian senator begins a new life, in a new country, in the company of a chimp called Odo. From these stories of journeying, of loss and faith, Yann Martel makes a novel unlike any other: moving, profound and magical. A New York Times Bestseller An Australian Independent Bookseller Bestseller #1 on The Globe & Mail's Bestseller List #1 on Toronto Star's Bestseller List #1 on Maclean's Bestseller List #1 on National Post's Bestseller List #1 on McNally Robinson's Bestseller List An ABA Indie Bestseller

Last Night in Twisted River

Last Night in Twisted River
Author: John Irving
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2009-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1588369005

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County—to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto—pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.” What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice—the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.

101 Letters to a Prime Minister

101 Letters to a Prime Minister
Author: Yann Martel
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0307402088

A compendium of 101 book recommendations from Booker Prize–winning author Yann Martel (Life of Pi) to Prime Minister Stephen Harper—each with an accompanying letter, together probing the question: what sort of mind, nourished by what, do we want our leaders to have? Politely and unfailingly, every two weeks for almost four years, Yann Martel sent Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper a book and accompanying letter. He completed the project in 2011 with 101 book recommendations. Now, from the mailbox of the Prime Minister’s Office to your bookshelf comes a list of essential reading for all Canadians. This largely one-sided correspondence from the “loneliest book club in the world” (Stephen Harper never personally responded to Yann Martel’s gifts) is a valuable compendium for bibliophiles and those who follow the Canadian political scene. Smart, subversive, signed, sealed, and now available to you . . . even if your address is not 80 Wellington Street.

Dante Studies

Dante Studies
Author: Charles Southward Singleton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 1965
Genre:
ISBN:

Journey to Beatrice

Journey to Beatrice
Author: Charles S. Singleton
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2019-12-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781421432649

Singleton attempts to restore the allegorical elements to the foreground of interpreting the Comedy.

A Season in Hell with Rimbaud

A Season in Hell with Rimbaud
Author: Dustin Pearson
Publisher: BOA Editions
Total Pages:
Release: 2022
Genre:
ISBN: 9781950774609

In pursuit of his brother, a man traverses the fantastical and grotesque landscape of Hell, pondering their now fractured relationship.