Delia's Heart

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Bret Easton Ellis

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money a place devoid of feeling or hope. Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.

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Fritz Leiber

Tor is pleased to present in print for the first time this short novel of cosmic dread and Lovecraftian horror. It is a story of science gone awry, of strange dimensions - of love and death. Kesserich is a lone scientist in his California home laboratory, plunging intuitively beyond the bounds of known science into the deepest mysteries of time and space. While in correspondence with the famous writer H. P. Lovecraft in 1936, the young Fritz Leiber drafted this eerie story. The manuscript was lost in the 1950s and has surfaced again only now, in the 1990s.

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Wendy Wasserstein

"A dinner party in an ornate mansion on the fashionable Upper East Side of Manhattan provides the scene for this witty and incisive play. Set in two eras - the early 1900s and our own Gilded Age - the characters move effortlessly from one period to the other. The host, a contemporary master of high-risk arbitrage, steps in and out of character as a robber baron of an earlier time. His guests of today include a Hollywood director, a not-so-cutting-edge sculptor, an online lingerie designer, an aggressive publicist, and an aging historian. Their counterparts from the past are the great man's rebellious son, a grand dame of New York society, the architect who built the mansion originally, and the maids and servants who maintain it. In this dance of rich storytelling and social commentary, it becomes strikingly clear that while old money has become new, little else has changed over the years. Children still rebel against their controlling parents, women still hope for love, and greed, snobbery, and angst persist. Black-and-white photos within text."--BOOK JACKET.

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Iris Rainer Dart

A hard-driving movie executive. A beloved soap opera diva. A screenwriter nominated for an Oscar. A well-known actress married to TV's King of Late Night. Four women who have led charmed Hollywood lives; four friends facing middle age in the youth capital of the world. Show business sucked them in when they were young, and now it's trying its best to spit them out. But these women aren't finished fighting tooth and nail - albeit bonded tooth and acrylic nail - to enjoy the success they spent their youth pursuing. Especially when one of them ends up in the intensive care unit, a victim of a stalker with a gun. The ritual "Girls' Night" they have always shared for refuge and laughter tonight becomes a painful vigil as three women watch their friend fight for her life. And as they wait and worry they do what they have always done to keep themselves sane: tell stories about themselves. Tales of love affairs, wonderful or hilariously awful; of professional triumphs and betrayals. Bittersweet anecdotes about the sexism and ageism all four have encountered - the pain it takes to make the world believe in the glamour that is Hollywood. The stories remind them of why they're fighting and let them laugh together and celebrate the friendship that has made it all worthwhile. . But beyond the hospital the stalker is still undetected, still obsessed, not just with the victim but with all four women. They have lived the sunny side of the California dream, and the attacker has been left out in the dark. Without the old bonds that have linked them for years, the women will not survive this chilling night.