by Walker Percy (1966)
Williston Bibb Barrett, the last gentleman of the story, is a displaced Southerner who has dropped out of Princeton owing to a nervous condition that his psychoanalyst associates with an inability to fit into groups. While living in New York City, our wayfarer-hero falls in love with a young woman he spies through a telescope...and sets out on a cross-country odyssey in search of home, identity, and the meaning of contemporary life.
Edwin O
The Kinsellas are a wealthy, Irish, Massachusetts family, dominated--at first--by the father, who insists that his sons enter politics to clean up a thoroughly corrupt political situation. One son is elected Governor, but political power causes the eventual break-up of the family.
Carson McCullers
Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account in this tale of change and changelessness, of death and the death-in-life that is hate. It is a tale, as McCullers herself wrote, of "response and responsibility--of man toward his own livingness."
John Updike
Marry Me is a celebrated work by John Updike (Double Pulitzer Prize Winner, National Book Award Winner), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.
Wole Soyinka
Collected plays is a celebrated work by Wole Soyinka (Nobel Laureate), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.