by Joyce Carol Oates (1994)
What I Lived For by Joyce Carol Oates is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
Carol Shields
This is the poignant story of Daisy Goodwill, twentieth-century pilgrim, from her calamitous birth in Canada to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Struggling to find her place in the world, she listens and observes, becoming a witness to her own life and death in this rich tale that reflects and illuminates our own unsettled era. ~from the back cover
John Updike
Listening for God is a celebrated work by John Updike (Double Pulitzer Prize Winner, National Book Award Winner), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.
Hermann Hesse
Wandering is a celebrated work by Hermann Hesse (Nobel Laureate), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.
Jerzy Kosiński
Jerzy Kosinski's vision of moral and sexual estrangement captures the disturbing undercurrents of modern politics and culture. In this novel, distinctions are eroded between oppressor and oppressed, perpetrator and victim, narcissism and anonymity. Kosinski portrays men and women both aroused and desensitized by an environment that disdains the individual and seeks control over the imagination in this provocative work.