Jonathan Dee

"Gene Trowbridge, a sixty-five-year-old successful advertising executive, fills the days before his retirement assessing his past and considering the future. A deliberate and thoughtful man, Gene lives a solid, peaceful existence with his wife in a genteel Long Island suburb, watching on television the failure of his son Jack's professional baseball career and increasingly aware of his own displacement in a field dominated by the very young."--BOOK JACKET. "But a chance meeting with Albert Ferdinand, a reclusive neighbor who wins his regard and friendship, upsets the tenuous balance of Gene's world. From the scandal that comes to surround Ferdinand, Gene is brought face to face with the unimaginable depths of cruelty that lie well beyond his complacent suburban community. Spurred on by a persistent journalist and overwhelmed by self-doubt stemming from his instinctive liking and acceptance of a man of potentially indescribable evil, Gene is drawn into a suspenseful search for the truth about Ferdinand's past."--BOOK JACKET. "In The Liberty Campaign, critically acclaimed author Jonathan Dee has created one of the wisest and most memorable voices in recent fiction. When Gene is ultimately presented with a stark ethical choice and forced to reevaluate his judgment and his principles, Dee captures, with extraordinary precision and power, the vulnerable time in the life of an aging man when he falters, not sure that his own life experience has provided him with the ability to act. The Liberty Campaign is a riveting, multilayered portrait of an ordinary man whose moral universe is tested by a situation that defies the parameters of his decidedly American upbringing and sensibility."--BOOK JACKET.

"Mark Firth is a home builder in Howland, Massachusetts in the early 2000s who, after being swindled by a finanical advisor, feels opportunity passing him by. In the paranoid days after 9/11, a New York money manager, Philip Hadi, moves his family to Howland and hires Mark to turn his his house into a "secure location." When Howland's first selectman passes away suddenly, Hadi runs for office, and begins subtly transforming the town in his image. The collision of these two men and their very different worlds -- rural vs urban, middle class vs wealthy -- propels Jonathan Dee's new novel to a haunting conclusion. This is a novel that captures our fraught moment, but is timeless in its depiction of the American family"--

xii, 193 pages ; 18 cm

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"Five centuries after his birth Andrea palladio (1508-1580) remains the most significent figure in the history of Western architecture." "His exceptional buildings encapsulate the legacy of Italian Renaissance architectural practice while his celebrated treatise I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, in which he articulated his theory and understanding of architecture, has guaranteed his enduring influence." "Written by the leading authorities on the architect, Guido Beltramini and Howard Burns, the emphasis is on his buildings, his ideas and the people who played a part in their development. Palladio's drawings are shown in colour, with enlargements, to enable readers to explore his way of working." "This lavish catalogue has 320 pages, 300 illustrations and measures 30 x 24.5 cms."--Jacket.

Paul Soloway is an aspiring novelist who works in obscurity and dreams of fame - until fame is inadvertently thrust upon him in the form of a riot, a video camera, and a young black man named Victor Hartley. Caught in the violent confusion of a community uprising in Manhattan, Paul subsequently finds himself a random victim and reluctant hero, the object of desire at the center of a media circus, and the unwitting subject of intense negotiation among lawyers and movie executives whose own creative abilities threaten to put Paul's to shame. The tumultuous weeks that follow culminate in a devastating confrontation between black and white, literature and commerce, infamy and renown.