Plume contemporary fiction

Robert Coover's wicked and surreally comic novel takes place at a chilling, ribald, and absolutely fascinating party. Amid the drunken guests, a woman turns up murdered on the living room floor. Around the corpse, one of several the evening produces, Gerald's party goes on - a chatter of voices, names, faces, overheard gags, rounds of storytelling, and a mounting curve of desire. What Coover has in store for his guests - besides an evening gone mad - is part murder mystery, part British parlor drama, part sly and dazzling meditation of time, theater, and love.

A freed slave escapes his bad debts in New Orleans by stowing away on a slave ship en route to Africa.

Een eenzame vrouw van middelbare leeftijd, wier dochters de deur uit zijn en wier man nooit tijd voor haar heeft, ontmoet een jeugdvriend als ze weer gaat studeren.

"Funny, frisky, and far out! Jennifer Stevenson's writing is naughty and irresistible."--Julie Kistler, author of ScandalTHE CURSE: Satisfy one hundred women or be trapped in a brass bed foreverLord Randall was a lousy lover in 1811, so his magician-mistress turned him into a sex demon. Lucky for him, his bed fell into Clay's hands. THE CON: Sex therapy for women on an antique brass "treatment bed"Clay has the perfect scam going, until that pesky, foxy fraud investigator Jewel comes sniffing around. Lucky for him, she has a soft spot for hunky con men.THE CHOICE: Sex demon or sex fraudster? Jewel is Randy's hundredth woman. Now he says he's her personal sex slave, and her case against the con artist is dissolving in a hail of hormones. Lucky for her, she's a tough cop with a lusty libido.From the Paperback edition.

It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself.

Every night after work, J. Henry Waugh immerses himself in his fantasy baseball league. As owner of every team in the league, Henry is flush with pride in a young rookie who is pitching a perfect game. When the pitcher completes the miracle game, Henry's life lights up. But then the rookie is killed by a freak accident, and this "death" affects Henry in ways unimaginable.--p. 4 of cover.

Description: 178 p. ; 22 cm. Contents: Two boys -- Vissi d'Arte -- Joy -- You're ugly, too -- Places to look for your mind -- Jewish hunter -- Starving again -- Like life.