Four ground-breaking, critically acclaimed literary novels, lost for decades, now back in print and in one ebook edition for the first time.
Cora Potts by Ward Greene
“Here is a success story more faithful to life that the average biography of an industrial leader and as purely American as the history of Sam Houston or Daniel Boone” Saturday Review of Literature
Cora Potts was born “poor white trash” in a small town in the deep south. But she uses her beauty, cunning, ambition and pure ruthlessness to escape her destiny, to survive against adversity, and rise from poverty to wealth, in a uniquely American success story that’s shocking in its raw, naked intensity.
The Compassionate Tiger by Hunton Downs
“A tale of intrigue and violence…if you like a yarn of high adventure in exotic lands, tough and brawny heroes, and sex in heavy doses, this fills the bill.” Hackensack Record
An ancient, Vietnamese parable tells of a tigress who attacks her own cubs…and if the cubs don’t fight back, she kills them out of compassion. Because she knows a cub must learn to kill…or be killed. Soldier-of-fortune Daniel King, also a former male escort, realizes the parable is the key to the cut-throat world of Vietnam in 1954. To survive, King must outwit Mossard, a rich plantation owner who has hired him as a bodyguard… and who constantly plays both sides of every conflict. But so do Mossard’s wife Charlotte and his beautiful mistress Thi-Tuyet, who both lure King into their beds. King must walk on the razor’s edge of death and betrayal in a world of non-stop greed and sudden violence…or die.
Sense and Sensuality by Sarah Salt
“With Sense and Sensuality, Sarah Salt takes her place as an arresting and important figure among contemporary English authors. Her deft synthesis of many manners gives her novel a magnificent sweep and pace and at the same time a broad range of overtones.” New York Times
The story of Richard and Laura, a young, sophisticated, upper middle class, married couple pushing the boundaries of morality in the 1920s London, enjoying the nightlife while leaving their children to be raised by their servants. Richard is a publisher and intellectual, while Laura enjoys the benefits of their unspoken “open marriage” to romance other men. But soon their infidelties, and the harsh, inescapable realities of their time, come crashing down on them, threatening to destroy their seemingly perfect lives.
Send Me Down by Henry Steig
“One of the most important fictional contributions to the social history of the United States.” Boston Post
Frank and Pete Davis were born with musical talent, blazing ambition, and a shared dream of becoming musicians…but their skills, their demons, and their desires would take them on very different paths and into big money, brutal competition, fast women, naked ambition, sudden violence, and beautiful music. One brother chooses the safe, conventional route through college, educating himself in music, and becoming a bandleader, the King of Swing… while the other hits the road with his sax, moving in the jazz underworld of roughneck bars, shady dance halls, and eager women…their two lives converging again in an explosive, emotional climax that could destroy them both.
Henry Steig, Hunton Downs, Sarah Salt, Ward Greene /
Anthologies, Jazz Fiction, Literary Fiction
