Posts Categorized: Literary Fiction

The Jack Sheridan Reader: Four Full Novels By

The Jack Sheridan Reader: Four Full Novels Jack Sheridan's four powerful, acclaimed novels, set in the American west of the mid-20th Century, back in print for the first time in over 60 years, collected in one volume. 

THUNDERCLAP, PARADISE MOTEL, GIRL FROM TOWN, MAMIE BRANDON

The Charles Gorham Reader: Four Full Novels By

The Charles Gorham Reader: Four Full Novels Four powerful novels by Charles Gorham, out of print for decades, now collected in a single ebook edition.

"Gorham's novels, literary works with pot-boiler topics (prostitution, alcoholism, street crime), were known for their bluntness and realism." Michael Bronski, Pulp Friction

Quality By

Quality "She has written the most profound approach yet to the race issue. A superior piece of literature from all angles. Every word she writes is true." Birmingham News

Boston nursing school graduate Pinkey Johnson has blond hair, blue eyes and a secret-- she's actually black. She's managed to fit in naturally among her new friends in the North, but she never quite fit within the small, southern town she came from. But now, on the eve of marrying a white doctor, and forced to tell him the truth about herself, she returns to Mississippi, where she must face the racism and inequities that are a way of life for blacks in the south of the 1940s. And yet she stays, struggling to find both herself and her place in a world that's dangerously black and white.

Tell Me About Women By

Tell Me About Women Newsman Harry Reasoner's first and only novel, published in 1946.

Joe Wilson is a tough, cynical reporter whose life is all bourbon, beer and easy blondes. But then Maris Nordeen, warm-hearted, self-assured and golden blonde, blows into his life and changes everything, leading to a rollercoaster courtship, a whirlwind marriage  and then a slow, tortuous awakening to the harrowing reality of their young lives.

Wine of Life By

Wine of Life The monumental and unparalleled fictionalized biography of Honoré de Balzac – a volcanic talent, a savage libertine and one of the greatest literary figures of all time. This is Balzac’s incredible life story, from cradle-to-grave, from obscurity to fame, set against the dramatic, vividly-portrayed backdrop of 19th century France, shared from the point of view of the people closest to him.

“This book is big in every way and readers of romance, history and biography will all find this a heady literary drink, truly a wine of life.” Pensacola News-Journal

Carlotta McBride By

Carlotta McBride Charles Gorham's acclaimed, controversial and banned novel, lost for over sixty years, is finally back in print.

Who is Carlotta McBride? In the swank nightclubs of New York, Hollywood and Paris, she is the beautiful and brilliant star of stage and screen... but in the dark, lurid dive bars and dark alleys of those same cities, she is promiscuous and self-destructive, slowly killing herself with alcohol, drugs, and risky sex. She is a woman seared and haunted by trauma in her past that she can't escape, whether it's in the fantasy world of acting, or at the bottom of a whisky bottle, or in the arms of a brutal man. The only person who can save her is herself...but to do it, she will have to confront a shocking truth.