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A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century
Counterpoint 2009; US$ 15.95Born into ?a certain kind of family??affluent, white, Protestant?Jane Vandenburgh came of age when the sexual revolution was sweeping the cultural landscape, making its mark in a way that would change our manners and mores forever. But what began as an all-American life soon spun off and went spectacularly awry. Her father, an architect with a prominent... more...
Physics of Sunset
Counterpoint 2001; US$ 15.95From the author hailed by Newsweek as "a writer of great daring and skill to match" comes a brilliant, wholly original novel about the freedoms and imprisonments of desire. The Physics of Sunset is a spellbinding and fearlessly accurate portrait of the complex erotics of modern married life. more...
Failure To Zigzag
Counterpoint 2000; US$ 16.95It's southern California in the early Sixties, and Charlotte is a teenager, which is bad enough. She also has strange grandparents, with whom she lives, a schizophrenic ventriloquist alcoholic mother who appears and disappears regularly from her life, and only vague information about the father who died before Charlotte was born. With so much craziness... more...
The Wrong Dog Dream
Counterpoint 2013; US$ 26.00The author calls this ?a true romance,? saying, it?s the part of her personal history she, being superstitious, was almost afraid to write. She?d grown up accustomed to bad luck, but had ? by accident or miracle ? survived her own circumstances: being orphaned, her own misspent youth, the chaos of a broken marriage. She?d more than survived, she?d... more...
Architecture of the Novel
Counterpoint 2010; US$ 15.95Jane Vandenburgh, the author of two highly acclaimed novels and a recent memoir, offers aspiring writers the tools to create powerful and unique novels filled not only with good writing but also dynamic storytelling. Architecture of the Novel is an ambitious blueprint for writers, one that reveals the underlying machinery that propels a plot that... more...
Stolen Pleasures
Counterpoint 2011; US$ 15.95?Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry?with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It?s like trying to pin down the eternal moment.? ?Gina Berriault Gina Berriault was one of the great, rare masters of short fiction. With commendable restraint and economy, she delivered stories that contain entire... more...
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