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This ever and everlasting novel, proceeding with styleless ease in the most readable fashion possible, spans some twenty years and the three lives of the Jordache children from their divided beginnings to their unified endings in middle age. First Gretchen, from her slatternly start at 17 with... (learn more about this book)
Wesley, haunted by his father's murder, begins a strange and deeply personal quest; Billy becomes involved with a girl who leads him into unexpected dangers; Gretchen finds new challenges and experiences a remarkable twist to her life. Moving between Europe and America, "Beggarman, Thief" is a... (learn more about this book)
The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other... (learn more about this book)
The basic story is as familiar as TV's The Millionaire, as old as fairy tales about granted wishes: what happens to a reasonably happy, just-getting-by family when a chance encounter opens the doors to all sorts of experience and opportunity? The family is that of Manhattan public-school... (learn more about this book)
Nightwork's all play for big stakes of one kind or another. It hasn't quite the sentimental grab of Evening in Byzantium but it's just as decorative, circulating through de grande classe hotels - from the Palace in St. Moritz to the Plaza Athenee in Paris - with a battle-scarred, dishonest... (learn more about this book)
'They were honest mean and thieves, pimps and panderers and men of virtue. Therewere beautiful women and delicious girls, handsome men with the faces of swines...' 'They were all gamblers in a game with no rules, placing their bets debonairly or in the sweat of fear...' These are some of the... (learn more about this book)
The Top of the Hill should be a terrible book. The plot is loose and flimsy: the meanderings of Mike Stone, a handsome and sexy 35-ish N.Y. businessman obsessed with doing dangerous things - sky-diving, skiing with somersaults, hang-gliding. The characterization is thin: Mike's compulsion is... (learn more about this book)
If a death threat came in the night, would you know who wanted to kill you?
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Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.
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This acclaimed collection of shor tnovels reveals Irwn Shaw at his most compelling and forceful, at the height of his narrative powers. Five short novels.
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