Book: Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla is a 59-year-old orthopedic surgeon and a Canadian citizen who lives in Toronto. Periodically, the doctor returns to Bombay, where most of his patients are crippled children. Once, 20 years ago, Dr. Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, 20 years...
Simon & Schuster, 2013. — 448 p. ISBN: 1451664133 A New York Times bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny, and affecting—and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a...
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in Norethern Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear . Both the boy and his father become fugitives , forced to run from Coos Country to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto - pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercly libertarian...
Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a perverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder, a man of rare compassion with an addiction to ether.
Dr Larch loves all his orphans,...
2007 г. , 608 стр.
ISBN 978-0-345-38765-3
Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a perverse world in which Homer Wells` odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud`s orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage`s founder, a man of rare compassion with an...
2007 г. , 608 стр.
ISBN 978-0-345-38765-3.
Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a perverse world in which Homer Wells` odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud`s orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage`s founder, a man of rare compassion with an...
John living was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942, and he once admitted that he was a grim child. Although he excelled in English at school and knew by the time he graduated that he wanted to write novels, it was not until he met a young Southern novelist named John Yount, at the University of New Hampshire, that he received encouragement. It was so simple, he remembers....
Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns — his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.
When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is...
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