Looking to strike it rich with television gold, an English media tycoon enlists the help of an unassuming novelist to script his small-screen epic, to disastrous-and hilarious-effectThe year is 1986, and the cuts imposed by Margaret Thatcher's government have trickled down to university life, where departments are being forced to shave their payrolls to account for reduced public funding.
A headstrong young journalist goes on the adventure of a lifetime, traveling through Europe to find the world's most enigmatic philosopherBazlo Criminale is one of Europe's most legendary living men.
Reporter-turned-television executive Robin Hudson is living it up at New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel-until murder gets her down in award-winning author Sparkle Hayter's dazzling comic mysteryAfter a neighbor's electric wall-hanging short-circuits and sets Robin Hudson's East Village apartment building on fire, the TV newswoman and her cat are forced to temporarily relocate.
When TV newswoman Robin Hudson launches an investigation into how far men have evolved, she confronts her most unusual murder case yet in this mystery that the San Diego Union-Tribune hailed as "e;offbeat and outrageously funny,"e; by award-winning author Sparkle Hayter With her new executive status at All New Network, reporter Robin Hudson is experiencing a testosterone high from bossing around her macho male coworkers.
On Halloween, TV news producer Robin Hudson takes a deadly stroll down memory lane in award-winning author Sparkle Hayter's profoundly funny mystery, which Janet Evanovich hailed as "e;sexy, irreverent, and wacky"e;Things are looking up for Robin Hudson.
Arthur Ellis Award Winner: The "e;flat-out funny"e; first mystery in the series featuring a newly single reporter trying to clear herself of murder (Publishers Weekly).
A bitterly comic novel of middle-aged angst and middle-class American life in the 1960s, by the acclaimed author of Little Big ManIt is the late sixties in suburbia, and Carlo Reinhart's life is a mess.
The sins of the father are hilariously visited on the son in this witty and profound novel about the meaning of it allStanley Waltz is a Polish American piano mover and pugnacious atheist married to a born-again believer.
A masterwork of literary parody about a suburban Samaritan and the poet he seeks to inspireAfter the wild adventures of Comfort Me with Apples, Chick Swallow has found domestic peace in Decency, Connecticut, accepting his fate as a middle-class husband and father and the author of an advice column in the local newspaper.
An irresistible comedy about faith, desire, and middle-class morality from the man described by Kingsley Amis as "e;the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic"e;Pity the poor reverend Andrew Mackerel of the People's Liberal Church of Avalon, Connecticut.
A laugh-out-loud novel about teenage pretensions and adult delusions from an author whom the New York Times has called "e;a Balzac of the station wagon set"e;Chick Swallow and his best friend, Nickie Sherman, are teenage boulevardiers of Decency, Connecticut, devotees of Oscar Wilde who spend their evenings crafting perverse aphorisms in an ice-cream parlor.
Henry James's tragicomic masterpiece pits a headstrong Mississippi lawyer against his feminist cousin in a no-holds-barred fight for the heart of an impressionable young suffragetteWhen Basil Ransom, a headstrong Mississippi lawyer, comes to Boston to call on his wealthy activist cousin, Olive, an epic battle of wills ensues.
The classic comic travelogue about an ill-fated boating holiday on the River ThamesThree Men in a Boat is the irreverent tale of a group of friends who, along with a fox terrier named Montmorency, embark on a two-week boating journey up the Thames.
This volume contains eleven stories not previously collected together and not included in any of the other classic Sheckley compendiums published by Open Road.
An author of racy novels heads to picturesque Vermont to finish his manuscript-but finds his retreat less than peaceful-in this "e;bright, slapstick comedy"e; (The New York Times).
An oddball newspaper editor advises eccentric readers-and reckons with her own painful past in this psychological thriller Willis Digby is the letters editor at Sis (Sisterhood) magazine, a job that drives her mad.
A landmark of feminist science fictionThree students of sociology journey into an uncharted region of South America to put to rest the rumors that an all-female civilization lives there.
Hailed by Time as an "e;extravagantly comic"e; novel, A Woman Named Drown is a wild and strange journey through America's South that follows a young PhD dropout who falls in with an amateur actress-cum-pool sharkOn the brink of earning his doctorate in chemistry, the unnamed narrator decides to chuck it all away in favor of real life.
A young writer-to-be embarks on a comic coming-of-age journey through the crushing mediocrity of work, the vagaries of fate, and the mysteries of sexA confused and conflicted but not altogether angry young man shares his observations, disappointments, rants, and sexual desires in a revealing series of letters to an unnamed friend.
The new librarian in the tiny town of Splendora, Texas, has a big secretA stunning and stylish femme fatale named Miss Jessie Gatewood has arrived in the dusty hamlet of Splendora.
A wide-eyed redhead finds her true calling as a Christian evangelist in a broken-down town in Southwest TexasA large redheaded girl from a small East Texas town, Principia Martindale is fairly directionless.
The hilarious chronicle of the McAlister clan, a collection of bickering southern eccentrics whose family history is a parade of missteps, mishaps, and certifiable insanityIn the later years of her life, widow and grandmother Pearl decides to return to East Texas and move in with her sister, Wanda Gay despite the fact that the two have never agreed on anything.
The misadventures of a motley group of artists making their way in New York CityA misfit collection of wannabes, has-beens, and never-weres, the Christopher Park Regulars gather frequently in the heart of New York's Greenwich Village.
In this "e;delightful and bizarre"e; novel, Clarissa Spellbinder spins the yarn of her truly unbelievable-and completely unverified-life (The Boston Globe).
