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"For several weeks in the fall of 1977, Los Angeles was held hostage by fear as the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated. With increasing alarm, newspapers headlined the deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler. More than a year later, the mysterious disappearance of two university students near Seattle led to the arrest of a security guard - the handsome, charming, fast-talking Kenny Bianchi - and the ghastly disovery that the strangler was not one man but two."--Back cover

Exploring the complexities of James Joyce's life and work, this study reveals him as an Irishman deeply influenced by his Catholic roots, despite his rejection of them. Rather than being a purely radical figure, Joyce is portrayed as someone who achieved a unique comic perspective on human folly throughout his literary journey, from early poems to masterpieces like Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Mr. O'Brien challenges the notion of Joyce as merely a moral revolutionary, presenting a nuanced view of his artistic evolution and thematic depth.

The hero of Darcy O'Brien's A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a child of Hollywood, and once his life was a glittery dream. His father starred in Westerns. His mother was a goddess of the silver screen. The family enjoyed the high life on their estate, Casa Fiesta. But his parents' careers have crashed since then, and their marriage has broken up too.Lovesick and sex-crazed, the mother sets out on an intercontinental quest for the right—or wrong—man, while her mild-mannered but manipulative former husband clings to his memories in California. And their teenage son? How he struggles both to keep faith with his family and to get by himself, and what in the end he must do to break free, makes for a classic coming-of-age story—a novel that combines keen insight and devastating wit to hilarious and heartbreaking effect.