Attilio Veraldi Books

Wilbur Smith's second Ballantyne novel - another rattling good read.

The first novel of the trilogy introducing Bernard Samson and the rest of the bickering, in-fighting intelligence community in which he is a much put-upon member. After five years of desk work, Bernie finds himself ordered back into the field.

"Few novels have caused as much controversy as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece. Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, it tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation; and Harry, the strike leader who hides his true desires behind a boorish masculinity, are unforgettable creations."--Publisher's website.

Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid flats of Paris. With incomparable glee, Miller shifts effortlessly from Virgil to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort. In this seductive technicolor swirl of Paris and New York, he captures like no one else the blending of people and the cities they inhabit.

Quattro degli otto racconti (gli altri sono raccolti in Blues di Bay City), composti tra il 1935 e il 1941, di cui Raymond Chandler era gelosissimo e che non volle pubblicare in vita. Uscirono infatti solo postumi, nel 1964. Fece di tutto per dimenticarli, ma non certo perché fossero meno belli degli altri pubblicati. Anzi, li tenne segretissimi perché erano i più belli. In questi racconti si assiste tra l’altro alla nascita del celebre Philip Marlowe. All’inizio è un detective senza nome, poi si comincia a chiamare Carmady, quindi cambia nome e finalmente viene battezzato Marlowe, l’uomo che compie il suo lavoro con pena e disgusto, l’investigatore che ha reso celebre il suo inventore.

When the Van Der Byl Diamond Company is willed by its founder to his son Benedict, it turns out to be a bequest of hatred.

Couples is the book that has been assailed for its complete frankness and praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrait of love, marriage, and adultery in America. But be it damned or hailed, Couples drew back the curtain forever on sex in suburbia in the late twentieth century. A classic, it is one of those books that will be read -- and remembered -- for a long time to come.