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Four teenagers in a remote mountain cabin play a mysterious unlabeled videotape, a bizarre series of images that ends with a dire warning. Exactly one week later, all four are dead of apparent heart failure. The uncle of one of the victims, reporter Kazuyuki Asakawa, scents a story, and his pursuit of the truth leads him to view the tape himself. He quickly realizes that there is some sort of malevolent intent behind the creation of the tape, and unless he can discover the source of that intent and determine what it wants, Asakawa, his loved ones, and perhaps even the entire world, will come under the influence of the tape and be doomed by it. A bestseller in Japan, RING has spawned two sequels, a manga series, a Japanese TV series, and several films in both Japan and the United States. Koji Suzuki has been referred to as the Japanese Stephen King, and certainly this novel and its spinoffs have done much to make Japanese horror popular in the United States.
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Sincerity's Shadow
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Following James Merrill’s widely celebratedCollected PoemsandCollected Novels and Plays, this volume gives us, most intimately, the man himself and his charmingly straightforward exploration of how he became himself. As much as any poet of our time, Merrill conceived of his work and his life as warp and woof, and the prose collected here (from his juvenilia and occasional pieces through his critical writings to his interviews and memoir) shows how bound up in his craft (itself a recurrent topic) were his readings and reflections, his travels and friendships. Even Merrill’s most devoted readers will be startled anew at the range of his aesthetic concerns and the depth of his knowledge. Dante and Ponge, Cavafy and Montale, Elizabeth Bishop and Wallace Stevens, all figure prominently here, and the volume is shot through with commentary on music, especially opera, and descriptions of the world’s great cities–including New York, Paris, Istanbul, and Kyoto–and their cultural treasures. The volume closes resoundingly withA Different Person, Merrill’s memoir of his young life, in which he travels to Europe to explore the culture, comes of age as a gay man, and faces down his legacy as the son of the renowned financier Charles E. Merrill.As Merrill remarks to one interviewer here, a poet is“someone choosing the words he lives by.” This volume, a cross section of a singularly complex literary life, showcases the care for verbal nuance and the inimitably varied tones that distinguish this great American writer.
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Five travelers are killed when a bridge collapses in Peru. A young priest investigates their lives and tells their stories, discovering that each victim suffered from an all-encompassing love that could not, for various reasons, find satisfaction. This was Thornton Wilder's most celebrated novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1927.
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When P.I. Regan Reilly attends a class reunion in England, the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up. Clues to the mystery follow Regan as she sails home--and into the hands of a killer.
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