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The author of RAPTURE shifts character type--from angels to vampires--with this satire of the supernatural and consumer culture. A few years ago, vampire Martin Marty Kowalski and a bunch of his bloodsucking friends decided it would be a good idea if more people in the world were vampires. Now, just about everyone is a vampire, and acquiring blood has become a routine trip to the grocery store to buy plasma grown in a lab. Deprived of the hunt, Marty has become almost suicidally bored by the time he encounters one of the few remaining humans on Earth, five-year-old Isuzu Trooper Cassidy. Intending to save her as a delightful, exotic snack, Marty delays feeding on Isuzu. This requires that he not only take care of the little girl in a world no longer equipped for living consumers (e.g., there's no more food industry or working toilets) but also protect her from other vampires. As time passes, Marty slowly transforms from predator to something even more frightening: a parent.
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Shakespeare's classic tragedy of love, madness, and revenge was first enacted in London in 1602. Young Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is in mourning for his dead father, is visited by his father's ghost telling him that he was murdered by his own brother, Claudius, who then assumed the throne and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Intent on revenge, Hamlet feigns madness and plots to kill Claudius. When he accidentally stabs Polonius, Claudius's counselor, Hamlet is sent into exile--and Polonius's
daughter, Ophelia, who had been in love with Hamlet, goes mad from grief and drowns herself. In the climax of the play, old scores are settled at last, and Hamlet's speaks his famous last words: The rest is silence. Considered one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, HAMLET is part of the well-established tradition of revenge tragedies that were popular at the end of the Elizabethan era, but the play transcends all its influences in its examination of justice and duty, and as a subtle portrait of a sensitive young man torn between righteous revenge and his duty as a moral man.
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Colm Toibin's novel follows the life of Henry James during the last five years of the 19th century. Toibin tells the story of the great novelist obliquely by concentrating on events, both big and small, that had a large impact, such as the devastating failure of his play GUY DOMVILLE, his guilt over the suicide of a woman who loved him (and whom he rejected), and his comic but poignant problems with servants. Throughout, Toibin looks at James in relation to his work, finding connections between life and fiction and pondering their significance, in an attempt to decode the life of a man who was both very public--writing streams of letters and memoirs about his own life--and intensely private. Named by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2004.
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Taking place over the course of a single, nightmare-drenched day, this is the tale of a trio of Midwestern teenagers who decide to sneak into a traveling freak show that has set up shop on the outskirts of their rural town. Nominated for the 2000 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.
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