Everything Happens Today
Library Journal Sixteen-year-old Wes, the protagonist of this literary experience of teenage angst, attends Manhattan's elite Dalton School but lives downtown in the Village. A modern Holden Caulfield with an iPhone (though he's both smarter and more interesting than Salinger's antihero), Wes tolerates a mentally absent father, cares for a slowly dying mother, and protects […]
The Girl In the Polka-dot Dress
The Washington Post – Michael Dirda …at once witty, engrossing and macabre…In the end, The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress is strong on atmosphere, incident and wit, while remaining rather nebulous and tantalizing in its plot and resolution…Still, you'll almost certainly enjoy Beryl Bainbridge's dry humor and her book's pervasive sense of menace. It's an […]