Diane Lefer Catalog
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The Fiery Alphabet http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=Diane+Lefer
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It's dangerous for a girl to be a freethinker and mathematical prodigy in 18th-century Rome. Daniela Messo and her father withdraw themselves from the world until the occultist Balsamo arrives, suspecting she has inherited the secrets of Abraham Abulafia, the Jewish mystic of medieval Spain who claimed to be the Messiah. Posing as wonder-working pilgrims, Daniela and Balsamo swindle their way across Europe, perhaps to Jerusalem or an ambiguous salvation.
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It's dangerous for a girl to be a freethinker and mathematical prodigy in 18th-century Rome. Daniela Messo and her father withdraw themselves from the world until the occultist Balsamo arrives, suspecting she has inherited the secrets of Abraham Abulafia, the Jewish mystic of medieval Spain who claimed to be the Messiah. Posing as wonder-working pilgrims, Daniela and Balsamo swindle their way across Europe, perhaps to Jerusalem or an ambiguous salvation.
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Nobody Wakes Up Pretty http://www.amazon.com/Nobody-Wakes-Pretty-Diane-Lefer/dp/1937758125/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378491866&sr=1-1&keywords=Nobody+Wakes+Up+Pretty
New York City, 1992. For Holly, it's the summer when the city she’s lived in all her life changes past recognition. And the funerals are about to begin. "Let’s get this out of the way," she says. "I’m a white woman who likes black men." That includes her lover Samps. Once a young artist of promise, he's now homeless, living in a Harlem squat, and maybe, Holly fears, clinically insane. But that doesn't explain why she's caught up in a web that connects Jewish, Italian, and black organized crime. Or what any of this has to do with the midtown law firm where she temps, a missing Haitian girl, and
a world-famous Japanese monkey. Her friends are getting shot. She and Samps can try to save themselves--or do what they can to stop the killing.
New York City, 1992. For Holly, it's the summer when the city she’s lived in all her life changes past recognition. And the funerals are about to begin. "Let’s get this out of the way," she says. "I’m a white woman who likes black men." That includes her lover Samps. Once a young artist of promise, he's now homeless, living in a Harlem squat, and maybe, Holly fears, clinically insane. But that doesn't explain why she's caught up in a web that connects Jewish, Italian, and black organized crime. Or what any of this has to do with the midtown law firm where she temps, a missing Haitian girl, and
a world-famous Japanese monkey. Her friends are getting shot. She and Samps can try to save themselves--or do what they can to stop the killing.
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California Transit http://www.amazon.com/California-Transit-Stories-Mccarthy-Fiction/dp/1932511474/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2
“From the world that could not be saved, the storyteller salvages small, strange stuff and assembles it into a narrative of alarming beauty and mystery and sadness.”—from the introduction by Carole Maso
Southern California: land of dislocation and assimilation, a place Diane Lefer knows well. In California
Transit, she uses conversational prose and macabre wit to zero-inon a Mexican woman detained indefinitely by immigration officials, isolating her from her American family; a zoo employee
considering what to do with a euthanized antelope’s head; and, in the title novella, a lonely woman, riding buses all day, who cannot avert the violence building within her. This collection explores the
difference between justice and law through a lens unfiltered by moralistic or didactic intention. Like a
surveillance camera meant to record crime, not stop it, Lefer presents a world gone wrong, not
because of people’s hatred for one another but because of their impossible, unfulfilled yearning to
connect.
“From the world that could not be saved, the storyteller salvages small, strange stuff and assembles it into a narrative of alarming beauty and mystery and sadness.”—from the introduction by Carole Maso
Southern California: land of dislocation and assimilation, a place Diane Lefer knows well. In California
Transit, she uses conversational prose and macabre wit to zero-inon a Mexican woman detained indefinitely by immigration officials, isolating her from her American family; a zoo employee
considering what to do with a euthanized antelope’s head; and, in the title novella, a lonely woman, riding buses all day, who cannot avert the violence building within her. This collection explores the
difference between justice and law through a lens unfiltered by moralistic or didactic intention. Like a
surveillance camera meant to record crime, not stop it, Lefer presents a world gone wrong, not
because of people’s hatred for one another but because of their impossible, unfulfilled yearning to
connect.
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The Blessing Next to the Wound http://www.amazon.com/Blessing-Next-Wound-Activism-Transformation/dp/1590561716/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378492082&sr=1-2
Hector Aristizabal grew up in the barrios of Medellin, Colombia, where he and his siblings had to use all their wit, wiles, and wherewithal to survive poverty, the ever-present allure of cheap drugs and very
dangerous money, and the endemic violence from leftwing guerrillas, rightwing death squads, cocaine cartels, and the armed power of the State. As a young actor and psychology student, Hector was seized by the military, held in secret, and tortured. He survived and went on to find meaning in his ordeal as he channeled his desire for revenge into nonviolent activism both in his homeland and during decades of exile in the United States.
Hector Aristizabal grew up in the barrios of Medellin, Colombia, where he and his siblings had to use all their wit, wiles, and wherewithal to survive poverty, the ever-present allure of cheap drugs and very
dangerous money, and the endemic violence from leftwing guerrillas, rightwing death squads, cocaine cartels, and the armed power of the State. As a young actor and psychology student, Hector was seized by the military, held in secret, and tortured. He survived and went on to find meaning in his ordeal as he channeled his desire for revenge into nonviolent activism both in his homeland and during decades of exile in the United States.
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Radiant Hunger http://bookstore.iuniverse.com/Products/SKU-000008659/Radiant-Hunger.aspx
Two households on a back road: a devastated family and an apocalyptic cult. Here are people driven to the edge, forced to draw the line that can't be crossed and learn what happens after you cross it.
Two households on a back road: a devastated family and an apocalyptic cult. Here are people driven to the edge, forced to draw the line that can't be crossed and learn what happens after you cross it.