From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we’ll go to in order to get what we want. Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn’t? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does. Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles—or attempts to overcome them—in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.

Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.

Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.

«O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo, dizia, é o romance que gerou mais polémica e é a causa de ter mudado a minha residência de Lisboa para Lanzarote, em Espanha. É um livro que não projetei, porque jamais me havia passado pela cabeça escrever uma vida de Jesus, havendo tantas e sendo tão diferentes as interpretações que dessa vida se fizeram, destrutivas por vezes, ou, pelo contrário, obedecendo às imposições restritivas do dogma e da tradição. Enfim, sobre o filho de José e Maria disse-se de tudo, logo não seria necessário um livro mais, e ainda menos o que viria a escrever um ateu como eu. Simplesmente, o homem põe e a circunstância dispõe e aqui está o que me impeliu a uma tarefa cuja complexidade ainda hoje me assusta.»

«O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo, dizia, é o romance que gerou mais polémica e é a causa de ter mudado a minha residência de Lisboa para Lanzarote, em Espanha. É um livro que não projetei, porque jamais me havia passado pela cabeça escrever uma vida de Jesus, havendo tantas e sendo tão diferentes as interpretações que dessa vida se fizeram, destrutivas por vezes, ou, pelo contrário, obedecendo às imposições restritivas do dogma e da tradição. Enfim, sobre o filho de José e Maria disse-se de tudo, logo não seria necessário um livro mais, e ainda menos o que viria a escrever um ateu como eu. Simplesmente, o homem põe e a circunstância dispõe e aqui está o que me impeliu a uma tarefa cuja complexidade ainda hoje me assusta.»

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Finally, the time has come. But devotion to honor and hunger for vengeance run deep on both sides. Darrow and his comrades-in-arms face powerful enemies without scruple or mercy. Among them are some Darrow once considered friends. To win, Darrow will need to inspire those shackled in darkness to break their chains, unmake the world their cruel masters have built, and claim a destiny too long denied—and too glorious to surrender.