William Goldman's stunning debut novel about a young boy, adrift and alone, coming of age in a cruel world. Raymond Euripides Trevitt is not yet ten when he resolves to make his own way in life. When a new boy, Zock, moves in next door, he knows he has finally met his partner in life's great adventures. As they come of age in midwestern, midcentury America, Ray and Zock become the best of friends - even though they're opposites in many ways. Ray takes...

Written in just fifty-two days in the year 1839, "The Charterhouse of Parma" has since become known as Stendhal's finest work. Evidence of haste is infrequently apparent in this remarkable story, which follows the eventful life of the young Italian nobleman Fabrizio del Dongo. From his childhood in the family castle by Lake Como to the battlefields of Waterloo, Fabrizio proves himself charmingly headstrong and painfully naïve. Upon returning injured...

"A coming-of-age tale that follows a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda during the Civil War and make sense of his reality"-- Provided by publisher.

Vows of celibacy are tested in a Vermont parish with the arrival of a beautiful woman from Montreal to care for ailing Father George Lecoeur. Not just the priest's celibacy either--on the premises is Frank Bennett, a young man about to enter a seminary.

A working-class vato looks for love, lust, and meaning in the modern Southwest in this acclaimed first novel by an award-winning author. Mickey Acuña is a man suspended between a vague past and a vaguer future. Emerging from the landscape of the Southwest, buffeted by life and licking his wounds, he moves into a YMCA to wait for a check that is coming to save him and that demands an address. As days and then weeks pass without its arrival, he picks...

Seven years separate Buddy Hope from his big brother Lee, but hte boys have always been close, comforting and protecting each other as their father, defeated by poor land and hostile weather, sinks deeper into alcohol and rage. When a whiskey-driven accident takes not only his life but the life of the mother who tried so hard to shield her sons, the boys sell off what little remains of their father's tenant farm and leave Oklahoma.

Stockton, California, is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and dingy bars, days like long twilights in houses obscured by untrimmed shrubs and black walnut trees. When two men meet in the ring the retired boxer Billy Tully and the newcomer Ernie Munger their brief bout sets into motion their hidden fates, initiating young Munger into the company of men and luring Tully back into training. In a dispassionate and composed...

The romantic trials of the owner of a London record shop, after his girlfriend leaves him for another man.

Through three turbulent decades, Forrest rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disablility to football stardom, from Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon, from White House honors to the arms of his one true love.

Kid is an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city's sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took...