Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
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George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting ...
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is dia...
Yorkshire moorlands, northern England, in the late 18th century. Young Heathcliff, rescued from the ...
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to ...
In this story the hero is haunted by a beautiful young woman who tries to stab him to death with a k...
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles d...
In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to ...
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. ...