Friday, May 27, 2011

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, June 2011.

From the 50th Anniversary Edition published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics:


""Shoot All The Bluejays You Want,
If You Can Hit 'Em,
But Remember
It's A Sin To Kill
A Mockingbird."


Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-Winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South - and the heriosm of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred.

One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill A Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis of an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejuidice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inquities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father - a crusading local lawyer - risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime."







Monday, May 2, 2011

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy, May 2011.

From the Publisher:
"I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison."

At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect.