Are these linked trends mostly about gay marriage?
Over and over in the course of these linked essays, Aciman shows himself wanting to be elsewhere.
These linked stories introduce the inhabitants of Crosby, Maine, where the pull of domestic tragedy is stronger for rarely being spoken of.
Part comedy of manners, part chamber of horrors, these linked autobiographical novellas, set in the loftiest echelons of the British upper class, demonstrate that deep chemical dissolution and crisp Saville Row tailoring need not be conflicting imperatives.
In these linked essays, Sebald takes up the troubled lives of five writers and one painter with the delicacy, intensity, and tone of sombre mystery for which he was known.
Part comedy of manners, part chamber of horrors, these linked autobiographical novellas, set in the loftiest echelons of the British upper class, demonstrate that deep chemical dissolution and crisp Savile Row tailoring need not be conflicting imperatives.
These linked "Jackson" stories, Barbox Brothers and Barbox Brothers and Co, are like chapters in a novel, and suggest that Dickens needed a bigger canvas for the development of his plot.
These linked stories, set in or near the town of Angelus, on the western coast of Australia, mostly focus on working people -- fishermen, cops, prospectors, housecleaners -- returning to their roots, or trying to escape them.
These linked essays argue that the Internet -- far from being a disappointment -- has succeeded in rearranging the fundamental social order through a populist electronic uprising led by young prodigies who are subverting their elders' clunky old regime.
Many of the characters in this first collection are jaded, substance-abusing, lost souls, but few are more so than the narrator of each of these linked stories, a Pakistani-American B-movie-grade actor named Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
The government had at first supported these linked objectives, but the supporters of "Old Russian piety" fell into opposition to the reforms as they were officially promulgated.
