Literature
Moby-Dick
New York: Signet Classics, 2013. Later printing. Paperback. 599pp. Duodecimo [17 cm]. Blue illustrated wraps. Herman Melville’s thrilling nautical adventure—a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At the heart of Moby-Dick is the powerful, unknowable sea—and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn..... More
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
New York: Vintage Books/Random House, 1992. Reprint. Paperback. 351pp. [20cm]; octavo. Illustrated wraps with white text. "The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner. I venture that no other living..... More
Sacred Books & Sky Hooks
Fort Collins, Colorado: Komos Books, 2020. 269 pp. Octavo. [22 3/4 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Sacred Books & Sky Hooks is a genre-bending literary thriller with occasional dollops of humor. It resembles Melville's Moby Dick in one respect: each narrative is punctuated by nonfictional discussions of a central subject. Instead of..... More