Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. But after Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a half-starved neighborh[...]

Born in the 1920s to nomadic, bohemian parents, Paula Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage, then cared for by a poor yet cultivated minister in upstate New York. Her parents, however, soon resurface. Her handsome father is a hard-drinking screenwriter who is, for young Paula, "part ally, pa[...]

Poor George gives us George Mecklin, a restless, soft-spoken teacher at a private school in Manhattan. Depressed by his life of vague moral purpose, George discovers a local adolescent named Ernest breaking into his house. Rather than hand the boy over to the police, as his nagging wife insists, Geo[...]

This gathering of Paula Fox s short work spans her illustrious career, from 1965 to the present including perfectly turned stories; pointed, engaging essays; and raw yet eloquent memoir."[...]

Jessie Bollier often played his fife to earn a few pennies down by the New Orleans docks. One afternoon a sailor asked him to pipe a tune, and that evening Jessie was kidnapped and dumped aboard The Moonlight, a slave ship, where a hateful duty awaited him. He was to play music so the slaves could "[...]

From the author of the Newbery Medal-winning novel "The Slave Dancer" comes this story of a lonely boy whose acquaintance with an artist--hired to paint the boy's portrait--proves to be life-changing.[...]

Paula Fox, født 1923, er først og fremmest kendt som forfatter til en række bøger for børn, hvoraf en del er udkommet på dansk. Hun har skrevet ialt 5 romaner, deriblandt Desperate personer, "der knejser som et landemærke i efterkrigslitteraturen" (David Foster Wallace) - "Som forfatter er Fo[...]

Sophie och Otto Bentwood lever ett liv som på ytan är ganska händelselöst, ibland snudd på glamouröst. De bor i Brooklyn i New York, han är advokat, hon översättare, de går på cocktailbjudningar och har Goethes samlade verk i bokhyllan. Men redan i romanens början drabbas de av ett olyck[...]