Before the onset of his irreversible decline, Eddie Socket always suspected he was on the verge of something. Now that “something” has arrived in the form of Merrit Mather, an attractive older gentleman of impeccable taste in everything from sweaters to his numerous sexual conquests. That Merrit happens to be the lover of Eddie’s agitated boss, Saul, hardly fazes the smitten Eddie; that the elusive Merrit loses interest in Eddie with dizzying speed hardly dims his ardor. While Eddie contin...

Set in a rapidly gentrifying New York City determined to move beyond the decimation of a generation a decade earlier, What I Did Wrong is a day in the life of Tom, a forty-two-year-old English professor, haunted by the death of his best friend, Zack, who died theatrically and calamitously of AIDS. Tom himself slouches gingerly and precariously into middle age questioning every certainty he had about himself as a gay man while negotiating the field of his college classes, populated...

John Weir, author of The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, a defining novel of 1980s New York in its response to the global AIDS crisis, has written a story collection that chronicles the long aftermath of epidemic death, as recorded in the tragicomic voice of a gay man who survived high school in the 1970s, the AIDS death of his best friend in the 1990s, and his complicated relationship with his mother, “a movie star without a movie to star in,” whose life is winding to a clo...

What I Did Wrong is a dazzling return to fiction for John Weir, a romance that embraces its objects—from the endlessly bewildering question of what it means to be a man to the aspect of New York in all its manic and heartbreaking grandeur. It is a powerfully moving—and often disarmingly funny—book about loss, character, and sexuality in the post-AIDS era, a survivor’s tale in an age when all the certainties have lost their logic and force.Tom, a forty-two-year-old English ...

C.G. Jung started as a psychiatric learning from schizophrenic patients. Among the Jungian school, only John Weir Perry has continued this line of Jung's work with such depth of understanding, clinical acumen, and the ability to write beautifully.Perry's therapy in the California Bay Area with acute episodes in young psychotic patients brought him national and international renown. The case of the young housewife diagnosed catatonic schizophrenic demonstrates the interpenetration of...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

Ny bok av författaren till THE MARTIANAndy Weirs nya sci-fi-klassiker är en Dan Brown i rymden. En smart och dystopisk rymdskildring för alla som älskade Interstellar.Ryland Grace är ensam överlevande på det sista desperata uppdraget att försöka rädda jorden. Om han misslyckas innebär det slutet för mänskligheten.Men det vet inte Ryland. Han vet varken vad han heter, vem han är eller var han befinner sig. Det enda Ryland ve...

**'**Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book' Scotland on SundayThe first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most important men of English History and a thoroughly modern woman.Katherine Swynford was first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster. Her charismatic lover was...

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

Över 20 000 femstjärniga läsarrecensioner i USA. Nu finns den internationella science fiction-succén äntligen på svenska!Efter en misslyckad rymdexpedition lämnas Mark Watney ensam kvar på Mars. Hans besättning är övertygad om att han är död, men Mark Watney lever; i alla fall för tillfället. Utan möjlighet att kunna kommunicera sin belägenhet med jorden inser han snart att han måste utnyttja alla sina kunskaper för att överleva. Utrustad med en stor portion skarps...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The stories in this work describe depth psychological experiences of persons who often ended up in psychiatric hospitals. Beyond suffering and pain, these person's stories show a spirit and courage which led them to become advocates or artists. Many of the authors are well known and part of a national and international movement, advocating for rights of those in the psychiatric system. This work also includes a handful of professionals ...

KAN HON RÄDDA CIVILISATIONEN PÅ MÅNEN?Månstaden Artemis är paradiset i rymden – för rika turister och excentriska miljardärer, alltså.För Jazz är det alger till frukost, ölsubstitut på kvällen och en brits under marken. Till den dag hon erbjuds en oemotståndlig summa för att begå det perfekta brottet.Men givetvis är inget så enkelt som det framstår. Jazz upptäcker snart att hon hamnat mitt i en konspiration för kontrollen av hela Artemis – och att h...