J.R. Salamanca

• Mar-2012
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The "lost country" of the title is the familiar country of innocence and security known as youth---a country we have all known and which, occasionally, in a book like this one, we are able to rediscover.The Lost Country is the story of a boy, Jim Bla...

• Mar-2012
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It is J. R. Salamanca's special gift to create in his novels a world of feeling---in The Lost Country, a pastoral world; in Lilith, a world of fever and dementia; here, a romantic and loving world corrupted by the death of desire. The story of a marr...

• Aug-2001
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Benedict Oakshaw, a gifted young American actor at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, abandons his intense affair with the brilliant, unconventional Jill to marry Priscilla. Returning to the States, Ben also abandons the theater, becoming the en...

• Feb-1986
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The first book in thirteen years by the acclaimed author of Lilith and A Sea Change, Southern Light is a major American novel, a haunting love story that has the lyrical density and symbolic resonance of a great poem. Southern Light tells the story o...

• Nov-1984
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LILITH is a powerfully drawn portrait of innocence corrupted by evil -- an evil so brilliant, so beautiful, so imaginatively conceived that even its violence and amorality have a fantastic splendor of their own. This is the evil of Lilith, a wildly d...