Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a check-out girl at a…

Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.

Brian Cruver, an ambitious 26-year-old lands a job at Enron. As he assimilates to the company’s get-rich-quick mantra, spending sprees and wild corporate “gatherings” become the norm. But when Enron…

As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family’s past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry…

The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.

A Pakistani boy develops into a young revolutionary and confronts love, religious conflict, and his own death through Zoroastrian rituals of purification.

In Nazi Germany, Kitty runs a brothel where the soldiers come to ‘relax’. Recording devices have been installed by a power-hungry official who plans to use the information to blackmail…

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.

International rock sensation Lola Rain has long hidden her dark personal life of substance abuse and cheap sex. Following her demise, manager Luke Frame is wracked with guilt, suddenly revitalized…

On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters…

Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.

A recently married scholar goes on a quest for knowledge of other people’s wives, based on his philosophical differences with the Sack Monk. He encounters the Flying Thief, who agrees…