A Goddess in the Stones Ravan Press whom Joyce Carol Oates has

whom Joyce Carol Oates has called 'one of the most original and consistently exciting of North American poets'

It is with some trepiditation that Meredith Mitchell returns to the Cotswolds: the Bamford district holds memories that

not to mention one particularly determined love rival

explode with terrible consequences

Margaret Drabble has retreated from the public scene of The Ice Age to pursue some of the more domestic preoccupations of her early work

A Goddess in the Stones Ravan Press whom Joyce Carol Oates hasNorman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his travels in India begin in the impoverished, overpopulated and corrupt state of Bihar the scene of a brutal caste war between the untouchables and higher caste gangsters. From these violent happenings, he heads down the west coast of Bengal and into the highlands of Orissa to testify to the life of the