The Ruins / / Trace Farrell.
Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the "gastronomical Elect," The Ruins is a black-eyed, Machiavellian fairy tale for adults, a gleeful cautionary discourse on ambition and ingratitude, and the penalties for disbelief in those forces within oneself. Like all...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020] ©1998 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, etc.
- CHAPTER ONE. In Which Our Hero's Knees—Dicey, a Hazard in the Best of Times—Have Never Been Worse . . .
- CHAPTER TWO. The Consummate Martooni
- CHAPTER THREE. Beauty, Truth, and a Call to First Principles
- CHAPTER FOUR. In Which Tom Is Keacquainted with Some Old Friends
- CHAPTER FIVE. A Real Mob Scene
- CHAPTER SIX. Tango Romantico
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Mortificatio
- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Ball (About Which Please See Explanatory Remark)
- CHAPTER NINE. Sacrificio
- CHAPTER TEN. Kee-kee-kkiree! An Epilogue . . .
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR