Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she's been told about the beautiful

and such extravagant purchases as a broken-down Rolls-Royce

An isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse

and when he raids Heaven's Orchard of Immortal Peaches and gorges himself on the elixirs of the gods

think again

calls “the exquisite

This extraordinary novel is seen through the eyes of Johannes

taking his secrets with him

But as the harsh winter weather sets in

Gould describes the seminal influences––from Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry to The Goon Show and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland––that shaped the Beatles both as individuals and as a group

In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being' In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events

part travelogue