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The Contractor
“Unsettling and timely...fine literary prose”
The Independent
“A compelling mix of thriller, psychodrama
and, yes, political commentary”
starred review, Booklist
“Powerful in its reach … resounds with
literary merit"
Library Journal
"Finely tuned...a valuable entry in the Gitmo
field"
Publishers' Weekly
More about The Contractor here
“Unsettling and timely...fine literary prose”
The Independent
“A compelling mix of thriller, psychodrama
and, yes, political commentary”
starred review, Booklist
“Powerful in its reach … resounds with
literary merit"
Library Journal
"Finely tuned...a valuable entry in the Gitmo
field"
Publishers' Weekly
More about The Contractor here
Back in the Game
Coming
in
2012...
Coming
in
2012...
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...to be released
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"The darkest of comedies, a satiric parable"
Boston Globe
"Truly eccentric...well-earned humor and
poignant story"
Booklist
"NICE is a rollicking, smile-provoking read"
Arizona Daily Star
More about NICE here
review from PUBLISHERS WEEKLY:
apology remembers a man who acted
apology remembers a man who acted
according to the belief that life is fleeting
and that happiness is the only worthwhile
pursuit and the only true standard of
morality. ...
morality. ...
morality. ...
Using earnest, often hilarious small-town
syntax, Holdefer tells the simple,
memorable tale of a man who lived life as if
he savored it and yet was indifferent to it, as
if it were wine in a beautiful glass that
would inevitably be broken.
Philip Larking and the Poetics
of Resistance
"A valuable contribution to the further
development of Larkin studies"
The European English Messenger
"Highly original"
Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad
Complutense
DESCRIPTION:
"I'm an agnostic," the British poet Philip
Larkin (1922-1985) used to say, "an
Anglican agnostic, of course."
mediated by an engaging play of bluff and
mediated by an engaging play of bluff and
counter-bluff, as seen in his almost mock
metaphysics.
metaphysics.
What Larkin is resisting in his writings, how
this is a achieved, and why his texts tend to
such complex ends, are among the
questions explored by the thirteen
specialists in this first thematically-unified
volume of Larkin scholarship published in
France.
of Resistance
"A valuable contribution to the further
development of Larkin studies"
The European English Messenger
"Highly original"
Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad
Complutense
DESCRIPTION:
"I'm an agnostic," the British poet Philip
Larkin (1922-1985) used to say, "an
Anglican agnostic, of course."
mediated by an engaging play of bluff and
mediated by an engaging play of bluff and
counter-bluff, as seen in his almost mock
metaphysics.
metaphysics.
What Larkin is resisting in his writings, how
this is a achieved, and why his texts tend to
such complex ends, are among the
questions explored by the thirteen
specialists in this first thematically-unified
volume of Larkin scholarship published in
France.
For an archive
theater reviews
written by
Charles
Holdefer,
see here
theater reviews
written by
Charles
Holdefer,
see here