The Shining by Stephen King is one of the author’s best works, if not his best. It tells the story of Jack Torrrance and his winter acting as the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. He is joined by his wife, Wendy, and five-year-old son, Danny. Jack wants the job because he is working on...
Born in 1931, Nawal El-Saadawi has lived the type of multifaceted life that seems unreal. In 1955, she graduated the University of Cairo Medical School, specializing in psychiatry. Three years later, she wrote Memoirs of a Woman Doctor. During the 1960s and the early 1970s, she worked in public service as the Director of...
In a quiet, upper-class neighborhood in Groose Pointe, Michigan, a family tragedy draws the fascination of an anonymous group of boys and their parents. When the teenaged boys suffers their first angst of sexual desire, their eyes turned to the Lisbon girls. Five in number, ranging in age from 13 to 17, these blond...
