San Antonio College Library

"During the last thirty years of the twentieth century, John Guare, largely due to the universal appeal of his best-known dramas, The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, has been lauded as one of the most successful American playwrights. However, his plays have been perceived by critics as problematic and paradoxical; as a result, with no books and a paucity of articles written about his theater, Guare has not received the critical...

When his brother, Tony, calls to say he has fallen out of love with his fiancee, travel agent Patrick O'Neil finally feels a kinship with his sibling. "Patrick O'Neil is a travel agent who never goes anywhere. His closest confidante, Sharon, is chain-smoking her way to singles hell, passing up man after man. His parents, proprietors of a suburban men's store whose fortunes are sagging more visibly than its customers, can't agree how best to interfere...

"In a motel room outside Oklahoma City, a lonely waitress hiding from her abusive ex-husband is joined by a soft-spoken young drifter who might be an AWOL Gulf War veteran. And then they see the first bugs ..."--Jacket.

Ten years after Muriel does her mother in, she gets out of the mental asylum ready for vengeance in a macabre, terrible twist. Through disguises, she's able to torment those who sent her to the asylum.

Aurora Greenway must come to grips with old age while those around her try to cope with their own problems, including an unwanted pregnancy and time spent in prison.

Lost in a barrio south of Pomona hocking his wares, Cyclone Air Purifiers door-to-door salesman Earl Dean crosses the doorstep of Dan Brown, a man intent on avenging the death of his brother.

"Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader who likes cats. So how is it that, in competition with the worst villains the universe has to offer, he's become the proud owner of the last seedship of Earth's legendary Ecological Engineering Corps? Never mind, just be thankful that the most powerful weapon in human space is in good hands--hands which now control cellular material for thousands of outlandish creatures. Armed with this unique equipment, Tuf...

"On the publication of his first novel, The Tin Drum, Günter Grass was acclaimed internationally as the most imaginative and powerful novelist to come out of postwar Germany. Cat and Mouse has the same setting that The Tin Drum made famous: Danzig and its petty bourgeoisie. But the art form is deliberately different. Brief and compact, it focuses on the extraordinary fate and person of one hero, Joachim Mahlke, fourteen years old when the story starts....

"Gaetano Proclo [is] a minor mob flunky who's been targeted for elimination by his brother-in-law, Carmine Vespucci. Gaetano takes refuge in what he thinks is a Turkish bath. Actually, it's a gay bathhouse (this is the pre-AIDS era), where the exquisitely awful Googie Gomez entertains the homosexual patrons with her ear-splitting renditions of such show tunes as "Everything's Coming Up Roses." Hoping to save his neck by pretending to be gay, Gaetano...