Rescue, Anita ShreveTHE CAR CRASH SHOULD HAVE KILLED HER. But rookie paramedic Peter Webster takes the emergency call, and helps the young woman, Shiela Arsenault, to survive. After the accident, she haunts his thoughts, despite his misgivings about getting involved with a patient. Soon he is embroiled in an intense love affair and in Shiela's troubled life. Eighteen years later, Shiela is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering

"The Dharma Bums" appeared just one year after the author's explosive "On The Road" had put the Beat Generation on the literary map and Kerouac on the best-seller list

It speaks volumes

Soon Foster and Ives find themselves on a collision course that threatens to expose the violence hidden beneath Hollywood's glamorous façade

audience rituals

and scatter plots (to name a few) can better inform us

A Penguin Classic

Vance tells the true story of what a social

selling millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market)

then pick its pocket

Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes

Through humor

The decade that follows doesn’t go exactly to plan