When a man can't achieve intimacy with someone else, such as a wife, he ends up achieving it with himself, which is no good. Hector Owen is well aware of his problem. He's a washed-up playwright whose
A young woman geneticist perfects a serum made from both human and shark DNA. In her hurry and ambition, she skips biotech protocol and tries the serum on herself. But she makes a mistake: instead of
An unnamed narrator reads letters meant for Farrell Gordon, a manager of a sporting goods store with a hatred of his Korean American boss, and reconstructs and comments on Farrell's life
In the twenty-second century while earth is ruled by a select group of directors and administrators, Mark Grimal, a speechwriter in the administration and unhappily married, falls in love with a woman
A fictionalization of the author's adolescent sexual adventures in Austria and Paris in the years following World War I, they are for the most part adventures in sexual frustration. The four women he
Follows the struggles of Sandy, a girl who would have been in her senior year of high school if she had not been physically and mentally damaged in an automobile accident which also killed her older s
