Almost Transparent Blue Richard Bird the new classics

the new classics

Through Brian Lamb and Susan Swain's interviews with our country's most influential judges

Strong reveals what the afflicted and those close to them can do to start a process of healing

Kerouac's road epic - types on one continuous scroll in only three weeks - is published for the first time as the author intended

Almost Transparent Blue Richard Bird the new classicsAlmost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and hallucination, highs and lows, in which the characters and their experiences come