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Mitch Cullin is the author of ten books, including the novel Tideland, the film adaptation of which was directed by Terry Gilliam, and the novel-in-verse, Branches. He lives in California's San Gabriel Valley, and as a teenager was featured in USA Today in 1984 as one of the foremost Holmes fans in the world.

A group of housewives smoke cigars and play cards whilst a tornado approaches a west Texas town, an Asian-American medic bicycles through the Vietnam countryside with her husband and son, returning to the spot where she once held dying soldiers. A young rockabilly aficionado prepares for a date in a Ukranian village close to Chernobyl, the words of a Beatles' song ring out in a Cambodian work camp. This is a collection of truly brilliant shor...

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Sono trascorsi quarantaquattro anni da quando Sherlock Holmes ha abbandonato il suo appartamento in Baker Street e si è trasferito in un cottage sul versante meridionale delle colline del Sussex. Aveva quarantanove anni allora, e il trambusto delle strade di Londra, così come gli intricati pantani architettati dalle menti criminali, all'improvviso non lo attirarono più. Ora è un novantatreenne con i capelli candidi, folti e lunghi e la pelle c...

Sixty-eight-year-old Hollis and his wife Debra have settled into their golden years in a gated community outside of Tucson, Arizona. Although they are devoted to each other, events that took place decades earlier, when Hollis fought in the Korean War, have left him with a deep-seated trauma — and with a secret he has never been able to share with his wife. As a reluctant Hollis revisits his past after his wife becomes dangerously ill, we see j...

Jeliza-Rose drifts from the harsh reality of her childhood, escaping into the fantasies of her own active imagination where fireflies have names, bog men awaken at dusk, monster sharks swim down railroad tracks, and disembodied Barbie heads share in her adventures.

Cullin goes behind Sherlock Holmes's cool, unflappable surface to reveal for the first time the inner world of an obsessively private man. The author weaves together Holmes's hidden past and private struggles to transform him into an ordinary man, confronting and acquiescing to emotions he's resisted his entire life.

A Slight Trick of the Mind" is an original portrait of literature's most beloved detective, Sherlock Holmes, in the twilight of his illustrious life. Unabridged. 6 CDs.

Whompyjawed: 1.Askew, out of place 2.Off-center or crooked 3. (informal) a person of eccentric or questionable character, odd.................... Football is Willy Keeler's ticket out of West Texas, but only if he can keep the explosive combination of his intellect and hormones from destroying his high-school career. Not an easy task as he also contends with the endless demands of his girlfriend, mother, coach, and college recruiters. When a s...

A collection that deftly suggests we are all emigrants from personal histories we recall only fleetingly and can barely grasp- polished and graceful stories.