Histoire (romans), Intrigue amoureuse à sensationsHistoire (biographies), Etats-Unis (histoire)
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Journalist Pope Brock grew up ignorant of his family's most closely guarded secret. It was only when his great-aunt was…
dying that he learned the true circumstances surrounding the death of his great-grandfather Ham Dillon. An aspiring young Indiana politician, Dillon was shot to death in 1908 by his own brother-in-law, Link Hale -- a man half-crazed with anger and grief over the fact that his wife, Allie, had just borne Ham a child. To add another twist, Allie Hale was more than just Ham Dillon's lover; she was also his wife's only sister. In "Indiana Gothic", he tells the story of Ham Dillon with the sweep and power of a novel, re-creating the era in such vivid detail that we have the sensation of time travel
In 1925, young Sammy Hoch travels with his parents and sister, Sosh, from Poland to Manchester, England. Sammy, or Titch,…
as his sister lovingly calls him, sees himself as too short, too bookish, too Jewish, and too foreign. After a stint in the British army, Titch gets called up by the Polish army, and confusion and hilarity result. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex