Search Results: Titles starting with A from Encanto Books

Synopsis: Alicia is a smart, confident and gorgeous prostitute in Havana. She is not a street-walker. Rather, she displays her wares on bicycle, seducing men through the irresistible pull of her fine derrière. John King, her new client, is a Canadian businessman with a striking resemblance to movie star Alain Delon. This is no ordinary John and Alicia's feelings for him grow; she sees in their relationship the possibility of escape from her dead-end life in a Havana plagued with scarcity. When John King's wealthy and sexually deviant boss is suddenly killed, Alicia and John hatch a get-rich-quick scheme. A web of deception is woven, but just as quickly unraveled disastrously, and only one person is able to say adiós to the dilapidated island of Cuba.
Daniel Chavarría was born in Uruguay in 1933. He spent the 1960s involved in several South American liberation struggles. He fled the continent and settled in Havana, Cuba, where he has resided since 1969. From 1975 to 1986, Chavarría worked as a… Read More

Comments: Tight copy. No d-j issued.
Synopsis: Advise and Consent is a study of political animals in their natural habitat and is universally recognized as THE Washington novel. It begins with Senate confirmation hearings for a liberal Secretary of State and concludes two weeks later, after debate and controversy have exploded this issue into a major crisis.

Comments: Glue residue on FFEP. Small bump on bottom of front board. Ink on bottom edges. D-j has light shelf wear. Tight copy.
Synopsis: This sophisticated narrative of spy/counterspy is set in Washington, where the Russians have planted an "agent in place." For nine years he has worked himself quietly into the fabric of government and society. Dedicated and patient, he has everyone's respect. It is a plot where amateurs are the villains and professionals are the heroes — particularly a team of British and French agents whose job is to foil further Russian intervention.
The story moves from Washington to New York to Menton on the French Riviera, where it concludes in a series of stunning revelations, dismaying setbacks and breathless discoveries.

Comments: Tight copy. D-j has some minor shelf wear on front.
Synopsis: Set in Saigon and in America, this debut novel by Pulitzer Prize winner, Robert Olen Butler is the tragic story of a man and a woman of widely diverging cultures who are brought together by the turmoil of war, only to drift apart in the aftermath of the crisis. Clifford Wilkes — the last U.S. Army deserter left in Saigon — has lived for the past five years in a small hotel room with his Vietnamese lover, Lanh. But when they are forced to flee the city on the last choppers to leave the American embassy, their private world of trust, understanding, and intimacy becomes yet another casualty of war.