USA: New England

George V. Higgins   Penance for Jerry Kennedy . Crime thriller written almost entirely in the dialogue of Boston lowlifes and crooked lawmen.

John Irving   The Cider House Rules . One of Irving's more successful sprawling novels, weaving themes of love, suffering, and the many facets of the abortion debate against a Maine backdrop.

H.P. Lovecraft   The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre . Creepy New England stories from the author Stephen King called "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."

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