Batman readers were allowed to vote on the outcome of the story and they decided that Robin should die! As the second person to assume the role of Batman's sidekick, Jason Todd had a completely different personality than the original Robin.
The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet...remains in the mind."--New Republic "People I know who read A Death in the Family forty years ago still talk about it. So do I. It is a great book, and I'm happy to see it done anew.
The Death of the Family
Walsh and McGoldrick have fully revised and expanded this landmark work on the impact of death on the family system.
A death in the family can result in profound and enduring impacts on the future of those left behind.
Pulitzer Prize-winner 1957. "Brilliant, moving ... It is wonderfully alive." - The New Yorker. Over forty years after its original publication, James Agee's last novel seems, more than ever, an...
In this utterly remarkable novel Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with painful honesty about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and ...
In The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, artist Margareta Magnusson, with Scandinavian humor and wisdom, instructs readers to embrace minimalism.
My big Viking hadn't been himself in a week or two . Something other than the death of his maker was bothering him , but I hadn't built up enough courage to ask him what was wrong . I'd cut myself some slack . I'd simply wanted to enjoy ...
Set amidst the dark beauty of modern Botswana, A Death in the Family is a thrilling insight into a world of riots, corruption, and greed, as a complex series of murders presents the opera-loving detective with his most challenging case yet.