Bøger af David Rubin

This collection of three short stories features David Rubin's keen insights into human nature by following a young Robert Dallary from the Florida coast to Manhattan, where he enters the elite social circle of his uncle, Frank. In 'Cerberus Shoals' we find a broke Robert gaining employment on a small boat smuggling questionable goods. His interactions with the captain, Tote Walmus, and his not-so-faithful wife, Georgie, along with her dependably drunk father, Poley, carry this adventurous story along. Robert receives many initiations en route to his destination. In 'Princess Nashreen at Home' we find Robert employed and living in New York City, thanks to Uncle Frank, who has made his recent fortune running gambling operations even though he himself does not gamble. Robert does take a gamble, however, when connecting with the Iranian and Egyptian royalty, Princess Nashreen. Finally, in 'A Rehearsal, ' we find Robert facing an existential dilemma: remain in these elite surroundings with his Hungarian Jewish girlfriend, Judy Aranyi, or break out to pursue his passion: the piano. His Russian teacher, Madame Dolgoruki, helps him pursue his destiny-that which, he learns, he creates for himself.

"It hadn't changed, this Indian night world, and it remained indescribable to anyone who hadn't lived in it. Because to be here, in it, you felt different, you were different. Different things were important, like now, something dense and engulfing in the night, an overwhelming aloneness you couldn't decide was ecstatic or terrifying." These words were left behind by David Rubin for the back cover of one of his final unpublished manuscripts. In On Indian Time we return to the mythical Indian city of Gauhar, where Tony Archer has been assigned to work as an American diplomat. Only Archer was born in Gauhar and knows the territory and people-natives and a host of European expats-all too well. In this gripping tale of political corruption, romance, social strife, and mystery, Archer also becomes trapped by the enticing lore the city holds in his own quest for self-realization-a quest he's not sure he's up to taking.

While pursuing his degree, Joe Wheelwright decides to dabble in astrology to make extra cash. Though he is agnostic on the power of stars and planets to predict human fate, his clients are anything but. What follows is an insider's gaze at the intelligentsia of mid-20th century New York City - their feet anchored in brick and pavement while their minds spin with Eastern mysticism. David Rubin brilliantly dissects the paradoxes of human nature in a comic adventure in which everyone fancies one another while no one trusts a soul. Propelled by sex, secrets, musical compulsions and occult yearnings, they remind the reader that all humans carry contradictions the stars themselves can't untangle.

David Rubin's imagination runs free in this novel about a fictional Caribbean island, St. Michael Amargas, located at the end of the Great Breakaway Reef. Charlie Sanderson returns after many years to visit his family's business, Sanderson's Breakaway Reef Hotel. This is no congenial visit, however: Charlie's running from something in America; his last recourse is to confront his father once again. In his most politically-charged thriller, Rubin explores the complex intertwined realities of family life, colonialism, politics, and romance. Charlie stumbles his way through murder, conspiracy, and espionage.

Everyone is running from something at the Jacaranda, a low-key summer getaway in Hesper Key on the gulf side in Florida. Stella Hennessey took over operations when her gambling husband disappeared, relying on the income of a cast of characters that summer in this out-of-the-way enclave. That is, until Frank Dallary finds himself on the run after a failed coup and in need of a hideout. Only this is a calculated move: Frank's long-lost, unsuspecting nephew, Robert, works for Stella. Uncle Frank wants to inspire Robert's piano career with his wide range of contacts but has to approach the situation carefully, as Robert is filled with the same temperamental Dallary blood. Meanwhile Frank seems a bit over his head with Stella, who has plans of her own. Part romance, part murder mystery, part family reunion, and all around adventure story, this is one of David Rubin's most fully realized novels, introducing the world to the tangled web of the Dallary family, which would continue in his writings throughout his life.

When a mysterious book, The End of Professor Salamandra, starts circulating around Southern State University's Manhattan campus, it's immediately apparent the professor in question is really the verbose Albie Mandragore. Suspicions arise that Mandragore's longtime rival, Charles Greenfield, is the author-their long-standing family feud stretches from pre-war Vienna to New York City of the seventies. Yet no one at the university is spared from gossip, betrayal, and romantic confusion by David Rubin's pen in this insightful, page-turning tale.

A mysterious letter shows up from Jane Farrington postmarked Calcutta; that's the last anyone has heard from her. Nicholas Bowman, a 'useless' heir to the family fortune, is sent by Jane's mother to rescue her from India. Unemployed and unmotivated, Nicholas decides to take the bait. He ends up finding Jane-and losing her, and finding her-and much, much more. With his deep knowledge of Indian culture and philosophy, David Rubin creates a fantastical world filled with political and social criticism set beside the eternal quest for meaning humans have engaged in as long as we've been on this planet. -- The David Rubin Collection seeks to assemble the fiction, non-fiction, translations and poetry of the late American novelist and scholar David Rubin. While best known for his translations of Indian writers Premchand and Nirala, David was also a master storyteller. His 1963 novel, The Greater Darkness, won the British Authors' Club award for that year's best first novel. He remained a prolific writer until his death in 2008. His works are archived at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.

Alex Tanner is a Professor of Classics at Yale University. A previous run for office in Connecticut bore no fruit, though he still maintains a connection with politics. For this reason he's invited onto the Golden American, a luxury boat that, unbeknownst to him, is filled with potential donors for his former college friend's bid for President. Deceit, murder, and a poisonous snake on the loose-well, many snakes, in a sense-fill this adventurous, nail-biting voyage. David Rubin displays an inimitable grasp of high society and all its follies in this page-turning epic that stands up perfectly in today's charged political climate, reminding us once again that the wealthy buying and selling elections is nothing new.

A science-minded adventurer gets mixed up in the mysteries of a fantasy world in this charming new adventure from an award-winning creative team. Boone Dias is an interdimensional explorer, a scientist from Earth who has stumbled into great responsibility. He's got an explanation for everything, so of course the Ether's magical residents turn to him to solve their toughest crimes. But maybe keeping the Real and the Abstract separate is too big a job for just one man.From New York Times bestselling author Matt Kindt: an inter-dimensional, genre-bending, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, mystery adventure! From New York Times bestselling author Matt Kindt (MIND MGMT, PastAways, Superspy, Dept. H) Stunning artwork from David Rubín brings a magical world to life.Collects Issues #1-5 of Matt Kindt and David Rubín's Ether