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Part diary, part scientific journal, part detective story, part love story: The Case of Emily V is thoroughly post-modern in its deliberate blurring of the distinction between fact and fiction, its cavalier blending of literary genres. But Oatley's first novel also resembles old 19th-century literature. His characters are dynamic, his storylines complex and suspenseful, his social commentary broad and integral to the plot.

A young Floridian tells his story of working at a dress-making company to earn money for college. His colleagues, almost all Cuban, teach him about work and life as they "prepare him" for his big move to New York City.

This book involves a young man's coming of age during the 1960s, with the protests of the war in Vietnam always on his mind. It is a family in crisis with the young man trying to solve the family problems while still focusing on peace demonstrations.

 Based on Siegfried Kra's own childhood, Twilight in Danzig reveals life as a Jew during the beginning of Hitler's reign. Jonas Kruger's parents are scions of Danzig society, his father a coal merchant, his mother a lovely socialite. But the rise of Hitler forces them to examine their identity and face the most difficult decision of their lives: to stay in Germany in spite of Hitler's atrocities, to try to reform from within? Or to find a means of escape for the entire family, to flee penniless to a country that doesn't want them?