Il excelle dans la vérité des portraits, parfois allégoriques (Jean-Baptiste Belley, Mademoiselle Lange en Danaé), souvent intimes — le fils de son père adoptif a été peint à trois époques: .
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien immerses readers in a riotous, tumultuous narrative. The protagonist is a lazy student from Dublin, often drunk and content in his bed. He plans to write .
After graduating from high school, Sachar enrolled in Antioch College in Ohio. Soon after classes began, his father died suddenly and Sachar returned to California to be with his mother. The .