Books By Benjamin Markovits
List of 5 best books written by Benjamin Markovits. Check out the booklist.
1. A Weekend in New York
Paul Essinger is a mid-ranking tennis professional on the ATP tour. His girlfriend Dana is an ex-model and photographer, and the mother of their two-year-old son, Cal. Together they form a tableau of the contented upper-middle-class New York family. But summer storms are blowing through Manhattan, and Paul’s parents have come to stay in the build-up to the US Open. Over the course of the weekend, several generations of domestic tension are brought to boiling point . . .
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2. You Don’t Have To Live Like This
Ten years out of Yale, with an extra degree from Oxford, and all Greg Marnier has to show for it is a rambling academic career that has landed him in Aberystwyth. At his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk, he runs into an old friend who offers him an extraordinary way out.
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3. Imposture
As the pair fall in love, Polidori knows that he can only emerge from Byron’s shadow if he confesses his true identity to the deluded girl; but was it only Byron’s shadow that led her to love him in the first place? And a ghost story, The Vampyre, is published under Byron’s name, but will the truth of the matter be uncovered?
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4. Playing Days
Fresh out of college and uncertain how to proceed with life, the narrator of Ben Markovits’ Playing Days finds himself drifting towards a career that once obsessed his father – professional basketball. Gaining a place on a minor league German team, he leaves Texas and lands in the small rather desolate town of Landshut, playing basketball with an eclectic group of teammates, training for most of the day and then trying to find ways to fill the rest of it.
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5. A Quiet Adjustment
Nineteen-year -old Annabella Milbanke, visiting London for the swirl of parties and engagements of the season, is introduced to Byron at a waltz. He has just published Childe Harold, and is surrounded by a crowd of admirers, one of whom is his half-sister Augusta Leigh. Annabella and Byron fall in love, but Augusta’s unwelcome presence in their relationship becomes increasingly unbearable. Caught up in a potentially scandalous love triangle, Annabella must decide whether following her heart is the most dangerous thing she has ever done . . .
