Jerry Stevens, an out-of-work bit-part movie actor - with several lousy Westerns to his credit - is offered a job at one thousand dollars a day to impersonate John Merril Ferguson, one of the richest and most powerful men in the world. It is...
Zoë Wicomb's complex and deeply evocative fiction is among the most distinguished recent works of South African women's literature. It is also among the only works of fiction to explore the experience of "Coloured" citizens in apartheid-era South...
Small-town sheriff J. C. Harrow made headlines when he apprehended a would-be presidential assassin — only to come home that night and find his wife and son brutally murdered. This tragic twist of fate launched his career as the host of reality...
An unnerving and riveting psychological drama that challenges our notions of how we view others and how we construct our own sense of self.
Mia is an elementary schoolteacher in Denmark, while her husband, Frederik, is the talented,...
A frighteningly prescient novel of today’s America — one man’s story of a racially-charged real estate experiment in Detroit, Michigan.
“You get in the habit of living a certain kind of life, you keep going in a certain direction, but...
Helen Chalmers had the kind of looks and body, which could make a man do almost everything she wanted. So when she asked pressman Ed Dawson to spend a month alone with her, in a scheduled Italian villa, he found himself accepting—even though it...
Holly Evans has just seen her own body laid to rest. Now she would like to move onto the afterlife. But apparently she has some mortal baggage to unload first, starting with the matter of how she died. Her heavenly shrink isn't buying that she...
Holly Evans has just seen her own body laid to rest. Now she would like to move onto the afterlife. But apparently she has some mortal baggage to unload first, starting with the matter of how she died. Her heavenly shrink isn't buying that she...