In "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In "Blythe," an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a night class in poetry and meets another full-time mother,...
Darlene, a young widow and mother devastated by the death of her husband, turns to drugs to erase the trauma. In this fog of grief, she is lured with the promise of a great job to a mysterious farm run by a shady company, with disastrous...
In this remarkably nuanced novel, both a gripping detective story and a passionate, devastating tale of eros and insanity in Colombia, internationally acclaimed author Laura Restrepo delves into the minds of four characters. There's Agustina, a...
Et vous, quel est le truc le plus idiot que vous ayez fait de votre vie ?
Comme tout le monde, Julie a fait beaucoup de trucs stupides. Elle pourrait raconter la fois ou elle a enfilé un pull en dévalant des escaliers, celle ou elle a tenté...
Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler...
From Publishers Weekly
The central theme running through this collection of stories (many of which seem to be primarily nonfiction with elements of fiction thrown in) by the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's...
Among the swirl of ethnic weddings at a marriage mill in Connecticut, grief-stricken employee Andrew Wakefield plans an evil revenge against his dead sister's fiancé that involves a chicken mask and human ashes. Andrew, the central...
Wie der Bestseller Die Möwe Jonathan präsentiert Der Alchimist eine schlichte, auf einfachen Wahrheiten beruhende Fabel, gibt ihr aber einen höchst ungewöhnlichen Rahmen. Und obwohl wir hier das Rezept für einen Bestseller...
Bademeister ist Sixten Braun erst auf dem zweiten Bildungsweg geworden. Dazu brauchte es zwei beinahe tödliche Unfälle, eine große Liebe und eine lieblose Ehe. Aber all das musste wohl sein, damit er werden konnte, was er werden sollte —...