From one of England’s greatest living writers comes a new collection of exquisitely formed stories set in life’s great playground.
Relationships — clandestine and legitimate — are the theme: boorish chaps and their stalwart women ululate...
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Voici donc des histoires croisées, celle de Jérémie, en quête de Raphus cucullatus, alias l’oiseau de nausée, le dodo mauricien jadis exterminé par les humains, et celle de Dominique, alias Dodo, l’admirable hobo, né pour faire rire. Leur...
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Albert is nineteen, grew up in an orphanage, and never knew his mother. All his life Albert had to be a father to his father: Fred is a child trapped in the body of an old man. He spends his time reading encyclopedias, waves at green cars, and is...
“Of my generation I most admire Daniel Sada, whose writing project seems to me the most daring.” —Roberto Bolaño.
This Rabelaisian tale of lust and longing in the drier precincts of postwar Mexico introduces one of...
Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis’s inventive collection of short fiction, Almost No Memory. In each of these stories, Davis reveals an empathic, sometimes shattering...
At 59, Jerry Battle is coasting through life. His favorite pastime is flying his small plane high above Long Island. Aloft, he can escape from the troubles that plague his family, neighbors, and loved ones on the ground. But he can't stay in the...
Life was complicated enough in a group of physicians in the Maternal-Fetal Medicine division of the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque. Then, along came COVID.
Faith Pernitelli,...
A contemporary noir, Already Dead is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune. A relentless failure, Nelson has botched nearly every scheme he's attempted to pull off. Now his future...
Pilar, die Erzählerin des Romans Am Ufer des Rio Piedra saß ich und weinte, hat über die Jahre zu ihrem Jugendfreund nur losen Kontakt. Um so überraschter ist sie, als sie von ihm eine Einladung zu einem seiner Vorträge...