Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions — sexual, racial, political, artistic — that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women,...
"A HIT!" the German admiral said.
An enormous pillar of smoke arose from the stricken HOOD, England's largest, most powerful battlecruiser. Bow and stern lifted high out of the water, as the ship's waist disappeared. Fragments of men and armor...
Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American ficiton as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer.
In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel...
Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie.
Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his...