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,...
Long-listed for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
"A wonderful debut . . . Undeniably moving and emotionally true." - Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)
Most of us have experienced what it's like to know what someone is going...
It starts with a mystery: an old manor house is surrounded by an impenetrable bubble, and all that lives within it seems to wither and die.
Investigating, the Army find two men inside the house: men who vanished some 100 years ago but who have...
To her latest novel, Beattie brings the same documentary accuracy and Chekhovian wit and tenderness that have made her one of the most acclaimed portraitists of contemporary American life. Marshall Lockard, a professor at the local college, is...
Es war schon dunkel, als ich in Bonn ankam, ich zwang mich, meine Ankunft nicht mit der Automatik ablaufen zu lassen, die sich in fünfjährigem Unterwegssein herausgebildet hat: Bahnsteigtreppe runter, Bahnsteigtreppe rauf, Reisetasche abstellen,...
P.B. Jones discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. Living by his wits and his charm, Jones makes his way through the exotic boudoirs of the glitterati — only to discover that the prayers that are...
Claire Keegan's debut collection of short stories, Antartica is a varied, often challenging, series of reflections on the drama, and violence, of everyday lives: the love affairs which tempt women, and men, to leave their marriages, the cruel...