The legendary writer’s first collection in more than ten years — and, finally, the definitive one. A literary event of the highest order.
Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as...
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When she finds out about the asteroid headed for Earth, Lucy knows that her family are some of the lucky ones. They have a farm, away from the chaos of the cities, with abundant food and fuel, and good weather. But finding out you're all probably...
“Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.”
— David Rollow, Boston Sunday Globe
From the Pulitzer Prize — winning author: the...
New fiction 6,500-word story from Stephen King.
Brenda should be happy. The kids are quiet, the road stretches ahead of her like an airport runway, she's behind the wheel of a brand-new van. The speedometer reads 70. Nonetheless, that...
WINNER OF THE 2000 BOOKER PRIZE
Even Zenia’s name is enough to provoke the old sense of outrage, of humiliation and confused pain. The truth is that at certain times—early mornings, the middle of the night—she finds it hard to believe...
Heart Of The...
SEVEN GLOBE-SPANNING TALES THAT DEFY REALITY
Viktor Chemayev is a sad-eyed, heavy-drinking romantic who refuses to stay beat. In the title novella of this extraordinary collection, he goes head-to-head with an Irish assassin in the depths of a...
В сборник вошли рассказы Уильяма Сидни Портера (1862–1910), известного читателям как О’Генри.
До сих пор вызывают интерес стиль и...
Twenty-year-old Skyler saw the incident out her window: Some sort of metalic object hovering over the Golden Gate Bridge just before it collapsed and a mushroom cloud lifted above the city. Like everyone, she ran, but she couldn't outrun the...
The new novel by the author of the best-selling Love, Dad is a love story, compelling and deeply felt, about a man who comes to terms with his own life and his own marriage through the death of his father. It is the story of David Weber, a...