The acclaimed author of Jesus' Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern university who has been patient in his grief after an...
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One week ago I thought I knew exactly how I was going to spend the rest of my life: looking at the gray walls of a prison cell. Figuring out how to survive the apocalypse wasn’t something I’d planned for.
Yet here I was, getting a...
In Her Absence - "[A] translucent novel of passion, illusion and social class….slyly witty and luminous."
— Francine Prose in O, The Oprah Magazine
During working hours, Mario is a dutiful...
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One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement. In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At...
Little did Ellis Morgan’s wife know what she was in for when a famous beauty came back into her husband’s...
Taking place during World War II, Somewhere in the Stars is the story of three young men from San Francisco—Nick Spataro, his cousin Paolo, and friend Nathan Fein—and their adventures as members of an American tank battalion chasing the Germans...
A mythological masterpiece about dedication and the disintegration of romantic affection.
In this magnificent epic poem, John Gardner renders his interpretation of the ancient story of Jason and Medeia. Confined in the palace of King Creon, and...