A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a nearly complete rewrite of the abandoned Stephen Hero novel, the original manuscript of which was partially destroyed in a fit of rage during an argument with Nora. A kunstlerroman, or story of the...
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The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my...
SEVEN TO REMEMBER... ANDREA — a girl who took everything her lover had to give her, and then took more... WYATT — a man drowning in his own success, grasping at one final moment of pleasure... NORRIE — who was so innocent and so trusting, and...
Set in contemporary New Orleans but working its way back in time, A Small Hotel chronicles the relationship between Michael and Kelly Hays, who have decided to separate after twenty-four years of marriage. The book begins on the day that the Hays...
This tale of an exotic adventure undertaken in the face of tragedy includes a revealing portrait of Conrad Aiken’s friend and protégé Malcolm Lowry.
Blomberg has loved Noni for what seems like his whole life. He loves her like he loves the...
By Night The Mountain Burns recounts the narrator’s childhood on a remote island off the West African coast, living with his mysterious grandfather, several mothers and no fathers. We learn of a dark chapter in the island’s history: a bush fire...
The first novel by one of the greatest writers of Latin American literature is a semiautobiographical story reflecting the energy and chaos of early 20th-century Buenos Aires.
Feeling the alienation of youth, Silvio Astier's gang tours...
Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award 2012.
Nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
Nominated for the Debut-Litzer Fiction Prize.
An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2012 Editors' Pick.
A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers...
Kelly scavenges for scrap metal from the hundred thousand abandoned buildings in a part of Detroit known as “the zone,” an increasingly wild landscape where one day he finds something far more valuable than the copper he’s come to steal: a...
"Sergio Pitol is not only our best active storyteller, he is also the bravest renovator of our literature." — Álvaro Enrigue, Letras Libres
Pitol is unfathomable; it could almost be said that he is a literature entire of himself." —...