My friend, lawyer, and fellow writer Gary Delafield handed me a great—and true—premise for a short-short about an old woman and the unusual advice she gets from her lawyer. Hijinks ensue.
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Set just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, determined to defend the virtue of his cheating sister-in-law at any cost....
Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured Irish novels of the last decade, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. Featuring drinking, greyhound racing,...
"Rich in character and incident, An Ice-Cream War fulfills the ambition of the historical novel at its best."
— The New York Times Book Review
Booker Prize Finalist
"Boyd has more than fulfilled the bright promise of...
In the first century AD, Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant
poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the
Black Sea. From these sparse facts, one of our most distinguished...
Mona Gray was ten when her father contracted a mysterious illness and she became a quitter, abandoning each of her talents just as pleasure became intense. The only thing she can't stop doing is math: She knocks on wood, adds her steps, and...
Marriage wasn’t for her; she was happy with her career and her secluded retreat. But if one man believed her, another...
How does an Italian become Italian? Or an Englishman English, for that matter? Are foreigners born, or made? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives, building a fascinating...
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other...
The sexes battle, the mind feuds with emotions it cannot control and crime extorts and strikes and kills but it does not pay in this collection of stories by Rex Stout at the outset of his celebrated career in mystery and suspense. Again and again...