Amazon.com ReviewIn 1905, Stanley McCormick, heir to East Coast millions, is most definitely mad. Heredity and an early, horrifying glimpse of his naked sister have rendered him sc...
Amazon.com ReviewRed Mars opens with a tragic murder, an event that becomes the focal point for the surviving characters and the turning point in a long intrigue that pits id...
Review''A vivid 11-day account of a World War II holiday . . . A master chronicler, Weintraub's moody, intensively researched play- by-play narrative traces the final days of 1941....
Elkin's National Book Critics Circle Award–winning classic: The story of an elderly woman who suddenly becomes mixed up in a world of criminals and con artists After her beloved hu...
From BooklistNew York Times columnist and college professor Fish appreciates fine sentences the way some people appreciate fine wine. In 10 short chapters, Fish takes readers throu...
Amazon.com ReviewKim Stanley Robinson has earned a reputation as the master of Mars fiction, writing books that are scientific, sociological and, best yet, fantastic. Green Ma...
Review"A comedy that cuts so many ways that it leaves us bleeding with laughter." -- New York Times "A true artist . . . Stanley Elkin never lets us down. . . . I read...