SUMMARY: Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: they’re true. Only it’s not like the mo...
From Publishers WeeklyLeonard Lessing, the British protagonist of Crace's surprisingly bad 10th novel (after The Pesthouse), has Walter Mitty–like dreams of being a revolutionary ....
A new collection of stories by Mavis Gallant is always a major publishing event. For this is the writer who–like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro–has made Canadian short stories ...
"Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll abs...
A year ago Holly Barrows had raced through a raging snowstorm -- convinced someone was trying to kill her -- into the arms of Slade Rawlins. She'd appeared before him like a beauti...
Product DescriptionTheir husbands were gone, their families were grown, and the future stretched out before them like an unfulfilled promise...Tired of always...
From Publishers WeeklyA_Big Chill_–like group reunites for a 40-something wedding in this melancholy story of missed opportunities, lingering regrets and imagined alternatives by S...
One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the...
Product DescriptionMel and her mother, Cecily, know what it’s like to live rough, whether it’s on the streets or in the apartment of an abusive man.When Cecily announces that they’...