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The Mystic Masseur - V. S. Naipaul
Review?One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.??Mel Gussow, Newsday ?For sheer abundance of talent, there can hardly be a writer ali... -
The Magic Kingdom - Stanley Elkin
Review“A splendid work of fiction.” —_Newsday_“Hysterical and profound . . . Earns its place among the dark voyages that fiction must chronicle.” —_The New York Times_P... -
The Love You Make - Peter Brown
Here is the national bestseller that Newsday called the most authoritative and candid look yet at the personal livesof the oft-scrutinized group. In The Love You Make, Peter Brown,... -
The Last Juror - John Grisham
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1970, small town newspaper The Clanton Times went belly up. With financial assistance from a rich relative, it's purchased by 23-year-old Willie Traynor, forme.... -
The Last Dickens - Matthew Pearl
SUMMARY: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens’s sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arriva... -
The Increment_ A Novel - David Ignatius
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The New York Times bestseller: “A remarkably timely and pulse-quickening tale of deception, divided loyalty, and moral haziness.”—Raleigh News & Observer Harry Pa... -
The Harvest Gypsies_ On the Roa - John Steinbeck; Charles Wollenb
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Recently listed in the Top 100 List of the Century's Best American Journalism Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm worke... -
The Empty Family - Colm Toibin
'I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stre... -
The Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor
Review"What we lost when she died is bitter. What we have is astonishing: the stories burn brighter than ever, and strike deeper." --Walter Clemons, Newsweek-- Review -
The Coffins of Little Hope - Timothy Schaffert
Timothy Schaffert has created his most memorable character yet in Essie, an octogenarian obituary writer for her family's small town newspaper. When a young country girl is reporte...