SUMMARY:A pacy literary thriller, 'The Buried Circle' is a gripping blend of fact and fiction, peopled with extraordinary characters.The village of Avebury is one of the mos...
The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"-not to mention an official Genius-a trade paperback original and his first nonfiction collection ever.George Saunders's firs...
SUMMARY: The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to...
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, September 2011: Though The Art of Fielding is his fiction debut, Chad Harbach writes with the self-assurance of a...
Amazon.com ReviewFictional life, according to Jack Bickham, is better than real life. You don't get struck by lightning. You are not subject to random acts of cruelty. Events proce...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: From legendary editor Ellen Datlow, Tails of Wonder collects the best of the last thirty years of science fiction and fantasy stories about cats from an all-star ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The author of two critically acclaimed novels, **The Russian Debutante’s Handbook** and **Absurdistan**, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world...
FromStarred Review Whether he's writing Hap Collins-Leonard Pine mysteries, genre-bending horror novels, or his own blend of historical fiction and gritty country noir, cult-favor....
A dazzling work of fiction from a scientist who has shaped his considerable knowledge into equally considerable art: brief vignettes that present a stunning array of possible world...
The collected fiction of "one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe" (Cynthia Ozick) Bruno Schulz's untimely death at the hands of a Nazi stands as one of the great lo...