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Water_ The Epic Struggle for We - Steven Solomon
From Publishers WeeklyThis sprawling text reconstructs the history of civilization in order to illuminate the importance of water in human development from the first civilizations ... -
Wizard - John Varley
SUMMARY: In the second novel of the Gaean trilogy, human explorers have entered the sprawling mind of Gaea. Now they must fight her will. For she is much too powerful . . . and def... -
The Last Page - Anthony Huso
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The city of Isca is set like a dark jewel in the crown of the Duchy of Stonehold. In this sprawling landscape, the monsters one sees are nothing compared to what’... -
Standing in the Rainbow - Fannie Flagg
From Publishers WeeklyFrom the talented storyteller whose Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe became a beloved bestseller and a successful film comes a sprawling, feel-go... -
South of Broad - Pat Conroy
SUMMARY: The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship... -
Russka_ The Novel of Russia - Edward Rutherfurd
From Publishers WeeklyRutherfurd weaves an expansive tapestry of Russian lore in this sprawling, occasionally soap-operatic historical novel--a seven-week PW bestseller and a Liter... -
Red Serpent_ The Falsifier - Delson Armstrong
Review "A sprawling epic...action packed and romantic...twists through vast swathes of time, space and metaphysics. A great read for sci-fi lovers everywhere." --awa... -
London - Edward Rutherfurd
Amazon.com ReviewEdward Rutherfurd belongs to the James Michener school: he writes big, sprawling history-by- the-pound. His novel, London, stretches two millennia all the wa... -
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
SUMMARY:In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophi... -
Hiding Man_ A Biography of Dona - Tracy Daugherty
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This sprawling first biography of the writer Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) complements an exemplary account of the man and his milieu with a hi...