FICTION
Released: June 7, 2011
"Thrilling, disturbing and moving in equal measures--even better than Patchett's breakthrough Bel Canto (2001)."
A pharmacologist travels into the Amazonian heart of darkness in this spellbinder from bestselling author Patchett (
Run, 2007, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: June 7, 2011
"Bolton (Blood Harvest, 2010, etc.) provides excruciating tension and much else. Romantics can drool over Jonesbury's turquoise eyes; amateur psychologists can mull Lacey's one-nighters; and Ripperologists can ponder theories of Jack's real identity, one of which helps tie up the plot."
FICTION
Released: June 9, 2011
"To read this novel is to enter a Borgesian rabbit hole--it's a fiction that purports to tell the truth obscured by another fiction--yet its strangeness helps make it both brave and engaging."
An ambitious picaresque tale about civil war, love, propaganda and the Panama Canal, delivered with verve and wit.
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FICTION
Released: June 21, 2011
"Written with piercing beauty, alive with moral passion and sorrowful insight--a rueful masterpiece."
In his magnificent first novel, poet Majmudar (
O°, O°, 2009) embodies the terrible days following the partition of India and Pakistan in the stories of four refugees from sectarian violence.
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FICTION
Released: June 21, 2011
"Think Hemingway or Jim Harrison, and know that Ray's collection is the deserving winner of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize."
Ray's stories resonate hard and clear, very much word images reflecting the Montana setting of the collection.
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FICTION
Released: June 30, 2011
"A fine collection of stories."
Following his dazzling debut, Ross drops seven more doses of disquieting fears and misleading hopes.
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