NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"An unfailingly elegant and thoughtful collection of essays from the formidable mind of Franzen, written with passion and haunted by loss."
FICTION
Released: April 4, 2008
"An eye for detail, ear for dialogue and command of family dynamics distinguish this uncommonly rich collection."
Lahiri (
The Namesake, 2003, etc.) extends her mastery of the short-story format in a collection that has a novel's thematic cohesion, narrative momentum and depth of character.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 30, 2007
"Ridiculously entertaining. If the movie people don't snap this one up, somebody's asleep at the switch."
In his ongoing crusade to reanimate tales of adventure set in days of yore, Chabon (
The Yiddish Policemen's Union, 2007, etc.) offers an ebullient yarn that blithely defies probability, while plundering from innumerable semi-literary sources.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2007
"A page-turning noir, with a twist of Yiddish, that satisfies on many levels."
Imagine a mutant strain of Dashiell Hammett crossed with Isaac Bashevis Singer, as one of the most imaginative contemporary novelists extends his fascination with classic pulp.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 5, 2006
"Quirky, funny, poignant, self-deprecating and ultimately wise."
Novelist Franzen (
The Corrections, 2001, etc.) displays his mastery of nonfiction in this compact, affecting memoir, which begins with the aftermath of his mother's death and ends with a quiet epiphany about love.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 16, 2003
"A disappointingly bland follow-up to a stellar story collection."
A first novel from Pulitzer-winner Lahiri (stories:
Interpreter of Maladies, 1999) focuses on the divide between Indian immigrants and their Americanized children.
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