FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2009
"An evocative meditation on the nonlinear nature of a life."
Elderly New Englander on his deathbed finds his thoughts drifting back to the father who abandoned the family when he was 12.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2004
"Robinson has composed, with its cascading perfections of symbols, a novel as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and moving as prayer. Matchless and towering."
The wait since 1981 and
Housekeeping is over. Robinson returns with a second novel that, however quiet in tone and however delicate of step, will do no less than tell the story of America--and break your heart.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 16, 2003
"Skilled and graceful exploration of the soul of an astonishing human being."
Full-immersion journalist Kidder (
Home Town, 1999, etc.) tries valiantly to keep up with a front-line, muddy-and-bloody general in the war against infectious disease in Haiti and elsewhere.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2000
" Useful for scholars and for admirers of Warren's work who are very familiar with the author's life and career. (b&w photos, not seen)"
Ten years of essentially unrevealing letters from a formative period of the poet and novelist best known for
All the King's Men and as the first Poet Laureate of the United States.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 1998
"Hardly a false note in an extraordinary carrying on of a true greatness that doubted itself."
Steeped in the work and life of Virginia Woolf, Cunningham (
Flesh and Blood, 1995, etc.) offers up a sequel to the work of the great author, complete with her own pathos and brilliance.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 1998
"For readers who are new to Stegner's environmental work, this is as good an introduction as any."
NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 7, 1998
"McPherson has traveled the world and never lost sight of the inspirational lure of one's origins."
McPherson, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning short-story collection Elbow Room (1977), writes here with an astonishing range of language and emotion.
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FICTION
Released: May 12, 1997
"American fiction."
Roth's elegiac and affecting new novel, his 18th, displays a striking reversal of form—and content—from his most recent critical success, the Portnoyan Sabbath's Theater (1995).
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 1994
"At best, middle-brow fiction in the O'Hara-Cozzens mold."
After years of litigation between the publisher and Cheever's estate, this collection of 13 stories now in the public domain proves something of a disappointment.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 4, 1991
"With the Bard's peak moments—the storm, a blinding, etc.—a potent tragedy immaculate in characters, stately pace, and lowering ambiance."
