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Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsDeliciously creepy and masterfully complex The Wonder Garden heralds the arrival of a phenomenal new talent in American fiction.
by John Updike
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsJohn Updikes first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Fathers Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.
by Keith L. Morris
Published Oct 2008
Read ReviewsA dart contest on a Thursday night in Garnet Lake, Idaho brings together five very different characters, whose fates are threaded together more closely than they realize.
by John Banville
Published Aug 2006
Read ReviewsA luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory. Winner of the 2005 Booker Prize.
by Ian McEwan
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsAn astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
by Saul Bellow
Published May 2001
Read Reviews"No contemporary of ours is more consistently brilliant and more defiantly risky than Saul Bellow." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review
by John Lanchester
Published Apr 2001
Read ReviewsThe story of one day in the life of a decent man who only forty-eight hours before knew exactly who and what he was and who on this day wonders who and what he can become.
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