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by Daniel Woodrell
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by Adam Johnson
Published Oct 2016
Read ReviewsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed and bestselling novel The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson is one of America's most provocative and powerful authors. In Fortune Smiles - his first book since Orphan Master - he continues to give voice to characters rarely heard from, while offering something we all seek from fiction: a new way of ...
by David Vann
Published Oct 2014
Read ReviewsDavid Vann creates a haunting and provocative novel that explores our most primal urges and beliefs, the bonds of blood and religion that define and secure us, and the consequences of our actions - what we owe for what we've done.
by Brian Castner
Published Apr 2013
Read ReviewsIn the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming that grabs readers by the throat even as it touches their hearts.
by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsJoydeep Roy-Bhattacharya's heartbreaking and haunting novel, The Watch, takes a timeless tragedy and hurls it into present-day Afghanistan, giving us a gripping tour through the reality of this very contemporary conflict, and our most powerful expression to date of the nature and futility of war.
by Tupelo Hassman
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsTupelo Hassmans Girlchild is a heart-stopping and original debut.
by Ron Rash
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsThis lyrical, heart-rending tale, as mesmerizing as its award-winning predecessor Serena, shows once again this masterful novelist at the height of his powers.
by Thomas Lynch
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsHeart-rending stories of life and death: a debut fiction collection by the award-winning author of The Undertaking.
by Cormac McCarthy
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsA harrowing story of a war that society is waging on itself, and an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, No Country for Old Men is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.
by Tim Gautreaux
Published May 2004
Read ReviewsSet in a harsh landscape that engenders raw emotions, this gritty tale is by turns wise, violent, and compassionate ... a darkly atmospheric novel that explores the evil done unto men and the evil they in turn do to others.
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