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by John Lanchester
Published Mar 2020
The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time.
by Bob Shacochis
Published Jul 2014
A magnum opus that brings to life an intricate portrait of catastrophic events that led up to the war on terror and the America we are today.
by Toni Morrison
Published Jan 2013
A taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.
by Daniel Woodrell
Published Oct 2012
Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" (Associated Press) American master.
by Andre Dubus III
Published Feb 2012
An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him - until he was saved by writing.
by Jonathan Lethem
Published Aug 2010
The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.
by Richard Hawke
Published Feb 2007
In his brilliantly paced and stunningly original debut, Richard Hawke delivers a tale of flawed and unforgettable people operating at the ends of their ropes. It's literary suspense that doesn't let go until the last page.
by Francine Prose
Published Feb 2006
Masterfully plotted, darkly comic, A Changed Man illuminates the everyday transactions in our lives, exposing what remains invisible in plain sight in our drug-addled and media-driven culture.
by Elizabeth Gaffney
Published Feb 2006
Captures the splendor and violence of New York in the years after the Civil War, as young immigrants climb out of urban chaos and into the American dream.
by Chuck Palahniuk
Published Jun 2002
From the author of the international sensation Fight Club, a powerful (and hilarious) novel about love and strife between mothers and sons, the addictive power of sex, the terrors of aging, the ugly truth about historical theme parks, and much else. (Excerpt contains explicit content).
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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