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This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century - and a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world.
by Hernan Diaz
Published May 2023
An unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception.
by Alison MacLeod
Published Aug 2022
For readers of A Gentleman in Moscow and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, an ambitious, spellbinding historical novel about sensuality, censorship, and the novel that set off the sexual revolution.
by Nicole Krauss
Published Nov 2021
In this dazzling collection of short fiction, the National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love - "one of America's most important novelists and an international literary sensation" (New York Times) - explores what it means to be in a couple, and to be a man and a woman in that perplexing relationship and...
by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
Published Oct 2018
A novel of suspense that explores the complexities of marriage and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love.
by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Published Aug 2015
A striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning.
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Published Sep 2012
With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives.
by Jane Smiley
Published Jun 2011
A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinner that traverses the intimate landscape of one womans life, from the 1880s to World War II.
by Ann Packer
Published Apr 2003
Elegantly written and ferociously paced, emotionally nuanced and morally complex - marks the emergence of a prodigiously gifted new novelist.
by Elizabeth Berg
Published May 2001
A love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.
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