Literary Fiction

Eveningland Michael Knight

EVENINGLAND: STORIES is a dazzling collection of short fiction that has been hailed across America as one of the best of its genre.

 

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At Briarwood School for Girls Michael Knight

AT BRIARWOOD SCHOOL FOR GIRLS is the story of a young woman at an all-girls boarding school in 1994...

Soil Jamie Kornegay

SOIL is a dark, disturbing, and magnificent work a from powerful new Southern voice. Set in the Mississippi Delta, it's reminiscent of William Gay - at his maturity.

 

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To Be a Man: Stories Nicole Krauss

TO BE A MAN: STORIES is a marvelous collection from a contemporary master. Krauss runs the gamit of thorny connections between men and women, illustrating the forces that drive human existance. The reader will greedily digest tales of sex, power, violence, passion, self-discovery and growing older.  ...

Roman Stories Jhumpa Lahiri

ROMAN STORIES is the long awaited collection by the master of the form. The Pulitzer Prize winner chose to write these treasures in her adopted language of Italian and translate them herself into English. The last selected piece might have been guided by the ghost of Dante Alighieri.

 

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Dissident Gardens Jonathan Lethem

DISSIDENT GARDENS follows an extremely left leaning (can you say Communist?)  protagonist through the decades. For his mother and daughter, the line between personal and political is difficult to distinguish.

 

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A Gambler's Anatomy Jonathan Lethem

A GAMBLER'S ANATOMY is a whopper of an entertaining story about an "amateur" player traveling the world winning huge sums at swanky backgammon  tables - until his luck turns.

 

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The Feral Detective Jonathan Lethem

THE FERAL DETECTIVE is a mystery written by one of our greatest prosists, and his first in nearly two decades. It is the story of an eccentric gumshoe hired by a young spitfire of a woman to find her friend's missing daughter, and the bizarre adventures that the search leads them on.

 

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The Arrest Jonathan Lethem

THE ARREST is a fantastic story set in a postapocalyptic future, where much of our modern inventions...

Honey Victor Lodato

HONEY follows the glamerous daughter of a New Jersey mobster who leaves a world of art and beauty to return home in her twilight years. She deals with her violent past in this deeply moving portrait of some things never changing.

 

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