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At Last
A Novel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
One of The Telegraph’s Best Fiction Books 2011 Here, from the writer described by The Guardian as “our purest living prose stylist” and whom Alan Hollinghurst...
  
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Alibis
Essays on Elsewhere

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a luminous series...
  
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The Guilty Plea
A Novel

Sarah Crichton Books
With The Guilty Plea, a gripping sequel to the international bestseller Old City Hall, Robert Rotenberg has delivered another sharp, suspenseful legal thriller...
  
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East of the West
A Country in Stories

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A grandson tries to buy the corpse of Lenin on eBay for his Communist grandfather. A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from an Orthodox church. A boy...
  
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The Druggist of Auschwitz
A Documentary Novel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Dieter Schlesak’s haunting novel The Druggist of Auschwitz—beautifully translated from the German by John Hargraves—is a frighteningly vivid portrayal of the...
  
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In Praise of Reading and Fiction
The Nobel Lecture

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lLecture is a resounding tribute to fiction’s power to inspire...
  
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False Papers

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Essays on memory by the author of Our of Egypt "We remember not because we have something we wish to go back to, nor because memories are all we have. We...
  
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The Way to Paradise
A Novel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A New York Times Notable Book Flora Tristán, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru...
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The Cubs and Other Stories

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The Cubs and Other Stories is Mario Vargas Llosa’s only volume of short fiction available in English. Vargas Llosa’s domain is the Peru of male youth and...
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The Feast of the Goat
A Novel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself...

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Fragments
Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

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Fragments is an event—an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death,...
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Silk Parachute

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A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEE’S PROSE PIECES—IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES The brief, brilliant essay “Silk Parachute,” which first...
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The Savage Detectives
A Novel

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New Year’s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their...
  
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Life Times
Stories, 1952-2007

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A stunning selection of the best short fiction from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature This collection of Nadine Gordimer’s short fiction...
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Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker
The Complete Correspondence

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I sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc.—with heaps of used commas and semicolons handy, and little...
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Personal Injuries

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A gripping, suspenseful, deeply satisfying new novel about corruption, deceit, and love. Robbie Feaver (pronounced "favor") is a charismatic personal injury...
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Breath
A Novel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Tim Winton is Australia’s best-loved novelist. His new work,Breath, is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one’s...
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Cleopatra's Nose
39 Varieties of Desire

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Cleopatra’s Nose is an exuberant gathering of essays and profiles representing twenty years of Judith Thurman’s celebrated writing, particularly her...
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Uncommon Carriers

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
What John McPhee's books all have in common is that they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best, he is out and about with people...
  
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I Am Charlotte Simmons
A Novel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Dupont University--the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition ....
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Nobody Move
A Novel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first...
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Specimen Days
A Novel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a...
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The Essays of Leonard Michaels

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NONFICTION FROM “ONE OF THE STRONGEST AND MOST ARRESTING PROSE TALENTS OF HIS GENERATION” (LARRY MCMURTRY) Leonard Michaels was a writer of unfailing...
  
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Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
And Other Stories

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"You’re not responsible for your ancestry, are you . . . But if that’s so, why have marched under banned slogans, got yourself beaten up by the police,...