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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 Essays of Leonard Michaels

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Leonard Michaels was a writer of unfailing emotional honesty. His memoirs, originally scattered through his story collections, are among the most thrilling...
  
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The Possessed
Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

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One of The Economist’s 2011 Books of the Year THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED—ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!—TO THE RUSSIAN...
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The White Album
Essays

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First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the...
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Dom Casmurro
A Novel

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Bento Santiago, the wildly unreliable narrator of Dom Casmurro, believes that he has been cuckolded—he suspects that his wife has cheated on him with his best...
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The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor

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Described by Anne Tyler as “the undisputed master of the short story form,” Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts between the...
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Ground Up
A Novel

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Light streams through the windows as the espresso machine roars; a gorgeous, rich scent fills the air; and witty conversation unspools over the porcelain...
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The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon

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The complete collection of short fiction from a literary stylist who captured the nuances of life in the American South of the early twentieth century, The...
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Property Of
A Novel

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When Property Of was published in 1977, Kirkus Reviews described it as “that precious commodity, the first novel of great promise.” In telling the story of a...
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The Golden Ass
The Transformations of Lucius

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The story of The Golden Ass is that of Lucius Apuleius, a young man of good birth who encountered many strange adventures while disporting himself along the...

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The Brothers Karamazov

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The award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel.
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Sophie's World
A Novel About the History of Philosophy

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie’s World has fired the imagination of readers...
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The Complete Stories

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Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American...
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Wise Blood
A Novel

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Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Focused on the story of Hazel Motes, a...
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Essays

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The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, forty years after its first...
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The Natural

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The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new edition Introduction by Kevin Baker The Natural, Bernard Malamud’s first...
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Play It As It Lays
A Novel

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A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society...
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Memoirs of Hadrian

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Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication...
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The Girl on the Fridge
Stories

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A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in the...
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
A Novel

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The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan...
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The Nimrod Flipout
Stories

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From Israel’s most popular and acclaimed young writer—“Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a...
  
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A Sport and a Pastime
A Novel

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“As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know,” is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both...
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The Lottery and Other Stories

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The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and...
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Everything That Rises Must Converge

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Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965) is nine posthumous stories. The introduction is by Robert Fitzgerald.