Stone Junction

by Jim Dodge

“A post-psychedelic coming-of-age fable that’s part Thomas Pynchon, part Tolkien, part Richard Brautigan, a story that owes as much to The Once and Future…

Stories and Texts for Nothing

by Samuel Beckett

“This volume of Beckett miniatures–three longish stories and thirteen vignettes, [comprises] fragments from the finest body of work produced by any [contemporary] writer.” –Newsweek

Stargazing

by Peter Hill

“It’s 1973, Watergate and Vietnam, the Grateful Dead. What are you going to be when you grow up? asks a friend. A lighthouse keeper,…

Stars Screaming

by John Kaye

“Kaye describes the city in richly evocative detail, suffusing it with real feeling. . . . His Los Angeles is replete with awful happenings,…

State Counsellor

by Boris Akunin

From the writer who reinvented the Russian crime novel, a gripping tale of political subterfuge and murder in turn-of-the-century Moscow featuring the inimitable hero…

Steps

by Jerzy Kosinski

“By some miracle of training, which recalls the linguistic bravado of Conrad and Nabokov, he is already a master of pungent and disciplined English…

Stern

by Bruce Jay Friedman

“What makes Friedman more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth and Bellow is the sense he affords of possibilities larger than the doings and undoings of the Jewish urban bourgeois’.What…

Stet

by Diana Athill

‘diana Athill has a delightful way with the English language–crisp, scrupulously honest, precise and without a micron of self-indulgence. . . . Luckily for…

Stevenson Under the Palm Trees

by Alberto Manguel

“A miniature Gothic horror story that Stevenson himself and even Henry James would have found chilling.” –Anna Mundow, The Boston Globe

St. Petersburg

by Andrey Biely

“There is nothing like a ticking time bomb to supply fictional suspense, and perhaps no other writer has ever used the device more successfully…

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