Tag Archives: Literary
Perdita Durango
by Barry Gifford“If you bemoan your search for something “different” in fiction, your search is over.” –Chicago Tribune
Perfume River
by Robert Olen ButlerFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain comes a powerful novel about the way the Vietnam War divided…
Period
by Dennis Cooper“A fascinating, intricately crafted jewel of a book . . . It’s a book one could read over and over and never exhaust.” –Dodie…
Perlmann’s Silence
by Pascal MercierA stunning novel from the internationally best-selling author of Night Train to Lisbon, Perlmann’s Silence is an accomplished portrayal of a man whose grief…
Passing On
by Penelope Lively“Passing On feels like real life drawn to scale, where private dreams dwarf the daily routine. . . . An expert at articulating character…
Passion Play
by Jerzy Kosinski“Like Dostoyevsky’s, Kosinski’s characters explore their own souls, always reaching for limits. . . . The results are never less than compelling.” –Time
The Passion
by Jeanette WintersonThis arresting, elegant novel uses Napolean’s Europe as the setting for a tantalizing surrealistic romance between an observer of history and a creature of…
Peace Like a River
by Leif EngerA “reminder of why we read fiction to begin with” (San Francisco Chronicle), Peace Like a River is Leif Enger’s extraordinary debut novel—a heroic quest, a…
A Peculiar Grace
by Jeffrey Lent“Family-fracturing secrets are at the heart of Lent’s luminous third novel, a transcendent story about the healing power of love and art. . ….
