Tag Archives: Literary

Painted Horses

by Malcolm Brooks

A big, enthralling debut novel of America in its ascendance, of history versus modernity, and a love story of the West, Painted Horses introduces an extraordinary new literary voice….

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

by Jeanette Winterson

“To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her.”—O, the Oprah Magazine The 40th anniversary edition of a beloved modern classic and pioneering work of…

The Ordinary Seaman

by Francisco Goldman

“A stunningly well-written second novel from a major talent of great style and soul.” —The Miami Herald

The Origin of the Brunists

by Robert Coover

“A novel of intensity and conviction . . . [Coover] may become heir to Dreiser or Lewis. . . . He has splendid talent.”…

On Love

by Alain de Botton

“Imagine, of all impossible things, a young British Woody Allen with the benefit of a classical education and you have the nameless and exquisitely…

On the Water

by H. M. van den Brink

“In beautifully vivid writing, van den Brink describes the grace, ecstasy and agony of rowing, the miracle of its teamwork harmony.” —Washington Post…

Once Upon a Time in England

by Helen Walsh

“The novel courses with life, and the characters are rendered in visceral totality—there isn’t a putrid smell, quickening of heart, or tingle in the…

On a Wave

by Thad Ziolkowski

“More than an account of a sport mastered. It’s a sharp, self-conscious portrait of the artist as a young grommet.” –The New Yorker