Tag Archives: Literary
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier“Charles Frazier has taken on a daunting task–and has done extraordinarily well by it… a Whitmanesque foray into America: into its hugeness, its freshness,…
Cold Skin
by Albert Sánchez Piñol“Sentence by sentence, Piñol’s first novel offers a tightly crafted allegory of human brutality, both fascinating and repellent.” —Publishers Weekly
Cleopatra Dismounts
by Carmen BoullosaAn enchanting, audacious retelling of the Cleopatra story from a Mexican novelist who is “a luminous writer” and “a masterful spinner of the fantastic.”…
Close to the Bone
by Laurie Stone“Addresses the memoir in our time and the culture of confession and recovery . . . Reminds us why [Laurie Stone] is one of…
Closer
by Dennis Cooper“Bleak and brilliant. There can be no doubt about the power and originality of Cooper’s writing. Sheer force of style raises Closer to the…
The Cigar Roller
by Pablo MedinaA hypnotic portrayal of a Cuban cigar roller, now an old man trapped inside his useless body, compelled to relive his worst failures in…
The Circle of Hanh
by Bruce Weigl“Weigl keeps his readers in cliff-hanging suspense. . . . So powerful is his writing that readers, too, will live among these words. They…
A Circle of Wives
by Alice LaPlanteFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind comes a new psychological thriller that delves into the secret polygamous family life…
City of God
by Paulo LinsThe searing novel on which the internationally acclaimed hit film was based, City of God is a gritty, gorgeous tour de force from the Brazilian street….
City of Night
by John Rechy“One of the major books to be published since World War II.” —The Washington Post…
