Tag Archives: Literary

A Carnivore’s Inquiry

by Sabina Murray

The spellbinding new book by the winner of the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award is a gripping, literary psychological thriller about a young woman and a…

Carry Me Down

by M.J. Hyland

“John Egan is a brave, resourceful boy, intelligent and self-aware, yet skating on the edge of madness. The story of John’s thirteenth year is…

Caught

by Lisa Moore

“Quintessential Moore: precise, compressed, intimately rhythmic, mesmerizingly smart.” —Leah Hager Cohen, The Globe and Mail

Cain’s Book

by Alexander Trocchi

“Mr. Tocchi’s ideas (or, rather, his gropings toward the distant glow of ideas) are set down in prose that is always clean and sharp…

Camus, a Romance

by Elizabeth Hawes

“A rich hybrid of biography, literary criticism, intellectual history and memoir. . .[an] intriguing, multi-faceted portrait.” —The Washington Post

Candy

by Terry Southern

“Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.” —William Styron

The Caprices

by Sabina Murray

“Murray writes stories of fierce intensity, stories that are evocative, distinct, and haunting.” —Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review

The Car Thief

by Theodore Weesner

“What The Car Thief is really concerned with emerges between its realistic lines–slowly, delicately, and with quiet but consummate art.” –Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New…

Butterflies in November

by Audur Olafsdottir

An enchanting novel about a woman who stumbles into a sudden change of fortune and embarks on an offbeat road trip to escape the…