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 McLynn’s ability to bring history alive triumphs again in this vivid and elegant story of a pivotal moment in world history….

T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.

“Shakur produces a visceral and strikingly real portrayal of gang life in Los Angeles, replete with sudden and inexplicable violence, revenge, betrayal, ostentatious living, racism, the strong arm of law…

Nine Plays of the Modern Theatre

“The nine plays included in this volume are not only modern by date, 1944-1975, but in their dramatization . . . . Though each may differ from the others in…

The New Inheritors

The third novel from “one of the most exhilarating historical novelists in the country” (Washington Post), set in New Orleans, the Mississippi coast, Cuba, and Nicaragua in the early decades…

How I Became a Famous Novelist

“If this book doesn’t make you laugh, you may need a new funny bone.” —Kyle Smith, People (4 stars)…

Levi’s Children

The Beholder’s Eye

“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…

Matterhorn

A big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran.

The Return of the Caravels

“A twenty-first-century modernist heir to the narrative collage technique championed by such masters as Ferdinand C”line, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garc”a M”rquez, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, and Italo Calvino…

Harlem

“[A] panoramic history . . . Gill blends high-density research, political and cultural sophistication, and narrative drive to produce an epic worthy of its fabled subject.” —Edward Kosner, The Wall…