Vietnam Plays Vol 1 [Basic Training]

Alone With Others

‘magnificent, inspiring! . . . This excellent book has come to me personally as an illuminating text, despite my close on sixty years’ concern with Buddhism . . . [Batchelor’s]…

The Collected Shorter Plays

“Beckett stalks after men on their way out. . . . His plays and novels (Molloy, Murphy) are metaphors of modern man’s spiritual bafflement.” —Time…

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…

Wonderland

“Bamberger spends a year learning the individual stories that make up a senior class, weaving them together for a composite portrait that, we hope, will give us a clear vision…

The Weather Makers

“At last, here is a clear and readable account of one of the most important but controversial issues facing everyone in the world today. If you are not already addicted…

Up Through the Water

“Beautifully written . . . a seamless and almost instinctive prose that often reads more like poetry than fiction.” –Robert Olmstead, The New York Times Book Review…

Steps

“By some miracle of training, which recalls the linguistic bravado of Conrad and Nabokov, he is already a master of pungent and disciplined English prose. Simply as a stylist, Kosinski…

Stargazing

“It’s 1973, Watergate and Vietnam, the Grateful Dead. What are you going to be when you grow up? asks a friend. A lighthouse keeper, says our 20-year old. . ….

Splitting

“Adarkly comic portrait of one woman’s shattering response to divorce: the latest from an author rightly celebrated for writing witty cautionary tales about the contemporary sexual jungle.” –Kirkus Reviews…