Search Results for: American

Blood from a Stone

by Donna Leon

“Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive and convincing a narrative as Donna Leon, the expatriate American with the Venetian heart.” —Paul Skenazy, Washington Post…

The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

by Tom Spanbauer

…it is dark, full of fictional and philosophical pleasures, a quirky, unsettling look at American history and a vision quest in the grand old tradition.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review…

Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

by Allen Ginsberg

“Ginsberg has been one of the most influential poets in American in our time. . . . It has been a spectacular career, and . . . the thinking that…

Barney Rosset

…For the next sixteen years, Evergreen introduced many world-class writers to American readers, such as Beckett, Genet, Grass, Ōe, Duras, Paz, Walcott, Nabokov. The journal published until 1973, and was…

The Forger’s Daughter

by Bradford Morrow

Threats, promises, and the allure of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane—the rarest book in American literature—pull readers back into the dangerous world of literary forgery in this heart-stopping sequel to The…

The Long Fuse

by Don Cook

“Delineating the political culture of corruption and bribery that pervaded London and disgusted Americans like Benjamin Franklin, Cook convincingly concludes that the war was lost as much in London as…

Empire’s Crossroads

by Carrie Gibson

A gripping narrative history of the entire Caribbean, from first exploration to today, by a talented British American historian.

Baumgartner

by Paul Auster

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and “one of the great American prose stylists of our time” (New York Times)…

The Tremor of Forgery

by Patricia Highsmith

“Highsmith has produced work as serious in its implications and as subtle in its approach as anything being done in the novel today.” —Julian Symons…

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….