James Salter0.0 First published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital - each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literary grace. Two New York attorneys newly flush with wealth embark on a dissolute tour of Italy; an ambitious young screenwriter unexpectedly discovers the true meaning of art and glory; a ruder, far off in the fields, is involved in an horrific accident - night is falling, and she must face her destiny alone. These stories confirm James Salter as one of the finest writers of our time.
Мэри МакГарри Моррис0.0 Aubrey Wallace is the kind of man no one notices. Dotty Johnson is the kind of woman no one can ingore. One afternoon, they both disappear from the small Vermont town where they live. The next day, two hundred miles away, a toddler is snatched from her Massachusetts home.For the next five years, Aubrey, Dotty, and the kidnapped child—bound together by strange love and desperate need—are trapped in a nomadic existence governed by their constant fear of discovery. Canny, the little girl, becomes Aubrey's entire existence. But Dotty wants out. She is tired of being saddled with this fearful little man. When she meets Jiggy Huller, a brutal ex-convict, the wheels of Canny's return to her natural parents are wrenched fatally into motion.
Томас Сэвидж0.0 The Corner of Rife and Pacific comes from deep within the American grain. In this, his thirteenth novel, Thomas Savage returns to Grayling, Montana, at the beginning of the century, to the tragic Indians, to the great ranchers and citizens of a gentler time who already feel the promise—and the threat—of the future. There is Zack Metlen, whose family has, in the course of a single generation, tumbled from prosperity, from twenty thousand acres, expensive motor cars, and jewels, to near indigence.
And above all, there is Anne Chapman, whose beauty is such that a man might never see its like again. Hers is a beauty that confounds and inspires. But more: She has the courage of her blood and defends what she loves by absolutely flouting convention at a time when convention is a dangerous power to flout.
Isaac Bashevis Singer0.0 Twenty stories from the Nobel Prizewinner, including "Disguised," a transvestite tale of the yeshiva student whose deserted wife finds him dressed as a woman and married to a man, and the title story, which portrays Methuselah at the age of 969 -- "and when you pass your nine hundredth birthday, you are not what you used to be."
