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The first collection from a Whiting WritersÆ Award winner whose work has become a fixture of The Paris Review and n Can civilization save us from ourselves? That is the question J. D. Daniels asks in...

This omnibus edition, with a new epilogue by the author, was originally published in 1986 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux as The country girls trilogy and epilogue.--Title page verso.Author: Edna...

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category A monumental work of nonfiction on a wartime atrocity, its sixty-year denial, and the impact of its truth Jan Gross's hugely...

When John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestors?Colonsay, twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainland?a hundred and thirty-eight people were living there. About eighty of these, crofters...

Author: Seamus HeaneyPublisher: Farrar, Straus And GirouxPublication Date: Dec 04, 1991Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0374522898ISBN-13: 9780374522896

Seventy-one-year-old Mexican financier recalls the turbulent days of his life, as he lies dying.Author: Carlos FuentesPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublication Date: February 03, 2009Number of...

A "What We're Reading This Summer" Pick by The Atlantic The Draw is a "spellbinding, coming-of-age tour de force" (New York Times Book Review) about a boy striving to make his way up through society...

C. S. Lewis is the twentieth century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club...

An enchanting story of twins, fame, and heartache by the much-praised author of Lullabies for Little Criminals Heather O'Neill charmed readers in the hundreds of thousands with her sleeper hit,...

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary History. "The broad outline of Spring's...

Welcome to the House of Journalists. Who are you and what is your story? These are the questions that confront newcomers to the House of Journalists, the internationally renowned refuge for writers...

The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual EditionAuthor: DantePublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublication Date: March 30, 1996Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

A bizarre, little-known tale about the most secretive culture on earth For decades, North Korea denied any part in the disappearance of dozens of Japanese citizens from Japan?s coastal towns and...

A masterful new translation of a haunting novel of nineteenth-century Haiti A few years after its liberation from harsh French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under...

The untold story of Blanche Knopf, the singular woman who helped define American literature Left off her company?s fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as ?the soul of the firm,?...

The letters provide us with an intimate, multilayered understanding of this extraordinary poet?s life and mind. Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were,...

Ben Lerner?s writing shatters space, time and literary borders . . . [His] language [is] nearly synesthetic. You can taste it in your mouth. ?David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times The Lights is a...

Author: Ben MacintyrePublisher: Farrar, Straus And GirouxPublication Date: May 04, 2005Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0374529574ISBN-13: 9780374529574

A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writers' Award. Shane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with The Many Hundreds of...

A sparkling life of the monumental fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga One of the most innovative and admired figures in the history of haute couture, Cristóbal Balenciaga was, said Christian Dior,...

A narrative about personalities and American history is told through the story of an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872 to talk about ideas.Author: Louis MenandPublisher:...

WINNER OF THE 2018 JG-WINGATE PRIZE A psychologically acute memoir about an unusual Hollywood family by Michael Frank, who "brings Proustian acuity and razor-sharp prose to family dramas as primal,...

Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazine?s 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percy?s debut The Moviegoer is an American masterpiece and a classic of Southern literature...

The NaturalAuthor: Bernard MalamudPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublication Date: Jul 07, 2003Number of Pages: 231 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0374502005ISBN-13:...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017 Les Mis?rables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector...

A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the...

With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's new play, commissioned by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, springs from the same imaginative sources as his epic...

The Old Gringo tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American author, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho villa's soldiers - particularly his...

In The Oldest Boy, the newest work from the visionary playwright Sarah Ruhl, faith and family are put at odds when a three-year-old boy is recognized as the reincarnation of a high Buddhist Lama...

Presents a modern translation of the ancient Greek trilogy which traces the chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos, commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for performance in...