Vintage

These 17 short stories represent the best of Brodkey's work over three decades.From the Trade Paperback edition....

A Hap and Leonard Novel (3)Full of savage humor, heart-stopping suspense, and a cast of characters so tough they could chew the bumper off a pickup truck, The Two Bear Mambo is classic country noir.In this rollicking, rollercoaster ride of a novel, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine take a break from their day jobs to search for Florida Grange,...

Having survived an explosive assassination attempt, Italian police detective Aurelio Zen finds himself convalescing at a Tuscan seaside resort town, where he is under orders to lie low until he is to testify at a much-anticipated Mafia trial. The quietand the boredom are relieved by the pleasant distraction of the beautiful Gemma, but just when he...

The author of the highly acclaimed novels Jernigan (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) and Preston Falls (National Book Critics Cirlce Award Finalist) offers up a mordantly funny collection of short stories about the faulty bargains we make with ourselves to continure the high-wire act of living meaningful lives in late twentieth-century America.Populated by...

Bestselling author Jonathan Lethem delivers a hilarious novel about love, art, and what it&'s like to be young in Los Angeles.Lucinda Hoekke&'s daytime gig as a telephone operator at the Complaint Linean art gallery&'s high-minded installation pieceis about as exciting as listening to dead air. Her real passion is playing bass in her forever...

A NovelA Lesson Before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men arekilled; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation...