Vintage

Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner AwardFinalist for the Orange Prize for FictionChosen as a Best Book of the Yearby The New York Times Book Review, TheWashington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star, Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Real Simple Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman...

Tzippy Goldman was born for marriage. She and her mother had always assumed shed graduate high school, be set up with the right boy, and have a beautiful wedding with white lace and pareve vanilla cream frosting. But at twenty-two, Tzippys fast approaching spinsterhood. She dreams of escape; instead, she leaves for a year in Jerusalem.There she...

In the fall, I went for walks and brought home bones. The best bones werent on trailsdeer and moose dont die convenientlyand soon I was wandering so far into the woods that I needed a map and compass to find my way home. When winter came and snow blew into the mountains, burying the bones, I continued to spend my days and often my nights in the...

With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prizewinning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.Anils Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in...

&';Alice Adams has an inimitable &';voice&'quick, deft, brilliantly evocative and specific. There is always something special about a story of hers, like a watercolor perfectly executed.&' --Joyce Carol Oates  Award-winning writer Alice Adams, whose major themes were the varied lives of contemporary women and the hidden workings of human...

A NovelMichael Caruso Taylor is a man with a problem. He cant speak. In fact, he can&'t do much of anything the way he once used to. A successful English professor, he can hardly compose a coherent sentence, or remember much of anything he once knew. On top of this, he is slowly regressing toward infancy. He calls it The Wasties, a condition with...