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A NovelThomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift for lacerating, lyrical, provocative prose is incomparably his own.One of Bernhard's most acclaimed novels, The Loser centers on a...

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. One of the countrys best writers. . . . No one looks harder at contemporary American life, sees more, or expresses it with such hushed, deliberate care. San Francisco ChronicleAn accomplished practitioner of the...

Elements of Style, the Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright Wendy Wassersteins first novel, is a scathing comedy about New York's high society facing the post9/11 world. Francesca Weissman, an Upper East Side pediatrician rated number one by Manhattan magazine, floats on the fringes of the upper strata of privilege and aspiration. Through her...

A NovelA Washington Post Best Book of the YearEdgar NomineeBest First Novel Joel Deveraux is a rising star at a white-shoe law firm in Manhattan. But after a drug-related scandal costs him his job and nearly his law license, he slides down the corporate ladder to the Booklyn Defenders office. He arrives just in time for a high profile murder case,...

Kenton's career as a journalist depended on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics, and his quick judgment. Where his judgment sometimes failed him was in his personal life. When he finds himself on a train bound for Austria with insufficient funds after a bad night of gambling, he jumps at the chance to earn a fee to...

Mona and Other Tales covers Reinaldo Arenas&'s entire career: his recently rediscovered debut (which got him a job at the Biblioteca Nacional in Havana), stories written in a political prison, and some of his last works, written in exile. Many of the stories have not previously appeared in English.Here is the tender story of a boy who recognizes...