Vintage

A Novel About Nathan Bedford ForrestA powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary of Civil War generals. With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his award-winning fictional trilogy of the Haitian Revolution, Madison Smartt Bell now turns his gaze to America's...

At the age of thirty-five, Matthew Vabers life is so messy it can only be at a turning point. In one direction is the neon glare of his fathers recent suicide, and in the other is the tough love of his fluorescent mother. Hed love to find love, but he cant make it twenty minutes into a first date without spotting that fatal flaw. In spite of...

Cartoons that draw their creator into another world; demonic paintings that exert a sinister influence on our own. Fairy tales that express the secret losses and anxieties of their tellers. These are the elements that Steven Millhauser employs to such marvelousand often disquietingeffect in Little Kingdoms, a collection whose three novellas suggest...

With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. The best (translation) currently...

One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores, in this masterful collection of short stories, the grand theme of intimacy, love, and their failures.With remarkable insight and candor, Richard Ford examines liaisons in and out and to the sides of marriage. An illicit visit to the Grand Canyon reveals a vastness...

From David Gutersonbestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedarscomes this emotionally charged, provocative novel about what happens when a fifteen-year-old girl becomes an instrument of divine grace.Ann Holmes is a fragile, pill-popping teenaged runaway who receives a visitation from the Virgin Mary one morning while picking mushrooms in the woods...