Vintage

Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Deliawife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughtonis Meri's new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Tom's chronic infidelity has been an open secret in...

Calcutta in 1836: an uneasy mix of two worldsthe patient, implacably unchangeable India and the tableau vivant of English life created of imperialisms desperation. This is where Lady Eleanor, her sister Harriet, and her brother, Henrythe newly appointed Governor-General of the colonyarrive after a harrowing sea journey from Heaven, across the...

The Chicago Way, The Fifth FloorHere are his first two explosive neo-noir thrillers, The Chicago Way and The Fifth Floor, together in one eBook, with a bonus excerpt from We All Fall Down, the latest installment, due out in hardcover in summer 2011.See why Michael Harvey's tough-talking, ex-cop-turned- private investigator Michael Kelly has...

In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin...

Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the woman for whom he ruined his life many years earlier. Alan Sherwood, a quiet English solicitor, remembers back to a time when he stepped briefly out of character to indulge in a liaison with Sarah...

From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov's...