Vintage

A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic StatementMurray gives readers the redefined essence of his lifetime meditation on the blues as this musical style informs American life. Here are incisive essays on writing, music, and art that go beyond the social-science fiction of Negrohood to describe in no uncertain terms what it means to be...

StoriesMary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of storiesher first in more than ten years. In ';College Town l980,' young people adrift in Ann Arbor debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; in the urban fairy tale ';Mirrorball,' a young man steals a girl's soul during a one-night...

Forty Tales from the AfterlivesAt once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterliveseach presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version,...

Some might say that Crumbtown isnt a place. Its a state of mind. And for the residents of this sinking, stinking, carcinogenic, potholed neighborhood, Theres bad luck in the world, and then theres crumbluck. But for Don Reedy, a true victim of this phenomenon, his crumbluck is about to change. Sentenced to 15 years in prison after a botched armed...

A NovelIn 1970, Sara Ehrenreich boards a small plane and returns to New York City with much fanfare; she will be featured in Life magazine. She has not left Ta'un'uuthe South Seas island upon which she and her husband, Philip, were marooned during a stormin more than thirty years. Sara doesnt know that man has landed on the moon. She has...

A NovelThis vibrant, provocative dbut novel explores the dreams and struggles of three generations of Dominican women. Graciela, born on the outskirts of Santo Domingo at the turn of the century, is a headstrong adventuress who comes of age during the U.S. occupation. Too poor to travel beyond her imagination, she is frustrated by the monotony of...