Vintage

From the massively talented Gish Jen comes a barbed, moving, and stylistically dazzling new novel about the elusive nature of kinship. The Wongs describe themselves as a half half family, but the actual fractions are more complicated, given Carnegies Chinese heritage, his wife Blondies WASP background, and the various ethnic permutations of their...

A NovelAnna Karenina left her husband for a dashing officer. Lady Chatterley left hers for the gamekeeper. Now Alice Coombs has her boyfriend for nothing nothing at all. Just how that should have come to pass and what Philip Engstrand, Alice&'s spurned boyfriend, can do about it is the premise for this vertiginous speculative romance by the...

A blazingly original, profoundly moving new work of fiction by a writer whose worldand imaginationknows no boundaries. ';I don't know what planet Judy Budnitz comes from,' said Newsweek on the publication of her fiction debut, Flying Leap, ';but I'm happy to have her. Tremendous . . . funny, dark, adventurous, slanted, and...

StoriesSet in New York City, middle America, the beaches of Florida and rural highways, suburban kitchens, and cross-country trains, the ten stories of City of Boys evoke a haunting landscape at once familiar and strange. A small-town girl flees her domineering mother and falls into an obsessive love affair with an older woman in New York City. A...

For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in this darkly funny novel, death is sometimes a...

Here is the fourth installment in Stella Rimingtons series of thrilling novels that have at their center MI5 officer Liz Carlyle.As plans get under way for a Middle East peace conference at the Gleneagles resort in Scotland, alarming information comes to MI5 from a high-ranking Syrian source: two individuals are mounting an operation to violently...