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The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless  in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It&'s a neighborhood where the entertainments include  muggings along with games of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a black  teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. As Lethem follows the knitting and ...

In The Good Life, Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are wonderstruck by young twins whose provenance is nothing less than miraculous....

When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.From the Trade Paperback edition....

The characters truly speak for themselves in George V. Higgins&' chilling tour de force about deceit, blackmail and the importance of paying one&'s dues.  Ultimate recidivist Earl Beale has learnt little from his early release from jail and narrow escape from being drafted, seemingly nothing can cure him of his criminal ways. Obsessed by money, and...

A NovelAfter a decomposed body is discovered in an abandoned military tunnel, Inspector Aurelio Zen travels north to the Italian Alps to investigate. At first glance, the death appears to have been an accident. But when Zen takes a closer look, a mysterious tattoo begins to tell a much more sinister tale, especially after the body is snatched from...

This collection of storiestwenty-one classics followed by ten potent new storiesdisplays Tobias Wolff's exquisite gifts over a quarter century.From the Trade Paperback edition....