Vintage

A NovelIn this masterful debut, Martin Clark proves to be the heir apparent of great Southern raconteurs and the envy of more seasoned novelists as he takes us on a frantic tour of the modern south.Hung over, beaten by the unforgiving sun, bitter at his estranged wife, and dreading the days docket of petty criminal cases, Judge Evers Wheeling is in...

A NovelIn his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, one of literature's great travelers (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. Dickensian . . . a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work.--New York...

Gripping and entertaining, George V. Higgins delivers a compelling and uncomfortably realistic account of the way society and the law really function.  It&'s been a decade since the turbulent 60s and policeman John Richards still has to deal with a handful of leftover student radicals who continue to terrorize the Boston streets. In an effort to...

In this startling new work of fiction, the acclaimed author of A Rumor of War creates three powerful dramas of dislocation, following his characters places they have no business being and into situations that are vastlyand dangerouslybeyond their depth.In the Connecticut suburbs, a motherless young man suddenly becomes the beneficiary of a wealthy...

A quintessentially American epic, Sunnyside stars the one and only Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin. It's 1916 and, after an extraordinary mass delusion where Chaplin is spotted in more than eight hundred places simultaneously, his fame is at its peak but his inspiration is at a low. As he struggles to find a film project as worthy as himself, we...

Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel.In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian migrs, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair.His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and the...