Vintage

Three surprising women, their lives riven by divorce both literal and metaphorical: Ellen Clayton, reeling from her husbands decision to leave her after twenty years, finds meaning in caring for her teenage daughters and in her work as the veterinarian at the New Orleans Zoo. Her young assistant Camille, preyed on by a series of contemptuous men,...

A NovelGeek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set outwith the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopesto breed their own exhibit of human oddities. Theres Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese...

A novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual impotence.From the Trade Paperback edition....

StoriesOne of the sinuous and subtly crafted stories in Tobias Wolff's new collection--his first in eleven years--begins with a man biting a dog. The fact that Wolff is reversing familiar expectations is only half the point. The other half is that Wolff makes the reversal seem inevitable: the dog has attacked his protagonist's young...

With two novels and one short story collection published to overwhelming critical acclaim (Monkeys takes your breath away, said Anne Tyler; heartbreaking, exhilarating, raved the New York Times Book Review), Susan Minot has emerged as one of the most gifted writers in America, praised for her ability to strike at powerful emotional truths in...

In his critically acclaimed epic first novel, Jay Cantor, author of Krazy Kat and Great Neck, draws on history, myth, and his own prodigious imagination to take on the life and death of revolutionary icon Che Guevara.In his now famous progress through modern times, Ernesto Che Guevara, the scion of a liberal Argentine family, abandoned a medical...