Vintage

StoriesFrom one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard's trademarks.A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker Barrel restaurant,...

A NovelA New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, SlateIn A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square and begin a new life in the...

A Novel of HaitiThe Stone that the Builder Refused is the final volume of Madison Smartt Bells masterful trilogy about the Haitian Revolutionthe first successful slave revolution in historywhich begins with All Souls' Rising (a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award) and continues with Master of the Crossroads. Each of...

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfitsan orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladieswho one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all...

From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its natural predators.He is called Ghost because he is so nondescript as to be invisible and because he...

One morning in the park James Sim discovers a man, crumpled on the ground, stabbed in the chest. In the man&'s last breath, he whispers his confession: Samedi. What follows is a spellbinding game of cat and mouse as James is abducted, brought to an asylum, and seduced by a woman in yellow. Who is lying? What is Samedi? And what will happen on the...