Vintage

With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of...

From the author of the acclaimed Burke series comes a sharply affecting new novel about a group of outcasts who undertake a ';mission' to save a schizophrenic's hidden treasure.When his most beloved student dies as a result of what he believes to be his misguidance, Ho renounces his position as a revered sensei, abandons his dojo and all of his...

In this suspenseful and atmospheric spy novel in the tradition of Graham Greene and John le Carr, Henry Bromell unfolds a labyrinthine tale of intrigue and moral ambiguity. In 1958, at the height of the Cold War, CIA agent Mack Hooper arrived in the tiny middle-eastern kingdom of Kurash with a mission to befriend and protect its inexperienced young...

Ford Madox Ford's novel about the doomed Katharine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII, is a neglected masterpiece.Kat Howardintelligent, beautiful, naively outspoken, and passionately idealisticcatches the eye of Henry VIII and improbably becomes his fifth wife. A teenager who has grown up far from court, she is wholly unused to the corruption and...

From a writer whose novels have been acclaimed for their unflinching exploration of evil comes a brilliant collection of short storiessome never before publishedthat distill dread back down to its essenceand inject it straight into the reader's back brain. Andrew Vachss might have scissored his characters from today's headlines: a stalker prowling...

Its been more than two decades since Spartina won the National Book Award and was acclaimed by critics as being possibly the best American novel . . . since The Old Man and the Sea (The New York Times Book Review), but in this extraordinary follow-up novel barely any time has passed in the magical landscape of salt ponds and marshes in John Caseys...