Vintage

Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for herso she can kill him with her bare hands.In this cauterizing thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegadeinvestigator teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to...

A NovelAnyone who has read the best-selling Mama Makes Up Her Mind or listened to Bailey White's commentaries on NPR knows that she is a storyteller of inimitable wit and charm. Now, in her stunningly accomplished first novel, she introduces us to the peculiar yet lovable people who inhabit a small town in south Georgia. Meet serious, studious...

Kristin Lavransdatter, Vol.1The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway has kept its hold on generations of readers, and the heroine,...

A physical novel in which Lucien Taylor, a native son of Montana, embarks on a half-witted, half-unwilling journey into self-discovery....

Andrew Vachss returns with a mesmerizing novel about a hard-core thief who's about to embark on a job that will alter his life forever.Sugar is that rarest of commodities: an old-school professional thief, tough and loyal as a pit bull, packing 255 pounds of muscle. When he's picked out of a photo array in a vicious rape case, the cops...

By ';our premier writer about jazz and the blues...and a fictional tale spinner in the grand Southern tradition' (Washington Post Book World),The Spyglass Treeis a deeply affecting novel of elegant, lyrical reminiscence and profound sophistication about a young black man's advent into the world of academiaan imaginary Alabama...