Vintage

"e;Of his generation's metafictioneers, Fred Exley has created the richest and most American body of work .... LAST NOTES tells tales about corruption, confession, and the often terrible beauty of the bonds of love."e;- VILLAGE VOICEFrederick Exley, the splenetic and prodigiously self-destructive narrator and protagonist of A FAN'S NOTES...

Here are the best of Hawthorne's short stories. There are twenty-four of them -- not only the most familiar, but also many that are virtually unknown to the average reader. The selection was made by Professor Newton Arvin of Smith College, a recognized authority on Hawthorne and a distinguished literary critic as well. His fine introduction...

Stephen Jones is a shiny new hire at Zephyr Holdings. From the outside, Zephyr is just another bland corporate monolith, but behind its glass doors business is far from usual: the beautiful receptionist is paid twice as much as anybody else to do nothing, the sales reps use self help books as manuals, no one has seen the CEO, no one knows exactly...

Gates Hunt is a compulsive felon, serving a stiff penitentiary sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, however, has escaped their bitter, impoverished upbringing to become the commonwealth's attorney for their rural hometown in Virginia, where he enjoys a contented life with his wife and spitfire daughter. But Mason's idyll is abruptly...

In his long-awaited new novel, renowned German author Ingo Schulze provides a rich and nuanced panorama of a world in transition.East Germany, January 1990. Enrico Trmerman of the theater, aspiring novelisthas turned his back on the art world and joined a startup newspaper. Before long, the former aesthete and rebel becomes obsessed with personal...

Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeiers richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens. In the deftly told These Hands, a man named Lewis recounts his time babysitting a young girl and his inconsolable sense of loss after...