Vintage

Nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this award-winning debut. In When She is Old and I Am Famous a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin's beauty. In Note to Sixth-Grade Self a band of popular girls exert their social power over an awkward outcast. In Isabel Fish fourteen-year-old Maddy learns to scuba dive...

The Fifth Book of the House of NiccoloWith the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolo series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none...

In the classic "e;Babette's Feast,"e; a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares a sumptuousfeast for a gathering of religious ascetics and, in doing so, introduces them to the true essence of grace. In "e;The Immortal Story,"e; a miserly old tea-trader living in Canton wishes for power and finds redemption as he turns an oft-told...

A NovelA couple of missing wivesone a rich man's and one a poor man'sbecome the objects of Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.From the Trade Paperback edition....

A NovelMarlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.From the Trade Paperback edition....

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980&'s, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money a place devoid of feeling or hope. Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern...