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StoriesWhen Edith Templetons stories began appearing in The New Yorker in the late 1950s, she quickly became a favorite of the magazines discerning readers. Her finely honed writing, honestly drawn heroines, and distinctive themes secured her reputation.The Darts of Cupid collects seven of Templetons stories for the first time and reintroduces one...

Bascombe Trilogy (2)The Pulitzer-Prize Winning novel for 1996.In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Richard Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction, and in so doing gives us an indelible portrait of America.Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has...

As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was -- living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring -- no longer exists. This...

Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; The Caryatids, an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy's spell; and three tales of winter, including Converse at...

A NovelA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Jernigan introduced David Gates as a novelist of the highest order. Full of dark truths and biting humor,wrote Frederick Exley, a brilliant novel [that] will be read for a long time.After that blackly comic handbook of self-destruction--whose antihero shoulders up to such crucial American figures as...

A NovelIn the bestselling tradition of The Red Tent, The Family Orchard is a spellbinding novel of one unforgettable family, the orchard they&'ve tended for generations, and a love story that transcends the ages.Nomi Eve&'s lavishly imagined account begins in Palestine in 1837, with the tale of the irrepressible family matriach, Esther, who was...