Vintage

In this flawless novella, Mona Simpson turns her powers of observation toward characters who, unlike Ann and Adele August in her bestselling Anywhere but Here, choose to stay rather than go. As a high school student in Green Bay, Bea Maxwell raised money for good causes; later, she became a successful real estate agent and an accomplished knitter....

This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.From the Trade Paperback edition....

In a small town among the citrus groves in the Santa Bernita Valley, so the locals claim, nothing ever goes according to plan. It's a great place to live, they say, if you like surprises: it's just like life, only different. Certainly a number of Rito's inhabitants--fewer than a hundred in all--are surprised to be living here. Red...

A Martin Beck Police Mystery (2)The masterful second novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjwall and Per Wahl, finds Beck searching for a well-known Swedish journalist who has disappeared without a trace.Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad has his summer vacation...

A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote's life's work in the form he called his ';great love,' The Complete Stories confirms Capote's status as a master of the short story. Ranging from the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places...

In the novels of R. K. Narayan (1906-2001), the forefather of modern Indian fiction, human-scale hopes and epiphanies express the promise of a nation as it awakens to its place in the world. Mr. SampathThe Printer of Malgudi is the story of a businessman who adapts to the collapse of his weekly newspaper by shifting to screenplays, only to have the...