Milorad Pavic A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two...

Joyce Carol Oates Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. Her sister's ex-fiancee, a decorated Iraq War veteran struggling with his...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates An epic novel of an American family in the 1950s proves the tender division between what is permissible and what is taboo, between ordinary life and...

Kingsley Amis Patrick Standish finds himself at the center of a whirlwind of woman trouble involving his neighbors, his coworkers, and his lovely wife, Jenny. January 1, 1989 by Penguin...

Edited by James Cochrane This collection offers twenty-one stories from the literature of America, a nation which has always been particularly at home in this form, and which has produced...

Anthony Burgess In a sweeping historical novel moving from the sinking of the "Titanic" to World War II and the birth of Israel, two families--one Welsh and one Irish--are bound...

Chingiz Aitmatov Avidiy Kallistratov is a religious idealist with a mission. In his quest to get rid of evil, he begins by investigating marijuana production and witnesses abuse, alcoholism and...

Alice Munro Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living...

Martin MacInnes An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of...

Margaret Atwood From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as:Why do...

Carlos Fuentes Mexico, 1991: Black acid rain falls on "Makesicko City," the most polluted, most populated city in the world. Amid this apocalyptic landscape a prize is being offered to...

Gore Vidal January 1, 1989 by ANDRE DEUTSCH LTD