Fiction | Fiction
Jan.14.2008
For Hannah Fairchild, jaded Hollywood trust fund baby and aspiring astronomer, life as she knows it (financially secure, albeit emotionally frail) goes out of orbit when her father -- the larger-than-life legendary actor and playboy, Leo Fairchild -- drops dead while making love to a nineteen year-...
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Jan.11.2008
Infoquake, the debut novel by web programmer David Louis Edelman, takes speculative fiction into alien territory: the corporate boardroom of the far future. It’s a stunning trip through the trenches of a technological war fought with product demos, press releases and sales pitches.
Natch is a...
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Jan.07.2008
Hemmings's bittersweet debut novel, an expansion of her first published short story ("The Minor Wars," from House of Thieves and originally published in StoryQuarterly), stars besieged and wryly introspective attorney Matt King, the land-rich descendant of Hawaiian royalty and American missionaries...
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Jan.04.2008
One legendary band on a sold-out American tour. One sleazy biographer digging up old secrets and opening old wounds. One ageing guitarist, with a crippling illness and a twisted past. One woman who will do anything to keep her hold over him, and another who will do anything to protect him.
The...
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Jan.03.2008
In the tradition of Susan Isaacs comes a charming debut novel featuring a lovable phone psychic, whose talents will either save her family from financial ruin -- or ruin her family altogether.
What do you do when your husband's business is failing, your daughter is ashamed of you, and your faith in...
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Dec.31.2007
"Riveting . . . twists that will spin you around." -Newsweek
When Beth Cappadora, a suburban mother and photographer, loses sight of her three-year-old son, Ben, at her fifteenth high-school reunion, not only does her life implode, her family's does as well. Her husband, Pat, discovers...
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Dec.31.2007
When four friends who ruled the school twenty years ago gather for an idyllic sailing vacation - meant to comfort Olivia, who has returned home a widow after twenty years abroad - they expect two weeks of gossip, sunbathing and drinks with little umbrellas.
Instead, two days into their crossing, a...
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Dec.19.2007
Jenny and Amanda Ruth were best friends in a small Alabama town until eighteen-years-old Amanda Ruth was murdered. Now, fourteen years later, Jenny has traveled with her husband to China to scatter Amanda Ruth’s ashes and finally fulfill her friend’s dream of visiting her Chinese father’s homeland...
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Dec.17.2007
Through literary works and public appearances, Edith Bruck, born 1932 in Hungary, has devoted her life to bearing witness to what she experienced in the Nazi concentration camps. In 1954 she settled in Rome and is today the most prolific writer of Holocaust narrative in Italian. The book is...
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Dec.16.2007
The 1950s saw waves of Freudian disciples set up practices. In The Last Good Freudian, Brenda Webster describes what it was like to grow up in an intellectual and artistic Jewish family at that time. Her father, Wolf Schwabacher, was a prominent entertainment lawyer whose clients included the Marx...
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