Literary Fiction | Fiction
Feb.19.2009
From Publishers WeeklyTo poet Martin Weinstock, disgruntled lecturer at Harvard, the Ivy League school is a deadly place, rife with faculty suicides yet smug with an insular narrowness of vision. Blumenthal's graceful, wise, moving first novel begins as a savage, hilarious satire of academia and...
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Feb.11.2009
Novella set in industrial Lorain, Ohio, along with short stories set in industrial Ohio Valley and four works of creative nonfiction.
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Feb.01.2009
Cal was the one. The kid had everything a fighter needed and if he didn't become a champion then Riley would have no one to blame but himself...
Cal and his long-standing friend and trainer Riley are on their way to Mexico for a make-or-break rematch with the legendary Rivera, who has never been...
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Jan.28.2009
An encounter with a nineteenth century psychiatrist and a girl from the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt who refuses to speak, sleep or eat.
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Jan.28.2009
A fictionalised autobiography of the scientist Alfred Wegener - the man behind the idea of continental drift.
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Jan.26.2009
Forgetting English explores the indelible imprint of home upon identity and the ways in which new frontiers both defy and confirm it. From a biologist navigating the icy moonscape of Antarctica to a businesswoman seeking refuge in the South Pacific, the characters who inhabit these stories travel...
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Jan.26.2009
Stories about power and powerlessness, and those moments when the balance of power - between a violent father and his daughter, between a doctor and his smug patient, between an unsuspecting teenager and the dangerous world around him - can subtly or dramatically change for ever. Prize-winning...
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Jan.25.2009
Betrayed by his art and disillusioned by his job as a professor, Ray Casper finds that his long-time girlfriend has just left him. At the death of his estranged father, he links up with his out-of-work brother Sammy, and things really get complicated. Sammy moves in with Ray and needs a job; Ray...
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Jan.21.2009
For fans of Jacqueline Carey and Ursula K. LeGuin, a lush, literary debut fantasy of love, ruin, and the ties of blood.
Sorykah Minuit has just two jobs aboard an ice-drilling submarine: meeting her quota and keeping her penis a secret. It’s no easy trick because when Sorykah’s frightened, she...
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