Literary Fiction | Fiction
Aug.13.2008
On a steamy summer day in 1920, as the blood-red sun sets over New York's Hudson River, the leaders of two rival gangs from the Irish and Jewish ghettos slug it out on the Fulton Street docks. That day, Tony McGrath and Mike Roth fight to a bloody draw-- the first of many battles that will propel...
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Aug.01.2008
Product DescriptionA feast of sensuality, Payne's third epic novel narrates the story of the beautiful young Nadja, and her brooding lover Nikolai, as the two come of age in a springtime garden. When their world of earthly delights fades with the dying season, the two are exiled from their pastoral...
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Jul.31.2008
A failed artist receives a letter. It's a photo of his lost love, brutally murdered. He knows who the killer is-a young Venice Mafioso. He does nothing, until the dreams start. Then he plots vengeance. He buys a gun in Paris, then sleeps on trains towards death. He slays the Mafioso. Yet the...
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Jul.31.2008
Newt is a frightening ride through the hopes and horrors of a troubled American immigrant. Set in Seattle's loft art scene, two young lovers, Alysha and Newt, discover that the past is prelude to oblivion. Switching elegantly between Alysha's horrific past and her frenzied present, Newt delves into...
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Jul.31.2008
Nico, a young geneticist, perfects a human anti-shock serum made with hammerhead shark DNA. But the FDA won't let Nico try it on humans yet because of possible unstable genetic mutations. They want years of animal tests before she'll be allowed to try her stunning invention! But Nico's an ambitious...
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Jul.30.2008
Mantids is an update of the world's oldest novel—Petronius's Satyricon—with a twist. In Satyricon, the hero can't get an erection; in Mantids, the narrator can't get rid of one. Combine his Viagra overdose with an invasion by mutant female praying mantids and a scuzzed-out, speed-tweaker Astoria...
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Jul.14.2008
'How Perfect Is That': Sarah Bird is perfectly hysterical in this poke at Texas high society
12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, June 15, 2008
By JOY TIPPING / The Dallas Morning News jtipping@dallasnews.com
Sarah Bird gleefully pokes a gigantic, snarky hole in the Texas society bubble with her latest, How...
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Jul.14.2008
When her best friend dies, Girl, the 17-year-old street-punk narrator of Crashing America, leaves San Francisco for the heartland in search of a place where she can breathe again. Torn between her innate restlessness, an overwhelming longing for a sense of home, and a desperate fear of impending...
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