Far Beyond the Gates: A Novel
Mercer University Press, March 2020. Hardcover. Williams will be signing at the Decatur Library on the 9th of March, and your book will be available shortly after that. More
New Arrivals
Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker
Random House, April 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE SPERBER PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - This fascinating biography reveals the untold story of the legendary New Yorker profile writer--author of Joe Gould's Secret and Up..... More
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
Viking, May 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. A glimmering collection of new short fiction from the Booker Prize winner. "Lively writes with an astringent blend of sympathy and detachment, emotional wisdom and satiric wit." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In such acclaimed novels as The Photograph, Family Album, and How..... More
Rabbit, Run
Alfred A.Knopf, February 1970. Book Club. Hardcover. "Brilliant and poignant...By his compassion, clarity of insight and crystal-bright prose, he makes Rabbit's sorrow his and our own." THE WASHINGTON POST Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in..... More
The Pursuit of Love with Love in a Cold Climate
Hamish Hamilton, 1985. First Thus. Cloth. First reissue of these 2 Nancy Mitford classics under one cover. (First published in 1945 and 1949 respectively). Mildly edgeworn dust jacket with some splatter of soiling. Red cloth with gold lettering. Two tiny brown spots top textblock edge. More
Neverwhere: The Author's Preferred Edition
William Morrow, July 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. The #1 New York Times bestselling author's ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his "preferred text"--and including the special "Neverwhere" tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back." Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman's darkly hypnotic first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the..... More
The Uses of Error
Harvard University Press, February 1991. First Edition. Cloth. "The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity, is to an incalculable extent a history of error." So writes Frank Kermode of a history to which..... More
Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (Library of America) (#195): Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Cathedral / Stories from Furious Seasons, Fires, and Where I'm Calling From / Beginners / Other Stories and Selected Essays.
Library of America, August 2009. Cloth. Raymond Carver's spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and '80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver..... More
The Prague Orgy
Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random, April 2006. Trade Paperback. Nathan Zuckerman is visiting Prague, where intellectuals come searching for Kafta, where misfits who don't submit decently to their misfortunes act out a comedy of manners in decadence. Here Zuckerman meets Olga, and brings home lessons for the American writer -..... More
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel
Vintage, November 1990. Trade Paperback. This is the definitive, widely acclaimed translation of the major prose work of one of our century's greatest poets -- "a masterpiece like no other" (Elizabeth Hardwick) -- Rilke's only novel, extraordinary for its structural uniqueness and purity of language. First published in 1910, it..... More
The Opportune Moment, 1855 (Czech Literature Series)
Dalkey Archive Press, April 2011. Trade Paperback. The nineteenth-century founding of "free settlements" in the Americas serves as a starting point for the new novel by popular Czech author Patrik Ouredn?k. Simultaneously satiric and philosophical, "The Opportune Moment, 1855," opens with an Italian anarchist's missive to his noble former mistress..... More
Hour of the Star (Reissue)
New Directions Publishing Corporation, February 1992. Trade Paperback. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her..... More
Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea
Random House Inc, June 1994. Trade Paperback. Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence. Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the tenets of the adult..... More
Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
Vintage, January 1999. Trade Paperback. In "Memoirs of a Geisha," we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. Sayuri's story begins in a...... More
Apeirogon: A Novel
Random House, February 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. "A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart."--Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire From the National Book Award-winning and bestselling..... More
Wunderland: A Novel
Ballantine Books, February 2020. Paper Back. USA TODAY BESTSELLER - "Searing . . . a heartbreaking page-turner."--People "Both heartbreaking and hopeful, this story of a daughter searching for the truth about her mother's secret past, tangled up in old secrets and terrible lies, kept me up late turning pages."--Martha Hall..... More
Pretty as a Picture
Viking, February 2020. Hardcover. A CrimeReads Most Anticipated Book of 2020 An egomaniacal movie director, an isolated island, and a decades-old murder--the addictive new novel from the bestselling author of Dear Daughter Marissa Dahl, a shy but successful film editor, travels to a small island off the coast of Delaware..... More
Greenwood: A Novel
Hogarth, February 2020. Hardcover. A magnificent generational saga that charts a family's rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, from one of Canada's most acclaimed novelists Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize - "A rugged, riveting novel . . . This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard..... More
Soot
Doubleday Books, February 2020. Hardcover. The electrifying sequel to the national bestseller Smoke - bringing back readers to a world that Entertainment Weekly called "Part Dickens, part dystopia, and totally immersive." The year is 1909. It has been ten years since Thomas Argyle, Charlie Cooper and Livia Naylor set off..... More
Celebration (Latin American Literature Series)
Dalkey Archive Press, June 2003. Trade Paperback. In the early morning of March 31, 1970 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the annual birthday celebration of a prominent and wealthy young artist is taking place; and a train docked in Plaza Station filled with starving, drought-stricken migrant workers seeking relief gets turned..... More
Television
Dalkey Archive Press, March 2007. Trade Paperback. The amusingly odd protagonist and narrator of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's novel is an academic on sabbatical in Berlin to work on his book about Titian. With his research completed, all he has left to do is sit down and write. Unfortunately, he can't decide..... More
Back in the World : Stories
Random House Inc, October 1996. Trade Paperback. To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping..... More
The Loved One
Back Bay Books, September 1999. Trade Paperback. Described by the author as "a little nightmare produced by the unaccustomed high-living of a brief visit to Hollywood, " "The Loved One" is an outrageously comic novel of the commericalization of death itself. Mr. Joyboy, the ultimate embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium..... More
The Dog Star
Hill Street Press, June 1998. Trade Paperback. Fifty years after its original publication in 1950, The Dog Star, one of the classics of Southern literature, is restored to print. The story of 15-year-old Blackie Pride, The Dog Star chronicles the life and hardships of this young boy as he roams..... More
The Coast of Chicago: Stories
Picador, March 2004. Trade Paperback. The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A child's collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder's inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin floating down..... More
