Haunted by a memory of human failure, an aging man recalls his friendship, as a boy, with a tenant farmer's son and forces himself and others to recall the causes of a bloody murder and its consequences. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Beautifully observed, deftly rendering the civilities and constraints of a vanished era, They Came Like Swallows measures the subterranean currents of love and need that run through all our lives.
The world he woke up in is long dead, dusted in ashen powder, and yet Keisuke still sees splashes of color as he travels through it.
There must have been other Anderson characters that I was not aware of. I left Lincoln when I was an adolescent and never lived there again, and so I don't have an adult's perception of the place. For example, I don't know the part ...
The Reverend John Anderson was appointed to assist Thomas Campbell at Buffalo and failed to appear, and gave as his excuse that Mr. Campbell had deviated from orthodoxy. At the next meeting of the Presbytery, Anderson's excuse was ...
Blending together biography, memoir, and essay, the author details his twenty-five year relationship with the legendary writer and New Yorker fiction editor, brilliantly examining the powerful bond between mentor and mentee. Reprint.
What could be causing it? A Newbery Honor book of 1947, this extraordinary tale by a noted American author is gloriously illustrated with woodcut-style scratchboard graphics.
A mama cow’s devotion to her calf provides lessons in motherhood to a poor Southern woman in this novel of family, survival, and human-animal bonds.
The Folded Leaf
We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnson's award–winning collection Break Any Woman Down.
On the centennial of William Maxwell's birth, here is the second volume in a two- volume collected edition that reveals the full range of an extraordinary literary voice, a voice that John Updike has called "one of the wisest in American ...