Books from Turtle Point Press
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Love is War
By George Stade“The most striking and pleasurable feature of this very pleasurable book is the confident lilt of the voice—the prose sings itself and even has several refrains where the reader can hum along.
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Hell
By Henri BarbusseNo one who has ever read this remarkable novel and looked at human life through Barbusse's peephole can ever forget the experience.--Robert Baldick It is Barbusse, not Gide, not Proust...
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Touch Wood: Short Stories
By Joseph A. PorterTouch Wood acknowledges the sway of chance and contingency in our lives without entailing any facile despair. The gesture indeed manifests the guarded hope underpinning even the bleakest passages of...
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Clouds, Leaves, Waves: A Painter's Poem
By Gregory BottsWitty musings, vivid imaginings, and sketches of the performing artist and his circle.
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Trappings: New Poems
By Richard HowardPresents a series of monologues in verse, including a response to Browning's "My Last Duchess," views of Milton dictating to his daughters from them, paintings of the theme, and a...
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Tales Out of School: A Novel
By Benjamin TaylorTales Out of School is the story of the Mehmels, privileged and eccentric and headed into shipwreck, and of fourteen-year-old Felix, last of their line, who takes his rise from...
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The Shape of a City
By Julien GracqJulien Gracq, the most important writer in France, is also the only living writer whose complete works appear in a volume of the prestigious Pleiades editions. The most original of...
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Lost Splendor
By Prince Felix YoussoupoffThe autobiography of the man who killed Rasputin.