From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Martin Dressler" come three novellas--works of fiction that create a poetry of the impossible and blithely cross the threshold between the "real" world and the imaginary landscapes of art. "As Gothic as Poe and as imaginative as "Fantasia"".--"Entertainment Weekly". 240 pp. National print ads. 20,000 print. ...

This acclaimed collection of short stories from a talented young Pushcart Prize-winning writer provides wickedly funny, in-your-face contortions of all facets of our popular culture. ...

My Dearest Michael, <P" would so rather say these things to your face, but, as we both know, life doesn't often take requests...<P>In the top drawer of my armoire is a velvet pouch containing two heirlooms. The first is my locket. I would like you to return it to Betheltown for me -- to lay it by the hearth of the fireplace where I left my love so many years ago. I am certain that the roads will be grown over, but you will know the ...

The world of the professional musician is a dedication, a frustration, a business, and a way of life. In this novel, the author takes us behind the scenes of this world, revealing a milieu dominated by the relentless search for artistic and personal success. ...

The Dog King, winner of Europe's prestigious Aristeion Prize, is a work of fierce enchantment -- beautiful, terrifying, and sulphurously comic.<P>The setting is a town called Moor, where during the war thousands of prisoners were brutally killed in a nearby stone quarry. Now the war is over, and the victors have reduced Moor to a Dark Age penal colony, whose inhabitants must endlessly relive their guilt. Among those inhabitants are three ...

The death of the family patriarch shatters the apparent peace of the entire Torres clan and sets in motion wave after wave of emotions that reveal unsavory realities the family prefers to ignore. Suarez's portrayal of the strong women of the family, in particular, is daring, as is their resolve to pioneer generational change for this conservative clan. ...

In a parody of a thriller novel, Harry the Hack, newly recruited literary spy, follows a mystery woman seeking wisdom and sanity. ...

Forbes Wedderburn, a famous Scottish artist, is missing, presumed drowned, after an unsuccessful attempt to draw attention to the plight of grey seals which are being culled in large numbers. A journalist on the trail of the story interviews Wedderburns cousin, Malcolm Dow, who unravels a fascinating tale that takes us back one hundred years, revealing a sequence of mysterious and bizarre events that occurred in a Scottish coastal town at the ...

Boris Vian (1920-59), a trained engineer and jazz trumpet player, was a major literary figure in World War II France. Julia Older is the author or editor of many works. Her stories, translations, and poems have appeared in New Directions, the New Yorker, and many other journals. ...

This inventive novel is a series of questions and confessional answers, an internal dialogue between Josemar, a construction worker, and Maria, a privileged young woman. Looking back at the teenage passion they shared from the remove of ten years, they try to reconstruct their story despite the obstacles of time's passage, societal disapproval, and family pressure. See in a provincial Brazilian town, Blood of Requited Love explores memory and ...