"A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." āLily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers
Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces himā¦
"A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy...Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and-this matters most-intensely ponderable." -Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review "This is what literature is meant to be." -Anthony Burgess "Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and style...The conviction and consistency are total. Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece." -Anthony Thwaite, Observer "Extraordinary...Suffused with melancholy and wonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel that people will be reading for a long, long time." -Michael Dirda,ā¦
The evident love of writing, and the insights into how others have done it, plus a palpable kindness behind the writing made this seem (not in a bad way) almost healthy.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ From the Booker Prizeāwinning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselvesāand our world today.
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD ā¢ ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Thrillist, BookPage ā¢ ā[A] worship song to writers and readers.āāOprah Daily
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russianā¦
An intricate pas de deux in which five romantic ballets are threaded with a story about memory and fallibility set in a lost Technicolor Los Angeles. The novel inhabits the mythic stories of classic balletāNijinsky and Pavlova, George Balanchine and Joseph Cornellāwhile simultaneously entering into the life of a narrator who resembles the film director John Cassavetes.