Literary
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-10-01 | Author:Amy Tan [Tan, Amy]

WHEN WINTER CAME, Ermei was still cursing General Cape for stealing the pork leg. That’s because all the cured meat was gone, and so was the fresh. One by one, ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1969-09-26 | Author:Andrea Newman [Newman, Andrea]

* * * ‘How long is Prue away for?’ she asked one evening when they were lying on the bed, too lazy to dress, and she was watching him smoke ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Alejandro Zambra [Zambra, Alejandro]

IV. SPARES Gazmuri doesn’t matter, the one who matters is Julio. Gazmuri has published six or seven novels that, together, form a series on the recent history of Chile. Almost ...
( Category: Psychological March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Lydia Millet [Millet, Lydia]

• • • • • As he trudged up the dock to the hotel he had the dawn at his back, bands of pale pink over the sea. Exhaustion was ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Philip K. Dick [Dick, Philip K.]

10 With them, Joe Fernwright thought, there is not life but merely a synopsis of life. We are a thread that passes through their hands; always in motion, always flowing, ...
( Category: Science Fiction March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Ali McNamara [McNamara, Ali]

Twenty-One Sean and I stood on the pavement in the shadow of the Arc de Triomphe. We’d been in Paris for most of the day, visiting the many Louis Vuitton ...
( Category: Romantic Comedy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:David Bezmozgis [Bezmozgis, David]

17 It was at the front that Samuil had become aware of the intersection between the dreamlife of the living and the afterlife of the dead. When he stole a ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Walter Mosley [Mosley, Walter]

THREE DAYS LATER, Thomas was driven to the Rickerts’ house by the social worker. Thomas’s limp had become permanent by then, but he didn’t mind. He was much more worried ...
( Category: Psychological March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-30 | Author:Philip Roth [Roth, Philip]

Prague, Feb. 5, 1976 The phone awakens me at quarter to eight. “This is your wife-to-be. Good morning. I am going to visit you. I am in the lobby of ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-30 | Author:Philip Roth [Roth, Philip]

In the days that followed, our family home on the Weddesteeg was full of people coming and going, faces drawn with worry. From my room in the house, I could ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Barbara Gowdy [Gowdy, Barbara]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE The hard, metallic feeling persists. I lie face up on the barge-sized bed, arms rigid at my sides, eyelids heavy as coins, and immediately fall asleep. My dreams ...
( Category: Western March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Revolutionary Road [Road, Revolutionary]

FOUR "FLY THE COOP," Jack Ordway said, stirring his coffee. "Kick over the traces. Take off. Pretty nifty, Franklin." They were sitting at a ketchup-stained table for two in the ...
( Category: Family Life March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Richard Russo [Russo, Richard]

27 At two in the morning Mohawk is chilled and asleep. In the whole town not one person is abroad in the brittle night air. If anyone were awake indoors, ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Reed Farrel Coleman [Coleman, Reed Farrel]

Twenty-Seven Aftershocks I’d been back from New York for about a week, and that week had been a tale of two lives: both mine. On the one hand, everything was ...
( Category: Crime March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-08-14 | Author:Gianrico Carofiglio [Carofiglio, Gianrico]

23 I didn’t have to be in court the next day. I sent Maria Teresa to the courthouse to get some things sorted out at the clerk of the court’s ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )