Edisto
10 best books like Edisto (Padgett Powell): Bring Up the Bodies, The Rats, Our Man in Havana, The Moviegoer, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Car, Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child, Come West and See: Stories, The Long and Faraway Gone, Animals Eat Each Other
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0805090037 (ISBN13: 9780805090031)
The sequel to Hilary Mantel's international bestseller and Man Booker Prize winner Wolf Hall explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the downfall of Anne Boleyn.
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| Author | James Herbert |
| ISBN | 0333761189 |
Furry little rodents, slowly chewing their food away. What food? Well, that's another story.
An old abandoned house in East London, surrounded by trees and bushes, so long inhabited almost no one remembered it was still out there. But it was. An unwary vagrant enters it, totally oblivious...
| Author | Graham Greene |
| ISBN | 0140184937 |
Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction
First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates to this day. Conceived as one of Graham Greene's 'entertainments,'...
| Author | Walker Percy |
| ISBN | 0375701966 |
The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback. The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he...
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0151365040 |
This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in...
By this point, Crews isn’t writing novels so much as extended metaphors. No one ever accused him of subtlety, but Car loses whatever traction he gained in the right direction with Karate. I notice that in Classic Crews, this and The Gypsy’s Curse are included in full so I am forced to capitulate that...
Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
| Author | Laura Cumming |
| ISBN | 1501198718 |
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades.
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Come West and See: Stories
| Author | Maxim Loskutoff |
| ISBN | 0393357015 |
In an isolated region of Idaho, Montana, and eastern Oregon, an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge escalates into civil war. Against this backdrop, Maxim Loskutoff shatters the myths of the West: a lonesome trapper falls in love with a bear; a newly married woman hatches a plot to murder a tree; and...
The Long and Faraway Gone
| Author | Lou Berney |
| ISBN | 0062292439 |
With the compelling narrative tension and psychological complexity of the works of Laura Lippman, Dennis Lehane, Kate Atkinson, and Michael Connelly, Edgar Award-nominee Lou Berney’s The Long and Faraway Gone is a smart, fiercely compassionate crime story that explores the mysteries of memory...
| Author | Elle Nash |
| ISBN | 1938604431 |
In Elle Nash’s stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way relationship with Matt, a satanist and a tattoo artist, and his girlfriend Frances, a new mom. The liaison is caged by strict rules and rigid emotional distance. Nonetheless, it’s all too easy to surrender...
