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- books.google.comJulian Barnes - 2011 - 176 pages
This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. - books.google.comAmor Towles - 2012 - 335 pages
For fans of Fitzgerald and Capote, a witty, elegant fairytale of New York, set in 1938. - books.google.comMichael Ondaatje - 2012 - 256 pages
From the Hardcover edition. - books.google.comJohn Irving - 2013 - 624 pages
Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a ‘sexual suspect’, a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 — in his landmark novel of ‘terminal ... - books.google.comTea Obreht - 2011 - 337 pages
Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Bookand the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with “the deathless man.” But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her—the ... - books.google.comJoan Didion - 2012 - 188 pages
Shares the author's observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent. - books.google.comJulian Barnes - 2009 - 448 pages
Brilliantly imagined and irresistibly readable, Arthur & George is a major new novel from Julian Barnes, a wonderful combination of playfulness, pathos and wisdom. - books.google.comGeraldine Brooks - 2008 - 400 pages
The "complex and moving"(The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur ... - books.google.comJulian Barnes - 2010
Although he cautions us that "this is not my autobiography," the book nonetheless reveals much about Barnes the man and the novelist: how he thinks and how he writes and how he lives. - books.google.comJulian Barnes - 2011 - 320 pages
This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven! From the Trade Paperback edition.