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A CLOSED EYE

A Closed Eye
tells of the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening.

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THE DEBUT

Dr. Ruth Weiss, a quiet scholar of forty devoted to the study of Balzac, is convinced that her life has been ruined by literature, and that she must make a new start in life.

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DOLLY

Aunt Dolly is flamboyant and unrepentantly selfish; her niece Jane is tactful and shy. Brought together, the two women show us that in families, love can surface in the most unlikely places.

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FRAUD

At the heart of
Fraud
lies a double mystery: What happened to Anna Durrant, a solitary woman who has disappeared from her London flat? And why has it taken four months for anyone to notice?

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HOTEL DU LAC

Edith Hope, author of romance novels, flees to the luxury of Hotel du Lac in Switzerland for peace and rest, and finds instead, an assortment of love’s casualties and exiles—and the attention of a worldly man keen on mischief and pleasure.

Winner of the Booker Prize
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INCIDENTS IN THE RUE LAUGIER

One muggy summer Maud Gonthier and two English boys share a flat in Paris’s Rue Laugier. Out of their volatile chemistry—a chemistry of longing, sensuality, and betrayal—comes a novel that is stylish, deeply knowing, and delightfully surprising.

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LATECOMERS

Hartmann and Fibich are “latecomers” to England, brought over as children from Nazi Germany. Their fifty-year relationship is at the center of a transcendently moving tale about the ambiguous pleasures of friendship and domesticity.

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LEWIS PERCY

In
Lewis Percy
, a man is torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him.

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A PRIVATE VIEW

A Private View
explores the funny yet moving complications that arise when loner George Bland comes up against Katy Gibb, a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude.

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PROVIDENCE

Providence
’s protagonist is Kitty Maule, who, in revenge against the impossibly charming and elusive man who rejects her, resolves to become “totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful.”

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I WAS AMELIA EARHART
by Jane Mendelsohn

On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart flew her Lockheed Electra into a cloud bank off the coast of New Guinea and disappeared. In this shimmering novel, Earhart speaks to us from beyond the sky, suggesting what might have happened afterward and proving that though the flesh is mortal, legends last forever.

“Lyrical. … A powerfully imagined work of fiction.”

—
The New York Times

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DANCING AFTER HOURS

Stories
by Andre Dubus

From a genuine master of the American short story comes a luminous new collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life.

“This whole collection is suffused with grace, bathed in a kind of spiritual glow.… 
Dancing After Hours
is beautiful.”

—
The New York Times Book Review

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THE JOY LUCK CLUB
by Amy Tan

For almost forty years the members of the Joy Luck Club have met to play mah jong, eat Chinese delicacies, and brag about their children. Now one of those women has died, and it is up to her daughter to take her place—to learn her mother’s secret story and those of the women who left China with her.

“Vivid … wondrous … what it is to be American, and a woman, mother, daughter, lover, wife, sister and friend—these are the troubling, loving alliances, and affiliations that Tan molds into this remarkable novel.”

—
San Francisco Chronicle

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BACK IN THE WORLD

Stories
by Tobias Wolff

To Tobias Wolff’s characters,
Back in the World
is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the vaguest notion of what normal is.

“Compelling.… Wolff is a master storyteller.”

—
The New York Times

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EDWIN MULLHOUSE

The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943–1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright
by Steven Millhauser

At age ten, Edwin Mullhouse writes a novel that will be hailed as a work of genius; at age eleven he is mysteriously dead. Documenting every episode is Jeffrey Cartwright, Edwin’s best friend and passionate biographer.

“A rare and carefully evoked novel.”

—
The New York Times Book Review

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HOTEL DU LAC

by Anita Brookner

Edith Hope, author of romance novels, flees to the luxury of Hotel du Lac in Switzerland for peace and rest, and finds instead an assortment of love’s casualties and exiles—and the attention of a worldly man keen on mischief and pleasure.

“Novels like hers are why we read novels.”

—
Christian Science Monitor

Winner of the Booker Prize
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INDEPENDENCE DAY

by Richard Ford

Independence Day
is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through the American commonplace—and through the layered consciousness of one of its most interesting representatives, Frank Bascombe.

“As gripping as it is affecting.… Ford has galvanized his reputation as one of his generation’s most eloquent voices.”

—
The New York Times

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS

by David Guterson

This enthralling novel, set on an isolated and ruggedly beautiful island in Puget Sound in 1954, is at once a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, the story of a doomed love affair, and a stirring meditation on place, prejudice, and justice.

“Compelling … heart-stopping. Finely wrought, flawlessly written.”

—
The New York Times Book Review

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award
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ANOTHER YOU

by Ann Beattie

An unerring portrait of several failed marriages,
Another You
is also a satire, a poignant domestic drama, and an ingenious psychological mystery.

“Powerful … her best novel and one of the richest and most satisfying new books I’ve read in years.”

—
Washington Post Book World

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OPEN SECRETS

by Alice Munro

Alice Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected telling of vanished schoolgirls and indentured brides, an eccentric recluse and a wife fleeing her husband and lover.

“One of the finest short story writers now writing.”

—
Chicago Tribune

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ANYWHERE BUT HERE

by Mona Simpson

Anywhere But Here
is a moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer. As they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions, Ann and Adele bring to life a novel that is a brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to keep moving, even at the risk of profound disorientation.

“Stunning … Simpson takes on—and reinvents—many of America’s essential myths.”

—Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times

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KRIK? KRAK!

Stories
by Edwidge Danticat

In these nine tales of life and death under Haiti’s dictatorships, Edwidge Danticat offers incandescent imagery, resilient female characters, and effortless narrative authority.

“Danticat’s calm clarity of vision takes on the resonance of folk art.”

—
The New York Times Book Review

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BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY

by Jay McInerney

Living in Manhattan as if he owned it, a young man tries to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of dawn with nothing but good will, controlled substances, and the wit to sustain him in his anti-quest, in this seminal novel that explores social mores and alienation in the 1980s.

“A rambunctious, deadly funny novel that goes right for the mark—the human heart.”

—Raymond Carver

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