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  • Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology

    Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron, Andrew Levy

    Paperback

    From William S. Burroughs to David Foster Wallace, Postmodern American Fiction offers up witty, risky, exhilarating, groundbreaking fiction from five decades of postwar American life.

  • Punch with Care

    Phoebe Atwood Taylor

    Paperback

    Back by popular demand for the first time in years, The Countryman Press is pleased to reissue four Cape Cod mysteries featuring the witty and salty Asey Mayo, "A local handyman who knows something about police work and everything about everybody's business" (Marilyn Stasio, Mystery Alley).

  • The Perennial Boarder

    Phoebe Atwood Taylor

    Paperback

    The familiar Cape Cod setting works its spell, and the cranky, colorful New England characters work their way through a deftly amusing and baffling story of plot and counterplot.

  • Palais-Royal

    Richard Sennett

    Paperback

    “Historical fiction at its most scrupulous and carefully researched. . . . A novel of this kind needs to be elegantly written while getting its period language unobtrusively convincing. Sennett achieves both requisites quite splendidly.” —D. J. Enright, New York Review of Books

  • The Book of Embraces

    Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage

    Paperback

    Parable, paradox, anecdote, dream, and autobiography blend into an exuberant world view and affirmation of human possibility.