Bradford Morrow - Böcker

Pages of a weathered original sonata manuscript - the gift of a Czech immigrant living in Queens - come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury. The gift comes with the request th...

Läs mer »

Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes th...

Läs mer »

In rural upstate New York, a disturbing vision of a hanged girl leads diviner Cassandra Brooks and her family into peril, and conjures ghosts from her own haunted childhood. At once a journey of self-discovery and an unorthodox murder mystery, thi...

Läs mer »

From critically acclaimed novelist Bradford Morrow comes a richly told literary thriller about the dark side of the rare book world. The bibliophile community is stunned when a reclusive rare book collector is found on the floor of his Montauk hom...

Läs mer »

Music and war, war and music--these are the twin motifs around which Bradford Morrow, recipient of the Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, has composed his magnum opus, The Prague Sonata, a novel more than a doz...

Läs mer »

The author of the acclaimed suspense novel The Forger returns to the dangerously rarified world of literary forgery in this tense sequel.When a scream shatters the summer night outside their country house in the Hudson Valley, reformed literary fo...

Läs mer »

Threats, promises, and the allure of Edgar Allan Poe's Tamerlane -the rarest book in American literature-pull readers back into the dangerous world of literary forgery in this heart-stopping sequel to The Forgers

Läs mer »

"e;Twining music history with the political tumults of the 20th century, The Prague Sonata is a sophisticated, engrossing intellectual mystery."e;-The Wall Street Journal Music and war, war and music-these are the twin motifs around which ...

Läs mer »

A brutal murder incites paranoia in the rare-book world in a ';brilliantly written... lethally enthralling' novel of literary suspense (Joyce Carol Oates). The bibliophile community is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on th...

Läs mer »

World Outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth brings together twenty-seven essays written over a period of more than forty years by the man one of his publishers called "an American cultural monument." A brilliant self...

Läs mer »

A brilliant allegory that traces the life of a young woman whose sanity teeters on the edge as she tries to hold together her troubled family. Since childhood, Grace Brush has suffered episodic migraines. With them come hallucinatory visions, whic...

Läs mer »

A densely layered journey into the dark heart of the American Dream that spans continents and centuriesIn Bradford Morrow's debut novel, lightning-tongued mercenary Peter Krieger travels to Nicaragua to kidnap a man who may be a 480-year-old forme...

Läs mer »

A brilliant allegory that traces the life of a young woman whose sanity teeters on the edge as she tries to hold together her troubled family Since childhood, Grace Brush has suffered episodic migraines. With them come hallucinatory visions, which...

Läs mer »

Two Los Alamos boys forge a friendship in the shadow of their parents' history-changing work developing nuclear weaponsIn many ways, Los Alamos is an ideal place for best friends Brice McCarthy and Kip Calder to grow up. There's wilderness to expl...

Läs mer »

The domestic bliss of an architect and his wife is threatened by an unseen tormentor in this literary thriller by the award-winning author of The Forgers. When Grant's marriage begins to fall apart, he reflects upon the perfect lives of his uncle ...

Läs mer »

Ariel Rankin seeks to locate and save her unknown fathera man deeply scarred by his secret and brutal role in the history of his countryIn the sequel to Bradford Morrow's heralded Trinity Fields,young New Yorker Ariel Rankin learns that her birth ...

Läs mer »

A new novella by acclaimed author Bradford Morrow about a man who tracks an inexplicable plague of bird deaths, and the mystery's profound effect on his familyHundreds of red-winged blackbirds are discovered scattered, lifeless, around a greenhous...

Läs mer »

From a lineup of acclaimed literary talents, wide-ranging works centering on books and bibliophilia. Writing about writing itself and about the books that are home to the written word. A library of ideas about language and the book in all their fo...

Läs mer »

From a lineup of acclaimed literary talents, wide-ranging works centering on books and bibliophilia. Writing about writing itself and about the books that are home to the written word. A library of ideas about language and the book in all their fo...

Läs mer »

Russell Banks, Temple Grandin, and other renowned writers contemplate animalsand the way our own species interacts with them. Conjunctions: 61, A Menagerie gathers essays, fiction, and poetry that imagine the world of our fellow beings, animals. C...

Läs mer »

From a PEN Award winner for Literary Editing: ';Arguably the most distinguished journal of prose and poetry in America.' Elle Conjunctions' milestone fiftieth issue gathers together the many voices, forms, and styles that have defined the legendar...

Läs mer »

Literary spins on the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genresfrom Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, China Mieville, and many more. Over the past three decades, the most adventurous practitioners of the literary arts of science fi...

Läs mer »

Little-known literary works by Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and more: ';[An] extraordinary collection of inexplicably forgotten treasures.' New York magazine Radical Shadows collects lost, forgotten, suppressed, rare, or unknown works by major...

Läs mer »

Rick Moody on John Cheever; Ben Marcus on Dr. Seuss; Mona Simpson on Henry James: Forty-five essays by great writers, about great writers. For Tributes, Conjunctions invited a number of contemporary writers to pay homage to American literary maste...

Läs mer »

Russell Banks, Temple Grandin, and other renowned writers contemplate animalsand the way our own species interacts with them. Conjunctions: 61, A Menagerie gathers essays, fiction, and poetry that imagine the world of our fellow beings, animals. C...

Läs mer »

';Conjunctionsoffers a showplace for some of the most exciting and demanding writers now at work.' The Washington Post With work from the seventy-five poets who are the game-changing, bar-setting voices of our time first published in this volume,C...

Läs mer »

The Diviner's Tale is at once a journey of self-discovery and an unorthodox murder mystery, a tale of the fantastic and a family chronicle told by an otherwise ordinary woman.Walking a lonely forested valley in upstate New York, Cassandra Brooks c...

Läs mer »

New writings on defectors and deportees, migrants and refugees, and the feeling of being far from home. From the moment homes and homelands came into being, exile ensued. While narratives of exile share themes of banishment, loss and longing, they...

Läs mer »

Essays, fiction, and poetry reflecting on truth and illusion in a world filled with deceptions both treacherous and benign. Children deceive, as do grownups, and many are the moments when all of us even deceive ourselves. People of every age and s...

Läs mer »

New takes on nature by award-winning poets and writers, from Russell Banks to Lily Tuck and many more. InNatural Causes, a provocative collection of radical reinventions of the genre of nature writing, we encounter shrimp farms and spoonbills, mai...

Läs mer »