Max is born old: he looks like a little old man. As he grows up, he gets younger and younger. His life is complicated not only by this quirk but by his love for Alice, who grows older as he grows younger. The action of the novel begin...
A Today Show Summer Reads PickNPR Critics' Lists: Summer 2008'We think we know the ones we love.' So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect, and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship, how we can ever trul...
No one here is as important as the omniscient narrator, who...pulls the strings of his puppets' sensibilities so relentlessly that they begin to sound alike, and familiar....A strong vision so consistently gorgeous it's sometimes tedi...
In the title story of this collection, neighborhood boys crouch in a backyard toolshed, and conspire to prove their piano teachers to be witches. In 'Cannibal Kings,' a disillusioned young man accompanies a troubled boy on a tour of...
Less Is Lost (The Arthur Less Books, ...
Andrew Sean GreerIn the follow-up to the “bedazzling, bewitching, and be-wonderful” (New York Times) best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable roa...
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
Andrew Sean GreerFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author Andrew Sean Greer comes The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, a rapturously romantic story of a woman who finds herself transported to the “other lives” she might h...