NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Book Review Notable Book An NPR "Great Reads" Book All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. Philip Bowman returns to America from the battlefields of Okinawa and finds...

An exquisite novel of lost lives and the elusiveness of happiness, this seductive, witty and tender book follows married couple Negra and Viri as fine cracks begin to show in the shimmering surface of their life. With an introduction by...

Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit.In 1960s France, two men meet and become friends. One of them is Philip Dean, a footloose Yale...

Burning the Days von Salter, James

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the...

First published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital-each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly...

Rewritten, not revised, version of author's The arm of flesh, published in 1961. von Salter, James