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(0)Brock Clarke
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Powered by pitch-perfect dialogue, lovable characters, and surprising optimism, Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? is a modern-day take on Graham Greene's classic Travels with My Aunt, a novel about grabbing life, and holding on--wherever it may take you.--
Calvin Bledsoe's mother, a theologian and bestselling author, dies in a fiery explosion. Forty-nine-year-old Calvin's uninspired life is upended... and then a stranger shows up at the funeral, claiming...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Take the format of a spy thriller, shape it around real-life incidents involving international terrorism, leaven it with dark, dry humor, toss in a love rectangle, give everybody a gun, and let everything play out in the outer reaches of upstate New York [where a Danish cartoonist is relocated after having been involved in the controversy surrounding a depiction of Muhammad]"--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Funny, profound . . . a seductive book with a payoff on every page."-People
A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people. emerging at age twenty-eight, he creates a new life and identity as a husband and father. But when the homes of other famous...
5) Exley
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The literary equivalent of a half-court shot . . . Extraordinary."-NPR
For young Miller Le Ray, life has become a search. A search for his dad, who may or may not have joined the army and gone to Iraq. A search for a notorious (and, unfortunately, deceased) writer, Frederick Exley, author of the "fictional memoir" A Fan's Notes, who may hold the key to bringing Miller's father back. But most of all, his is a search for truth. As Miller says,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and syntax what fiction can--and can't--do.
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