Now available in paperback, Garrison Keillor’s The Book of Guys spent nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The beloved author of five previous bestsellers, including Lake Wobegon Days delivers a hilarious collection of 22 stories about all kinds of guys..
Tag: Fiction
Yoruba Girl Dancing
In the tradition of The Whiteness of Bones, the poignant, funny, and utterly winning story of an African girl’s metamorphasis into an upper-class English schoolgirl–with an edge. Bedford, who herself survived leaving Nigeria behind for England, turns her heroine’s passage through the labyrinth of race and culture into a bittersweet but triumphant odyssey..
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
In this national bestseller and winner of the Booker Prize, Roddy Doyle, author of the ‘Barrytown Trilogy’, takes us to a new level of emotional richness with the story of ten-year-old Padraic Clarke. Witty and poignant–and adored by critics and readers alike–Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha charts the trumphs, indignities, and bewilderment of Paddy as he tries to make sense of his changing world. print..
The Portable Western Reader
The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as it is in its landforms, yet what has come to stand for ‘Western’ writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. This authoritative anthology assembled poems, essays, stories, and excepts–by Ken Kesey, Raymond Carver, Larry McMurtry, Ivan Doig, and many others–which transcend the myth and explore the vast range of Wetsern experience..