0-679-73447-3/$9.00
The Chosen Place, the Timeless People
by Paule Marshall
A novel set on a devastated part of a Caribbean Island, whose tense relationships—between natives and foreigners, blacks and whites, haves and have-nots—keenly dramatize the vicissitudes of power.
“Unforgettable … monumental.”—Washington Post Book World
0-394-72633-2/$13.00
Bright Lights, Big City
by Jay McInerney
Living in Manhattan as if he owned it, a young man tries to outstrip the approach of dawn with nothing but his wit, good will and controlled substances.
“A dazzling debut, smart, heartfelt, and very, very funny.”—Tobias Wolff
Friend of My Youth
by Alice Munro
Ten miraculously accomplished stories that not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of human experience.
“She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries.”
—Cynthia Ozick
0-679-72957-7/$10.00
Mama Day
by Gloria Naylor
This magical tale of a Georgia sea island centers around a powerful and loving matriarch who can call up lightning storms and see secrets in her dreams.
0-679-72181-9/$10.00
Anywhere But Here
by Mona Simpson
An extraordinary novel that is at once a portrait of a mother and daughter and a brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to keep moving.
“Mona Simpson takes on—and reinvents—many of America’s essential myths … stunning.”—The New York Times
0-679-73738-3/$11.00
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
“Vivid … wondrous … what it is to be American, and a woman, mother, daughter, lover, wife, sister and friend—these are the troubling, loving alliances and affiliations that Tan molds into this remarkable novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle
0-679-72768-X/$10.00
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