5 results for '"William Maxwell"'

An evocative tribute to writers and artists of note makes real the life and times of such figures as Byron, Virginia Woolf, and Giacommeti through an analysis of their writings.

[In this book, the author] explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a...

To eight-year old Bunny Morison, his mother is an angelic comforter in whose absence nothing is real or alive. To his older brother, Robert, his mother is someone he must protect, especially since...

A New York Times Notable Book from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune)By turns compassionate, gently humorous,...

A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of short stories from around the world that celebrate gardens and gardenersGardens have been fruitful settings for stories ever since Adam and Eve were...