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  • Blood Test

    A Comedy

    by Charles Baxter ...
    From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune) comes a comic novel about a divorced Midwestern dad who takes a cutting-edge medical test and learns that he has a predisposition to murder.In this fresh take on love and trouble in America, Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday-school teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by the results of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Feast of Love

    by Charles Baxter ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    National Book Award Finalist • A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people, from "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) and the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award"A near perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom." —The Washington PostThe Feast of Love is just that—a sumptuous work of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Gryphon

    New and Selected Stories

    by Charles Baxter ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    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, and haunting, this collection—sixteen classics with seven new stories—proves William Maxwell’s assertion that “nobody can touch Charles Baxter in the field that he has carved out for himself.”Whether ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Art of Subtext

    Beyond Plot

    by Charles Baxter ...
    Series series Art of...
    Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed, and the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • There's Something I Want You to Do

    Stories

    by Charles Baxter ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    "There’s something I want you to do.” This request—sometimes simple, sometimes not—forms the basis for the ten interrelated short stories that comprise this latest penetrating and prophetic collection from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune).As we follow a diverse group of Minnesota citizens, each grappling with their own heightened fears, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories (LOA #235)

    Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods /uncollected stories

    by Sherwood Anderson ...
    The first complete anthology of short stories by “the creator of the American short story”— includes the landmark collection Winesburg, Ohio (Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic)In the winter of 1912, Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) abruptly left his office and spent three days wandering through the Ohio countryside, a victim of “nervous exhaustion.” Over the next few years, abandoning ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Burning Down the House

    Essays on Fiction

    by Charles Baxter ...
    Graywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles BaxterAs much a rumination on the state of literature as a technical manual for aspiring writers, Burning Down the House has been enjoyed by readers and taught in classrooms for more than a decade. Readers are rewarded with thoughtful analysis, humorous one-liners, and plenty of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Wonderlands

    Essays on the Life of Literature

    by Charles Baxter ...
    Searching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House.Charles Baxter’s new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the House and The Art of Subtext. In the mold of those books, Baxter shares years of wisdom and reflection on what makes fiction work, including essays that were first given as craft talks at the Bread Loaf ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Sun Collective

    A Novel

    by Charles Baxter ...
    ***A NEW YORK TIMES 2021 NOTABLE BOOK*A timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn to and unmoored by a local activist group more dangerous than it appears—from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune).**Once a promising actor, Tim Brettigan has gone missing. His father thinks he may have seen him among some homeless people. And though she ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • First Light

    by Charles Baxter ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    As two grown siblings explore their complicated history over one hot Fourth of July weekend, they come to terms with the experiences that put such distance between them and discover the imperfect love that ties them—from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune).Hugh Welch has cared for his little sister Dorsey ever since they were children, when ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bob Seger's House and Other Stories

    Edited by M. L. Liebler, Michael Delp ...
    Series series Made in Michigan Writers Series
    New short fiction by some of Michigan's well-known and highly acclaimed authors.Bob Seger's House and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by some of Michigan's most well-known fiction writers. This collection of twenty-two short stories serves as a celebration not only of the tenth anniversary of the Made in Michigan Writers Series but also of the rich history of writing and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saul and Patsy

    by Charles Baxter ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune), Saul and Patsy is "stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight" (The Los Angeles Times).Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both from the East Coast, they met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married life ... Read more

    $12.99 USD