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  • BARKING MAN
    MADISON SMARTT BELL
    A "brave, accomplished and utterly compelling" short story collection from the National Book Award–finalist author of Zig Zag Wanderer ( Kirkus Reviews).   Deploying a seemingly unlimited range of subject and setting, Bell's latest collection of stories are as inventive as they are revelatory. From a monastic Chinese mouse who ponders his lot in life to the aching frustrations ...

    $119.00

  • STRAIGHT CUT
    MADISON SMARTT BELL
    An American film editor is caught up in Europe's drug underworld in a "spare and cinematic" character study by the award-winning author of Soldier's Joy ( Time).   Tracy Bateman eeks out a meager existence as a freelance film editor. Other than alcohol, his closest companion is a dog dying of cancer. And his wife, Lauren, is off with his friend Kevin, who's also his occasional ...

    $200.00

  • SOLDIER'S JOY
    MADISON SMARTT BELL
    A Vietnam vet returns to rural Tennessee in this acclaimed novel from the National Book Award–nominated author of Save Me, Joe Louis.   After the horrors of Vietnam, Thomas Laidlaw returns to his home in rural Tennessee where he spends his days raising sheep and growing vegetables. At night he likes to roam the quiet countryside and practice his banjo, revelling in the roots mu...

    $119.00

  • THE WASHINGTON SQUARE ENSEMBLE
    MADISON SMARTT BELL
    Seven men tell their stories of survival on the streets of 1980s New York City in this gritty debut novel by the National Book Award–finalist.   Like most New Yorkers, Johnny B. Goode hustles to make a living. His beat happens to be pharmaceutical distribution. His place of business, Washington Square Park. Over the course of one weekend, he and his crew of "retailers" sell the...

    $119.00

  • WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
    MADISON SMARTT BELL
    An "exhilirating" novel of domestic terrorism in the gritty streets of 1980s New York from the National Book Award–finalist and author of Straight Cut ( The New Yorker).   As a staff photographer at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan, Clarence Dmitri Larkin is exposed to the fraying underbelly of New York City. Drawn in by the stories of the sick, the lost, and the insane, Larkin's...

    $119.00

  • ZERO DB
    MADISON SMARTT BELL
    From the National Book Award–finalist: This "brilliant" story collection exploring the lives of dispossessed Americans is "one of his best achievements" ( The Washington Post).   Thematically focused on hard-luck characters trapped by desperate circumstances, Bell once again showcases his range and versatility in these eleven deeply felt stories. Whether in the Deep South or th...

    $119.00

  • THE YEAR OF SILENCE
    MADISON SMARTT BELL
    The National Book Award–finalist movingly examines the lives of a group of New Yorkers deeply affected by one woman's troubled life— and death.   Marian is haunted by an unspoken past reflected in the choices she makes. Whether it's her drug addiction or her dubious affairs, she finds herself increasingly adrift and alone. Yet in a city of millions, her story plays a part in th...

    $119.00

  • DOCTOR SLEEP
    MADISON SMARTT BELL
    Sophisticated suspense from a National Book Award finalist, about a hypnotist tormented by insomnia and a hunt for a killer: "Excellent…revelatory writing."— The Washington Post Book World Adrian Strother is a hypnotherapist who, paradoxically, can't get to sleep. He's left New York to ply his trade in a depressed section of London, treating phobias and addictions and doing the...

    $179.00

  • ZIG ZAG WANDERER
    MADISON SMARTT BELL
    A story collection spanning New York to Haiti and beyond from the National Book Award–finalist and author of Barking Man.   Spanning twenty years, Bell's third collection of stories showcases his phenomenal literary range and his unwavering focus on characters looking in from the outside. Punks, hustlers, and lost souls of all ages and backgrounds are drawn with an exquisite ey...

    $119.00

  • SAVE ME, JOE LOUIS
    MADISON SMARTT BELL
    Two small-time thieves get in over their heads in this literary thriller from the "virtuoso novelist" and author of Soldier's Joy ( The Philadelphia Inquirer).   Not quite at home in the backwoods of Tennessee, and even less suited for the service, drifter Macrae lands on his feet in New York City in the 1980s. There, he teams up with a petty thief named Charlie, and the two hi...

    $119.00