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  • HEART OF A DOG
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    HEART OF A DOG
    MIKHAIL BULGAKOV
    I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire stoves, and the horizon flared ambiguously, perhaps from heat lightning, perhaps from bombs. Later each night, as was my custom,...

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  • TALES OF NATURAL AND UNNATURAL CATASTROPHES
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    TALES OF NATURAL AND UNNATURAL CATASTROPHES
    PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
    The legendary writer Patricia Highsmith is best remembered today for her chilling psychological thrillers The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train, which was made into the classic film by Alfred Hitchcock and Raymond Chandler. A critically-acclaimed best seller in Europe, Highsmith struggled during her life for recognition in the United States, but since her death in 19...

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  • THE TREMOR OF FORGERY
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    THE TREMOR OF FORGERY
    PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
    The Tremor of Forgery is considered by many to be Patricia Highsmith's finest novel. Set in Tunisia in the mid-1960s, it is the story of Howard Ingham, an American writer who has gone abroad to gather material for a movie too sordid to be set in America. Ingham is cool towards Ina, the girlfriend he left behind in New York, but his feelings start to change when she doesn't answ...

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  • ELEVEN
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    ELEVEN
    PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
    Short stories of suspense by the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley—“a brilliant collection” with a foreword by Graham Greene (The Sunday Times). Master of tension Patricia Highsmith is best known for her novels of ever-increasing suspense, but she is equally adept at the short story, where “she is after the quick kill rather than the slow encirclement o...

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  • THE WARRIORS
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    THE WARRIORS
    SOL YURICK
    The basis for the cult-classic film and the inspiration for a concept album written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, executive produced by Nas, releasing from Atlantic Records on October 18 Every gang in the city meets on a sweltering July 4 night in a Bronx park for a peace rally. The crowd of miscreants turns violent after a prominent gang leader is killed, and chaos pre...

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  • A GAME FOR THE LIVING
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    A GAME FOR THE LIVING
    PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
    Ramón, a devout Catholic, fixes furniture in Mexico City, not far from where he was born into poverty. Theodore, a rich German expatriate and painter, believes in nothing at all. You’d think the two had nothing in common. Except, of course, that both had slept with Lelia. Two form an unlikely friendship, until Lelia is found brutally murdered. Both are suspects and each suspect...

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  • THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY
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    THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY
    PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
    “[A] classic psychological thriller.”—USA Today Originally published in 1964, and the winner of the CWA Best Foreign Novel Award, Patricia Highsmith’s The Two Faces of January is a chilling tale of suspense, suffused with her trademark slow, creeping unease. In a grubby Athens hotel, Rydal Keener is bored and killing time with petty scams. But when he runs into another American...

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  • THE CRY OF THE OWL
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    THE CRY OF THE OWL
    PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
    In a small Pennsylvania town, Robert Forrester is recuperating from a nasty divorce and a bout of psychological trouble. One evening, while driving home, he sees a pretty young woman framed by her bright kitchen window. Soon, he can’t keep himself away. But when Robert is inevitably discovered, obsession is turned on its head, and he finds himself unable to shake the young woma...

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  • THOSE WHO WALK AWAY
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    THOSE WHO WALK AWAY
    PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
    Ray Garrett, a wealthy young American living in Europe, is grieving over the death of his wife Peggy. Ray is at a loss for why she would take her own life, but Peggy’s father Ed Coleman, a painter, has no such uncertainty—he blames Ray completely. Late one night in Rome, Coleman shoots Ray at point-blank range. He thinks he’s had his revenge, but Ray survives and follows Colema...

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  • FOUND IN THE STREET
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    FOUND IN THE STREET
    PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
    “Fabulous, in all senses of that word . . . combining the best features of the suspense genre with the best of existential fiction—a thrilled reflection.”—Paul Theroux Elsie Tyler turns heads wherever she goes. After leaving her hometown upstate for Greenwich Village, the charming young waitress soon finds herself surrounded by admirers, including Jack and Natalia Sutherland, a...

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  • ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT
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    ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT
    JEANETTE WINTERSON
    Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the pecu...

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  • THE SPEED QUEEN
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    THE SPEED QUEEN
    STEWART O'NAN
    “If you haven’t read Stewart O’Nan, you have some catching up to do.”—Stephen King “Scathing and intelligent . . . Makes the skin crawl.” —Los Angeles Times In Stewart O’Nan’s cult classic crime novel, a death-row inmate gives her confession—a hair-raising tale of sex, drugs and murder across Oklahoma—in this “sexy, breathless, and pitch-perfect tale.” (Detour). I bet everyone ...

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