New York City's Washington Square is the cruising ground of small-town drug dealer Johnny B. Goode, his main man, Holy Mother, his Black Muslim enforcer, a Puerto Rican voodooist, and the storytelling Porco Miserio

The Washington Square Ensemble (Contemporary American Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

BELL, MADISON SMARTT

Literary

Penguin Group USA

A photographer descends into New York City’s chaotic and brutal underground in this sweeping story of the Big Apple at its seediest It’s 1982, and Clarence Dmitri Larkin is working as a photographer at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan. The job offers a painfully clear perspective on a city sick with madness, fraught with crime, and coming apart at the seams. Larkin’s curiosity soon leads to a subterranean world of all the city’s secret dangers, including domestic terrorists with a nuclear device, a serial killer inspired by an occult past, and a disfigured arsonist who just might be the one to burn the whole city down. Waiting for the End of the World is a gritty portrait of 1980s New York, and an engrossing look at the battle of good versus evil in a city racked with violence and paranoia.

Waiting for the End of the World (Contemporary American Fiction)

Penguin??Books

In this story of romantic duplicity, drug deals, and double-crosses, Tracy discovers that the film editing job in Rome offered to him by an old friend is not all it seems

Straight Cut

Presents eleven short stories of irrationality and madness set in the ramshackle South, lower Manhattan, and the Great Plains of nineteenth-century America

Zero DB and Other Stories (Contemporary American Fiction)

The death of Marian, a modestly successful illustrator in Manhattan, touches the lives of many people in surprising ways

The Year of Silence (Contemporary American Fiction)

A man returns home from Vietnam to his now abandoned family homestead outside of Nashville, suffering from a serious psychological wound incurred in combat. He meets up with a childhood friend who is black, and together they battle against a platoon of Klansmen for the literal salvation of a local preacher.

Soldier's Joy (Contemporary American Fiction)

In ten sharply drawn tales, Madison Smartt Bell expands his masterly, inventive, and deftly textured fictional landscape to portray a collection of America's dispossessed characters. "Barking Man is a humane and mature book, the work of an important and talented writer."--The New York Times Book Review.

Barking Man and Other Stories (Contemporary American Fiction)

DEATH FOLLOWED HIM ACROSS THE OCEAN A freelance film editor, Tracy Bateman goes where the work is. So when his old partner calls with an assignment, Tracy finds himself on a plane to Rome.Â But there are surprises waiting for himâ€”deadly surprises that will lead him on a desperate chase across Europe, into the hands of a pair of brutal drug smugglers, and back to New York City, where the greatest betrayal of all awaitsâ€¦

Straight Cut (Contemporary American Fiction)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

When little girls become the victims of a serial killer's rage, an insomniac's gifts come violently into play in this riveting novel by one of today's greatest writers--author of Barking Man and Other Stories and Waiting for the End of the World.

Doctor Sleep

From the bestselling author of Soldier's Joy and Waiting for the End of the World comes a novel about the perils of living an unexamined life that "scratches the underbelly of America's dispossessed" (The Detroit News), as two men living on the fringes of society come to grips with who they are and their chances for survival.

Save Me, Joe Louis: A Novel (Contemporary American Fiction)

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