The Dreamers

Hall, Brian

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

“A tragic portrait . . . presented with sympathy and frequently with humor . . . [of] a disparate people who were never united except by their resentment of a foreign conqueror.” – Atlantic Monthly In The Impossible Country, Brian Hall relates his encounters with Serbs, Croats, and Muslims— “real people, likeable people” who are now overcome with suspicion and anxiety about one another. Hall takes the standard explanations, the pundits’ predictions, and the evening news footage and inverts our perceptions of the country, its politics, its history, and its seemingly insoluble animosities.

The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia

History

Europe

Penguin Publishing Group

Brian Hall’s compulsively readable novel vividly re-creates Lewis and Clark’s extraordinary journey into the unknown western frontier. Focusing on the emblematic moments of the participants’ lives, the story unfolds through the perspectives of four competing voices—from the troubled and mercurial figure of Meriwether Lewis, the expedition leader who found that it was impossible to enter paradise without having it crumble around him, to Sacagawea, the Shoshone girl-captive and interpreter for the expedition, whose short life mirrored the disruptive times in which she lived. Bringing the day-to-day life of the expedition alive as no work of history ever could, Hall’s magnificent novel fills in the gaps and provides a new perspective on the most famous journey in American history.

I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark

United States

Penguin??Books

The perceptive and beguiling tale of a young girl's development as only her father can see it Chosen as one of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years by Slate Like most biographies, Brian Hall's charming account of his daughter Madeleine begins at her birth. But unlike most biographies, it concludes with her third birthday. Along the way, it describes Madeleine's intriguing transition from infant solipsism through toddler self-absorption to a small person's sociability. Drawing on the same subtle humor and eye for detail that imbued I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company, his acclaimed novel of the Lewis and Clark expedition, Hall gives us a look at Madeleine's milestones: her first laugh, first words, first tantrum, and brings it all to life from the inside out. By speculating on his daughter's perceptions and experience as she grows, Hall gives us candid and informed insights into the evolution of language, attachments and separations, and a youngster's curiosity and fear. What emerges is a portrait of growing consciousness in action, a universal voyage whose every revelation and frustration is captured with stunning detail and intimacy.

Madeleine's World: A Biography of a Three-Year-Old

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

The life of Robert Frost, brilliantly re-imagined by the author of the acclaimed I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company Called "a spellbinding prose stylist"(Los Angeles Times), Brian Hall drew extraordinary praise for his novel I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company, in which he captured the personal lives of Lewis and Clark. Now he turns his talents to Robert Frost, arguably America's most famous poet. Through the revelatory voice of fiction, Hall gives us an artist toughened by tragedy, whose intimacy with death gave life to his poetry-for him, the preeminent symbol of man's form-giving power. This is the exquisitely rendered portrait of one man's rages, guilt, generosity, and defiant persistence-as much a fictional masterwork as it is a meditation on greatness.

Fall of Frost: A Novel

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

"A novel wise in the complexities of adolescence and the human heart." --The Washington Post\nLonging to escape the rundown commune outside of Ithaca, New York where she lives with her organic-farmer mother, assorted half-siblings, and a cow named Marilyn, the precociously well-read Saskia White, twelve, imagines herself as the noble contemporary of Odysseus, Marco Polo, and Horatio Hornblower. But Saskia's elaborate fantasies are soon upstaged by her real-life, long-lost father, who leads Saskia and her best friend Jane on a camping trip that turns into an epic adventure of love, sex, and lies.\nSaskia is as unforgettable as her own heroes, a young girl whose story resonates with a rare and joyous sense of life and discovery.

The Saskiad: A Novel

Literary

Longing to escape the rundown commune where she lives with her organic-farmer mother, assorted half-siblings, and a cow named Marilyn, the precociously well-read Saskia White, twelve, imagines herself as the noble contemporary of Odysseys, Marco Polo, and Horatio Hornblower. Saskia's elaborate fantasies are soon upstaged by her real-life, long-lost father, who leads Saskia and her best friend Jane on a camping trip that turns into an epic adventure of love, sex, and lies.
Saskia is as unforgettable as her own heroes, a young girl whose story resonates with a rare and joyous sense of life and discovery.

Contemporary

Picador

Chronicles the author's travels by bicycle through the mountainous roads of Romania and Bulgaria, a journey from which he garnered an empathetic understanding of people and politics behind the Iron Curtain

Stealing from a Deep Place: Travels in Southeastern Europe

Travel

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

The story of a girl with a highly developed sense of fantasy. She is Saskia, 12, who lives on a farm in New York State. She has built around her a world in which such historic figures as Odysseus and Marco Polo actually exist. Yet she is still capable ofperforming the day-to-day chores on the farm.As she grows up in a commune in rural New York, twelve-year-old Saskia invents an imaginary world to escape her humdrum surroundings, but a mysterious invitation from her father soon distracts her attention

The Saskiad

Houghton/Mifflin

The author explores the changes that occur in his daughter's life from the moment she is born through her third birthday, attempting to put into words her realizations about herself, her life, family, and surroundings

Madeleine's World: A Child's Journey from Birth to Age Three

Biographies & Memoirs

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The Dreamers

The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia

I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark

Madeleine's World: A Biography of a Three-Year-Old

Fall of Frost: A Novel

The Saskiad: A Novel

The Saskiad: A Novel

Stealing from a Deep Place: Travels in Southeastern Europe

The Saskiad

Madeleine's World: A Child's Journey from Birth to Age Three