Billy Brent and Alice Stephens are star-crossed like all great lovers. Their need for each other drives them from Istanbul to Miami, Venice to Mexico. After years of encounters and escapes, they lose themselves deep in a desert wilderness, searching for a way forward, only to learn that sometimes the trail simply forks. From Charlie Smith, author of three New York Times Notable Books, comes his long-awaited new novel, his first in more than a decade. An exploration of the true particulars of obsession, Three Delays is a book of the spirit, of how broken people love and persist from darkness to darkness.

Three Delays: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Smith, Charlie

United States

Harper-perennial

In Men in Miami Hotels, Smith tells the story of Cot Sims, a listing Miami gangster who returns to Key West aiming to—among other things—save his fool-proof mother from homelessness after a recent hurricane. For love, for cash, and for the hell of it, he snatches a trove of emeralds that his boss, the relentlessly vicious Albertson, keeps hidden on a small island. And then trouble, which has been coiling around him for years like a snake, bites.
Cot has forty-eight hours to return the emeralds before items of equal or greater value—namely, the lives of everyone he loves—are repossessed by Albertson and his army of hired gunmen. Fleeing across the Caribbean, Cot blazes a trail of survival, skeltering between the narrowing walls of fate.
Charlie Smith has been called a novelist of "appalling brilliance" on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. Critics have praised his work with the fervor of converts. And his prose, as radiant and dynamic as it has ever been, "lands him in the ranks of America's greatest contemporary fiction writers" (Houston Chronicle).

Men in Miami Hotels: A Novel

A sweeping, eerily resonant epic of race and violence in the Jim Crow South: a lyrical and emotionally devastating masterpiece from Charlie Smith, whom the New York Public Library has said “may be America’s most bewitching stylist alive.”
Delvin Walker is just a boy when his mother flees their home in the Red Row section of Chattanooga, accused of killing a white man. Taken in by Cornelius Oliver, proprietor of the town’s leading Negro funeral home, he discovers the art of caring for the aggrieved, the promise of transcendence in the written word, and a rare peace in a hostile world. Yet tragedy visits them near daily, and after a series of devastating events—a lynching, a church burning—Delvin fears being accused of murdering a local white boy and leaves town.
Haunted by his mother’s disappearance, Delvin rides the rails, meets fellow travelers, falls in love, and sees an America sliding into the Great Depression. But before his hopes for life and love can be realized, he and a group of other young men are falsely charged with the rape of two white women, and shackled to a system of enslavement masquerading as justice. As he is pushed deeper into the darkness of imprisonment, his resolve to escape burns only more brightly, until in a last spasm of flight, in a white heat of terror, he is called to choose his fate.
In language both intimate and lyrical, novelist and poet Charlie Smith conjures a fresh and complex portrait of the South of the 1920s and ’30s in all its brutal humanity—and the astonishing endurance of one battered young man, his consciousness “an accumulation of breached and disordered living . . . hopes packed hard into sprung joints,” who lives past and through it all.

Ginny Gall: A Novel

Harper

The egotistical, uninhibited Elizabeth Bonnet Burdette, daughter of a multimillionaire Charleston banker and the wife of the head of a powerful business dynasty, recklessly and relentlessly pursues sensational thrills and experiences, regardless of the cost

Canaan - 1st UK Edition

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

The egotistical, uninhibited Elizabeth Bonnet Burdette, daughter of a multimillionaire Charleston banker and the wife of the head of a powerful business dynasty, recklessly and relentlessly pursues sensational thrills and experiences, regardless of the cost

Canaan

Avon/Books

Indistinguishable from the Darkness

Publisher's review materials laid in. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Indistinguishable from the Darkness. Review Copy.

Reference

NY: Norton (1990). 1st ed.

A fine hardcover copy with fine jacket. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. NOT ex-library. 70pg. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 0393034526. ISBN/EAN: 9780393034523. Inventory No: 017787.

The Palms: Poems

Poetry

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A collection of new poems by the author of Before and After explores themes of desire and lost love, using heroin as a metaphor for both in the title poem.

Heroin: And Other Poems

W.W.Norton&Company

Collects poems that focus on the loss of love and the personal connections that drift away.

Women of America

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Three Delays: A Novel

Men in Miami Hotels: A Novel

Ginny Gall: A Novel

Ginny Gall: A Novel

Canaan - 1st UK Edition

Canaan

Indistinguishable from the Darkness. Review Copy.

The Palms: Poems

Heroin: And Other Poems

Women of America