When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unravelling, relocates to Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at a county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from a drug...
The hero of Daniel Woodrell’s Tomato Red is the most endearingly out-of-control loser you’re likely to meet. Sammy Barlach looks like a person “who should in any circumstances be considered a suspect”: clerks follow him through the supermarket when...
They call themselves The Dewsweepers every weekend morning throughout the season, they are the first group to tee off at the stately 100 year old Onandaga Club in upstate New York. Ranging in age from their late thirties to...
It is late summer 2008 and forty-year-old Salinger Nash, who has been plagued since adolescence by a mercurial depression, leaves the north-west London house he shares with girlfriend for his older brother Carson’s home in New Orleans. It is...
Scott’s haunting and hilarious second collection of short stories is set in disparate spots across the American map — from Kansas to Cape Cod to New York City — and are written with such piercing universality that you sense...
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