A Vittorini Omnibus: In Sicily, the Twilight of the Elephant, La Garibaldina: In Sicily and Other Novels (New ... Elio Vittorini New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1973             The Shipyard3 reviews Juan Carlos Onetti Five Star, 2007 an unknown Latin American classic + Existentialism without rhetoric + An Extraordinary Classic It's a shame that Onetti's oeuvre is almost unknown outside the Spanish-speaking countries, maybe because it is the complete opposite of the much popular magic realism and the way we think about Latin-American literature in general. His most famous work, The Shipyard could have been written by an ...             The Coast of Chicago: Stories8 reviews Stuart Dybek Picador, 2004 Highest recommendation. + The Polish Kerouac + Geunine Stories of Real Chicago People + A Stellar Talent + Capturing the essence of Chicago             The Ice Palace (Peter Owen Modern Classics) (Peter Owen modern classics)6 reviews Tarjei Vesaas Peter Owen Ltd, 2002 Absolutely beautiful + A sad but great tale about adolescent life in wintercold Norway + Elegant, completely at ease with words + Austere, Primeval, and Haunting + True art!             Levitation: Five Fictions3 reviews Cynthia Ozick E.P. Dutton/Obelisk, 1983 Meet Ruth Puttermesser + OZICK AT HER BEST This book, a collection of five stories, introduces us to Ruth Puttermesser, the overly-intellectual, overly-contemplative heroine of Cynthia Ozick's most recent novel, "The Puttermesser Papers." In the first story, Puttermesser is a down-and-out NYC lawyer hauled from firm to firm without much ...             Had I A Hundred Mouths: New & Selected Stories, 1947-19832 reviews William Goyen, Reginald Gibbons Persea Books, 1986 Goyen's stories are like spirits that haunt you... + A sampling of a genius's finest work This is a collection of stories that seem to seethe from the imagination of a writer of astounding power. Some are interwoven... some just reach out and ensnare you with their seductiveness. None are for the faint of heart. Joyce Carol Oates wrote a five-page introduction for this book - and even ...             The Stories of J.F. Powers (New York Review Books Classics)4 reviews J.F. Powers NYRB Classics, 2000 Great stories by an American original + Thirty stories gathered from three volumes: mid 1940s-70s + America's greatest writer These wonderful stories mine the whole of American life, but Powers was at his best when he wrote about the very narrow slice of life that confines, constricts and defines the lives of Catholic priests. The comedy inherent in parish and church politics, the worldliness of men who have supposedly ...             Virginie: Her Two Lives3 reviews John Hawkes Carroll & Graf, 1993 I Return There + ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES Needless to say which of the two reviewers (as I currently post) I tend to agree with. Apart from anything else this book has my favourite-of-all-time definition of love: "Innocence is the clarity with which the self shows forth the self. Love is the respect we feel for innocence."             William Maxwell: Early Novels and Stories2 reviews William Maxwell Library of America, 2008 A valued and very strongly recommended addition + One of Our Great Writers, Collected The late William Maxwell (1908-2000) served for forty years as an editor at 'The New Yorker' magazine. An Illinois-boarn realist whose literary works provided his readers with 'windows' into small-town midwestern family life of the 1910 and 1920s, Maxwell's own mastery of American prose style was ...             Men of Maize: The Modernist Epic of the Guatemalan Indians (Pittsburgh Editions of Latin American Literature)4 reviews Miguel Angel Asturias University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995 A book every being should read... + A Brochure for Guatemala + The book is a excelent review of investigation about "Men of + The mirror of Guatemala             Mulata de Tal Miguel Angel ASTURIAS Losada, 1963             epitaph of a small winner machado de asis noonday press, 1952 "...a startlingly orignal story. Any reader with a taste for fine writing will find himself here in the presence of a masterly mind who has something to say and says it in a most striking way." -Saturday Review             Already Dead: A California Gothic38 reviews Denis Johnson Harper Perennial, 1998 Worth the effort + Insightful Noir + A lotta book I read this book for the first time ages ago, during the year that my book THE YEAR OF YES takes place. My male roommate (and sometime crush) threw it at me and yelled "Oh My God! It's The Best Book I've Ever Read!" This made me both suspicious and intrigued. Zay often loves books I ...             State of Grace3 reviews Joy Williams Vintage, 1990 ONE MILLION STARS + Lost Classic + Innovative and Great I picked up this book quite by accident, having been recommended to another Williams, or, perhaps, another Joy. Frustrated, I glanced at the first page, and, finding it not repellent, read a bit more. The next thing I knew, I was immersed in something extraordinary and rare. It's amazing--and ...             The Quest Pío Baroja BiblioBazaar, 2006 TRANSLATED By ISAAC GOLDBERG             Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy (American Literature Series)1 review William Eastlake Dalkey Archive Press, 1996 One Stand-out Novel and Two Lesser Ones This is a collection (denominated a "trilogy") of three short novels by William Eastlake -- GO IN BEAUTY (originally published in 1956), THE BRONC PEOPLE (1958), and PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST WITH TWENTY-SIX HORSES (1963). According to a note at the beginning of this volume, the collection was ...             The Sleepwalkers10 reviews Hermann Broch Vintage, 1996 The Absolute Novel? + A complex novel worth study and thought + A historical fact about this book.... + Trilogy of the Disintergration of Values             Dancing After Hours: Stories10 reviews Andre Dubus Knopf, 1996 THIS IS YOUR LIFE + Short Story Rebirth + Not a master, but a master artisan After finishing this collection of stories I am asking myself just how good was it? The hype on the back of the book compares Dubus to Chekhov, Carver, and Flannery O'Connor. It might be that good. As you're reading the stories, most of which are about spiritual crises, or the equivalent, you begin ...             Love in Vain: Selected Stories2 reviews Federigo Tozzi New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2001 An Essential Compilation of Tozzi Stories When I heard that this was coming out a couple of years ago, I was thrilled to hear that an edition of Tozzi's stories was finally being produced in English translation. And having just received it, I am not disappointed. Minna Proctor does a phenomenal job with her translations, making them both ...             U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America)26 reviews John Dos Passos Library of America, 1996 Post WWI, Literary Modernism, and History in American Society + Voices From The Shadows + A great American novel + In The Springtime of Dos Passos