Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series) | The National Book Award-winning novel–and contemporary classic–that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor
“[A] shrewd and lyrical
Helen Walsh | Brass | Not since Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting has an ambitious first novel created such a stir among readers of important new voices in fiction. Since its re
Christa Winsloe | The Child Manuela | Winsloe’s 1929 novel became the movie ‘Maedchen In Uniform.’ The story revolves around a young girl who is sent to a repressive Prussian boarding scho
Honore de Balzac | Seraphita (Dedalus European Classics) | Balzac begins with a travelogue of the fiords of Norway, concentrating ultimately on one valley that is isolated by the roaring waters of the Sieg Riv
Erin Quinn O’Briant | Glitter Girl | Meet the Soren sisters. Gloria, 29, is a way-out San Francisco lesbian who won and lost an international journalism award only to reinvent herself as
Anthony Thorne | Delay in the Sun | ‘… Delay in the Sun tells the story of a few days in the lives of a set of ill-assorted English tourists who find themselves unexpectedly stranded i
Norbert Estey | All My Sins | Ninon de Lenclos was taught by her dashing father to fully savor the sensual pleasures of love. Young, impressionable and in the first blush of her aw
Barbara Browning | The Gift | The Gift by Barbara Browning is a strange novel in a lot of ways. The overall feeling it inspires is one of quiet intimacywhich is fitting, given tha
Honore de Balzac | Cousin Bette (Modern Library Classics) | Cousin Bette (1847) vividly brings to life the rift between the old world and the new and is, among other things, a serious study of the Paris demimon
Patricia Nell Warren | Billy’s Boy | For those who know Warren’s previous novels, this is the third in a series. The first, The Front Runner, is about a young gay distance runner who was