It is a novel of dazzling intricacy, absorbing suspense, and the highest ambition: to redeem the great claim of paranoia on the American psyche....
Beginning in childbirth and entered like a multiple dwelling in motion, Women and Men embraces and anatomizes the 1970s in New York - from experiments in the chaotic relations between the sexes to the flux of the city itself. Yet through an intricate...
Joseph McElroy brings to life a startling story of loss in 'The Letter Left To Me.' Written by a father to his son almost three years before the father's death, the letter in question is discovered a few days after the funeral. Powerful and moving wh...
In the middle of an otherwise nondescript play in a "twelve-dollar-a-seat" downtown warehouse theater, an actress is staggered by a violent slap in he face from her co-star. As she gazes into the audience with a bloody nose, immediately a connection ...
David Brook, a young professor, tries to combine the experiences of his mother, son, wife, father, and friends into a novel capturing the essence of his life, in a new edition of the first novel by the award-winning author of
Best known for his complex and beautiful novels -- regularly compared to those of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo -- Joseph McElroy is equally at home in the short story, having written numerous pieces over the course of his career th...
Preparations for Search was a section removed from the classic Women and Men that stands alone as a great short work of fiction....
"Since 1966, McElroy's novels have astonished and delighted by their brilliant wit, intelligence, and style." -- Washington Post Book World"McElroy is rightly compared with Gaddis and Pynchon." -- Harper's MagazineThe Iraq War, two platform divers, a...
An uninvited guest, entering the empty New York apartment of a man known to intimates as "Dom," proceeds to write for his absent host a curious confession. Its close accounts of friendship since boyhood with two men surely unknown to Dom and certa...
A long-ago kidnaping case all but abandoned resurfaces, yet its memory of lives put aside almost screens itself with a population of new life. Neighborhoods of New York, of Brooklyn Heights, a larger uncertain and disturbing America of the 1960s, thi...