Laird Hunt

• Sep-2001
• / Suspense
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When a hit man takes a sabbatical to focus on love, his bosses aren’t happy in an award-winning debut novel that earns comparison to Paul Auster and Kafka. When the anonymous narrator botches an assignment from the clandestine organization that e...

• Sep-2003
• / Literary
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A mesmerizing, poignant saga of love and loss firmly grounded in the Midwestern landscape by National Book Award finalist Laird Hunt.On a dark and lovely winter night, Noah Summers sits before a roaring fire, drifting between sleep and recollection, ...

• Sep-2006
• / Literary
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A “strange, original, and utterly brilliant” tale of longing, madness, death, and psychological gamesmanship in the wake of 9/11 (Paul Auster). Henry, a New Yorker left destitute by circumstance and obsession, is plucked from vagrancy by a shad...

• Sep-2009
• / General Fiction
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Two lost souls searching for meaning in this moving, dreamlike novel of from “one of the most talented young writers on the American scene today” (Paul Auster). Determined to find his place in the world, Harry ventures to a vibrant European cit...

• Dec-2010
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. Available again for the first time in a decade, Laird Hunt's stories, mock parables and false histories posit a Paris pushed none-too-gently through its own gilt-framed looking glass, turning both ends of the telescope on the old men, barber...

• Sep-2012
• / Literary
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A “profoundly imaginative, strikingly original, deeply moving” antebellum tale of two slave girls who take their white mistress into captivity (Kirkus Reviews). In “a novel that upends what we expect from slavery narratives,” teenage Ginny ...

• Sep-2014
• / Historical
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She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. NEVERHOME tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the S...

• Feb-2017
• / Historical
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Two women, two directions: one dark, extraordinary day. Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw, a startling, challenging beauty in small-town Indiana. Quick of mind, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of 1930 an odys...

• Oct-2018
• / Historical
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The eerie, disturbing story of one of our perennial fascinations--witchcraft in colonial America--wrapped up in a lyrical novel of psychological suspense. "Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods." ...

• Feb-2021
• / Women's Fiction
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Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction)
"A virtuosic portrait." �"New York Times Book Review
"A tender, glowing novel." �"Anthony Doerr, Guardian, "Best Books of the Year"
"Pages that are polis...

• Sep-2021
• / Horror
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A chilling collection of classic weird and supernatural tales from the dark heart of American literatureA masquerade ball cut short by a mysterious plague; a strange nocturnal ritual in the woods; a black bobcat howling in the night: these ten tales ...

• Feb-2024
• / General Fiction
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Laird Hunt's masterful story collection capturing one summer's day in the Indiana community where the beloved National Book Award Finalist Zorrie bloomed.

Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his...