Troy Slater knew it couldn't last forever - the beloved wife and children in the Cape Cod home, and the beloved crazy young girl friend in the Cincinnati bedroom. But it was worth a try. And for two years it lasted beautifully. Then one summer things...
In this Second Edition of The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, master teachers and writers R.V. Cassill and Joyce Carol Oates have refreshed and updated the acclaimed original volume, celebrating not only the enduring literary genre but a...
Widely recognized as R. V. Cassill's masterpiece, CLEM ANDERSON is the story of an author whose astonishing talents are outmatched only by his capacity for self-destruction. Arrogant, untrustworthy, moody, and narcissistic, Clem is also a brilliant a...
A brilliant, bewitching novel inspired by one of the twentieth century’s most infamous sex scandals Michael Cobb is a skilled osteopath, a gifted painter, and a lover extraordinaire. In 1960s England, the good doctor makes a startling diagnosis: th...
A masterful, multifaceted story collection from one of American literature’s most influential writers and teachers As a creative writing teacher whose students included Raymond Carver, Joy Williams, and Andre Dubus, and as longtime editor of The No...
A masterful, multifaceted story collection from one of American literature’s most influential writers and teachers As a creative writing teacher whose students included Raymond Carver, Joy Williams, and Andre Dubus, and as longtime editor of Th...
Beautifully rendered and psychologically astute tales of life, family, and art from a true American master The Sunday Painter, a surprisingly comic tale, is the account of an amateur artist whose obsession with distilling his work to its most bas...
A “jolting, disturbing” novel from “a writer of the first rank,” about a midcentury housewife’s secret sexual drives (The New York Times).
Beautiful, intelligent, and charming, Leslie Daniels is the wife of a successful I...
"Lodora Island - a hellhole in the Pacific, teeming with soldiers eager to turn a handful of nurses into a million dollar business ""She had a million-dollar body - and no mind of her own."Cassill wrote about 15 "paperback originals" in the 1950s and...