From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune) comes a comic novel about a divorced Midwestern dad who takes a cutting-edge medical test and learns that he has a predisposition to murder.In this fresh take on love and trouble in America, Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday-school teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by the results of a predictive blood test. Baxter, a master storyteller, bring...

"There’s something I want you to do.” This request—sometimes simple, sometimes not—forms the basis for the ten interrelated short stories that comprise this latest penetrating and prophetic collection from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune).As we follow a diverse group of Minnesota citizens, each grappling with their own heightened fears, responsibilities, and obsessions, Baxter unveils the r...

***A NEW YORK TIMES 2021 NOTABLE BOOK*A timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn to and unmoored by a local activist group more dangerous than it appears—from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune).**Once a promising actor, Tim Brettigan has gone missing. His father thinks he may have seen him among some homeless people. And though she knows he left on purpose, his mother has been searching for ...

National Book Award Finalist • A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people, from "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) and the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award"A near perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom." —The Washington PostThe Feast of Love is just that—a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that mos...

Meravigliosi personaggi, grandi e piccole storie d'amore e di sofferenza, intrecciate in un continuo oscillare avanti e indietro nel tempo. Un gioco di specchi che ha la capacità di moltiplicare la luce. È Bradley, insieme al suo cane Bradley ad aprire il gioco del racconto, un gioco che coinvolge vicini di casa, amici, mariti e mogli, ex mogli, giovani amanti, sullo sfondo di un quartiere tranquillo, di una caffetteria imprigionata in un centro commerciale e in definitiva di una luminosa ...

Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed, and the secreted. Using an array of examples from Melville and Dos...

A New York Times Notable Book from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune)By turns compassionate, gently humorous, and haunting, this collection—sixteen classics with seven new stories—proves William Maxwell’s assertion that “nobody can touch Charles Baxter in the field that he has carved out for himself.”Whether friends or strangers, the characters in the...

Premio Llibreter 2002«Magnífico. Un libro casi perfecto, tan profundo como amplio en su humanidad, humor y sabiduría.» The Washington Post«En toda relación hay al menos un día realmente bueno», afirma uno de los protagonistas de esta novela que disecciona esa poderosa fuerza que mueve nuestras vidas: el amor. En ella varios personajes le cuentan al narrador sus experiencias más íntimas. Conoceremos a Bradley, quien rememora un día perfecto ...

Un romanzo visionario e un viaggio nel cuore dei nostri tempi, ambientato in un'America fatta di grandi centri commerciali e di grandi ossessioni, guidata da un Presidente folle e spregiudicato. È in questo vuoto luminoso che Tim Brettigan, giovane attore promettente, si è perso. Suo padre crede di averlo visto in mezzo a un gruppo di senzatetto. Sua madre, nonostante sappia che se n'è andato di proposito, ha continuato a cercalo ovunque. E mentre perlustra la città, s'imbatte in un gruppo...

Un architetto romantico e senza speranza che vede la propria vita stravolta durante una passeggiata sul Mississippi, un droghiere innamorato dell'Otello di Shakespeare, un pediatra che sogna Hitchcock, un cane che non smette di abbaiare, il passeggero di un transatlantico che legge dal libro dei salmi durante una turbolenza. Una raccolta di racconti collegati e intrecciati fra loro, un coro a più voci che canta le relazioni e i sentimenti di tutti noi.Uscita in USA nel marzo di quest'anno,...

Searching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House.Charles Baxter’s new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the House and The Art of Subtext. In the mold of those books, Baxter shares years of wisdom and reflection on what makes fiction work, including essays that were first given as craft talks at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.The es...

From the collection Gryphon, Charles Baxter’s luminous story of caretaking under any circumstance.Burrage never thought he’d be the responsible one. When his brother and sister-in-law die in a car accident, he becomes caretaker to his young nephew, a fragile boy who wants to know what the future will be. Burrage begins writing the boy’s horoscope—stars, trains, and hide-and-seek—until his predictions begin to fail, in a rowboat, in the middle of a lake.Charles Baxt...