In eight unforgettable stories, five of which previously appeared in The New Yorker, a son confronts his father's madness during a camping trip, two drifters share a ghostly vision of a young girl lost in an Iowa cornfield, a young writer battles for his sanity in a hospital psych ward, and more. By the author of The Point. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

In eight unforgettable stories, five of which previously appeared in The New Yorker, a son confronts his father's madness during a camping trip, two drifters share a ghostly vision of a young girl lost in an Iowa cornfield, a young writer battles for his sanity in a hospital psych ward, and more. By the author of The Point. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: These eleven essays span continents, culture, and class. Fiction writer and essayist Charles D'Ambrosio inspects manufactured homes in Washington state; tours the rooms of Hell House, a Pentecostal "haunted house" in Texas; visits the dormitories and hallways of a Russian orphanage in Svrstroy; and explored the textual space of family letters, at once expansive and claustrophobic...read more

A selection of essays from Tin House magazine explores a range diverse subjects, in works by Jeffrey Eugenides on living above a Nazi bunker in Berlin, Jo Ann Beard's account of the life and death of one of Jack Kevorkian's patients, and others by Russell Banks and Czeslaw Milosz. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Eight stories by the 1993 winner of The Paris Review's Aga Khan Fiction prize are set in the Pacific Northwest, the deep South, New York, and Los Angeles, and follow themes of loss, grief, and devotion. 15,000 first printing. Tour.