Author: J.G. Farrell
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Keywords: books, classics, review, york, new, troubles
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2002-10-31
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1590170180
ISBN-13: 9781590170182

Major Brendan Archer returns from the Great War to claim his fiancee, whose family owns the Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough, Ireland. She is strangely altered, however, along with the hotel, which is in spectacular decline — cats roam its upper stories, the Palm Court is a jungle, and the last guests are little old ladies with nowhere else to go. Outside the formerly grand hotel, the British Empire also totters. There is unrest in the East, and Ireland itself senses the mounting violence of its "troubles." J.G. Farrell is the author of The Siege of Krishnapur, winner of the Booker Prize. "Remar

Author: Oakley Hall
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Keywords: books, classics, review, york, new, warlock
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2005-11-21
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1590171616
ISBN-13: 9781590171615

A twisted pulp epic, in which the fantasy world of the Western is revealed as the perverse unconscious of American life, Oakley Hall’s Warlock is one of the most unusual and remarkable inspirations of recent American literature. It is the story of Clay Blaisedell, a celebrity sharpshooter who is called in to impose order in the godforsaken desert town of Warlock, where cattle rustlers rule and Apaches loom. But the more power Blaisedell is given to set things straight, the more things go wrong. Insane General Peach, Washington’s emissary to the region, rampages through it; mine owners

Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Keywords: york, review, books, classics, new, maurier, selected, stories, daphne, don
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-10-28
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1590172884
ISBN-13: 9781590172889

An NYRB OriginalDaphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life—love, grief, jealousy—into the stuff of nightmares. Less known, though no less powerful, are her short stories, in which she gave free rein to her imagination in narratives of unflagging suspense.Patrick McGrath’s revelatory new selection of du Maurier’s stories shows her at her most chilling and most psychologically astute: a dead child reappears in the alleyways of Ven

Author: Elaine Dundy
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Keywords: books, classics, review, york, man, new, old
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-06-16
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1590173171
ISBN-13: 9781590173176

In The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy revealed the life of the young expatriate in Paris in all its hilarious and heartbreaking drama. With The Old Man and Me, written when Dundy was living in England in the early 1960s, she tackles the American girl in London, a bit older but certainly no wiser. Honey Flood (if that’s her real name) arrives in London with only her quick wits and a scheme. To get what she wants, she’ll have to seduce the city’s brightest literary star, no matter how many would-be bohemians she has to charm, how many smoky jazz clubs she has to brave, or how many Lady S

Author: Yuri Olesha
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Keywords: books, classics, review, york, new, envy
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 2004-05-31
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1590170865
ISBN-13: 9781590170861

Yuri Olesha’s novella combines social satire, effervescent humor, and a wild visionary streak in the story of a Soviet Babbitt, a hero of industry who presides over an unheard-of increase in the production of sausage. But beside this man with the unshakable self-regard is the bitter sponger who, consumed with resentment, sees through him.

Author: Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Keywords: books, classics, review, york, owl, new, day
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2003-09-30
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 159017061X
ISBN-13: 9781590170618

A dark-suited man is shot dead as he runs for a bus in the piazza of a small town. The investigating officer suspects the mafia, and soon finds himself up against a wall of silence and vested interests. As he uncovers a chain of nasty crimes, bystanders and watchers, complicit with secret power, gossip among themselves. Their furtive conversations have only one end: to stop the truth from coming out.

Authors:Glenway Wescott, David Leavitt,
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Keywords: books, classics, review, york, athens, new, apartment
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1590170814
ISBN-13: 9781590170816

Like Wescott’s extraordinary novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag described in The New Yorker as belonging "among the treasures of 20th-century American literature"), Apartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion—an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity.