The Apple
by Michel Faber | 
Some Rain Must Fall
by Michel Faber | 
The Fahrenheit Twins
by Michel Faber | 
Epiphany
by Ferrol Sams | 
I Cannot Get You Close Enough
by Ellen Gilchrist | 
The Heart is Deceitful Above all Things
by J. T. LeRoy | 
The Tokyo-Montana Express
by Richard Brautigan | 
Stone Arabia
by Dana Spiotta | 
The Song Reader
by Lisa Tucker |
Local Girls
by Alice Hoffman | 
Another Marvelous Thing
by Laurie Colwin | 
Trailerpark
by Russell Banks |
The Reservoir Tapes
by Jon McGregor | 
The Wishbones
by Tom Perrotta | 
Mary and O'Neil
by Justin Cronin | 
Kafka Americana
by Jonathan Lethem | 
Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You
by Fred Chappell | 
A Severed Wasp
by Madeleine L'Engle | 
Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace |
With his elegant prose and perceptive imagination, the bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White creates a unique, self-contained world, where the perennial human drama plays out in all its passion and ambiguity. In these acclaimed novellas, Michel Faber takes on the interior world of inventively crafted characters. "The Courage Consort" tells of an a capella vocal ensemble sequestered in a Belgian chateau to rehearse a monstrously complicated new piece. But competing artistic temperaments and sexual needs create as much discordance as the avant-garde music. In "The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps," a lonely woman joins an archaeological dig at Whitby Abbey and unearths a mystery involving a long-hidden murder. In "The Fahrenheit Twins," strange children, identical in all but gender and left alone at the icy zenith of the world by their anthropologist parents, create their own ritual civilization.