The Brotherhood of the Grape
by John Fante | 
The Groves of Academe
by Mary McCarthy | 
Full of Life
by John Fante | 
West of Rome
by John Fante | 
The Messiah of Stockholm
by Cynthia Ozick | 
Mrs. Ted Bliss
by Stanley Elkin | 
Roger's Version
by John Updike | 
Running Dog
by Don DeLillo | 
Reinhart's Women
by Thomas Berger | 
Bech Is Back
by John Updike | 
An American Dream
by Norman Mailer | 
The Web and the Rock
by Thomas Wolfe | 
The Disenchanted
by Budd Schulberg | 
The Tunnel
by William H. Gass | 
A Rage to Live
by John O'Hara | 
Whores for Gloria
by William T. Vollmann | 
Set This House on Fire
by William Styron | 
Of the Farm
by John Updike | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo |
Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, under pressure from his father to go into the family business, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfill his own dreams.