The Thanatos Syndrome
by Walker Percy | 
The Wapshot Chronicle
by John Cheever | 
The Mezzanine
by Nicholson Baker | 
The Broom of the System
by David Foster Wallace | 
Postcards
by Annie Proulx | 
Something Happened
by Joseph Heller | 
The Water-Method Man
by John Irving | 
Chimera
by John Barth | 
The Fourth Hand
by John Irving | 
Love in the Ruins
by Walker Percy | 
Closing Time
by Joseph Heller | 
Pfitz
by Andrew Crumey | 
The Second Coming
by Walker Percy | 
Travels in the Scriptorium
by Paul Auster | 
The 158-Pound Marriage
by John Irving | 
The Night Life of the Gods
by Thorne Smith | 
Once on a Time
by A. A. Milne | 
Topper
by Thorne Smith | 
Bech at Bay
by John Updike | 
Bech Is Back
by John Updike |
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick'??and through the even darker fantasies of the town'??s collective psyche. From the Trade Paperback edition.