In the Beauty of the Lilies
by John Updike | 
Lancelot
by Walker Percy | 
Bullet Park
by John Cheever | 
Point Omega
by Don DeLillo | 
The Orchard Keeper
by Cormac McCarthy | 
October Light
by John Gardner | 
Bleeding Edge
by Thomas Pynchon | 
Crazy Cock
by Henry Miller | 
BUtterfield 8
by John O'Hara | 
S.
by John Updike | 
Sombrero Fallout
by Richard Brautigan | 
More Die of Heartbreak
by Saul Bellow | 
Love in the Ruins
by Walker Percy | 
Travels in the Scriptorium
by Paul Auster | 
The Dean's December
by Saul Bellow | 
The Garden of Eden
by Ernest Hemingway | 
Against The Grain
by Joris-Karl Huysmans | 
The Pilgrim Hawk
by Glenway Wescott | 
Quartet
by Jean Rhys | 
The Temptation of St. Anthony
by Gustave Flaubert |
"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story-part shocking reality, part feverish dream -of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a young French girl. There is the seen and the unseen-and pages that burn with a rare intensity.