The Bushwacked Piano (25 page)

by Raymond Carver

The summation of a triumphant career from “one of the great short story writers of our time—of any time” (
Philadelphia Inquirer
).

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The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros

Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence—the story of a young girl growing up in the Latino quarter of Chicago.

“Cisneros is one of the most brilliant of today’s young writers. Her work is sensitive, alert, nuanceful … rich with music and picture.”

—Gwendolyn Brooks

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Wildlife

by Richard Ford

Set in Great Falls, Montana, a powerful novel of a family tested to the breaking point.

“Ford brings the early Hemingway to mind. Not many writers can survive the comparison. Ford can.
Wildlife
has a look of permanence about it.”

—
Newsweek

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The Chosen Place, the Timeless People

by Paule Marshall

A novel set on a devastated part of a Caribbean island, whose tense relationships—between natives and foreigners, blacks and whites, haves and have-nots—keenly dramatize the vicissitudes of power.

“Unforgettable … monumental.”

—
Washington Post Book World

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Bright Lights, Big City

by Jay McInerney

Living in Manhattan as if he owned it, a young man tries to outstrip the approach of dawn with nothing but his wit, good will, and controlled substances.

“A dazzling debut, smart, heartfelt, and very, very funny.”

—Tobias Wolff

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Friend of My Youth

by Alice Munro

Ten miraculously accomplished stories that not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of human experience.

“She is our Chekhov, and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries.”

—Cynthia Ozick

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Mama Day

by Gloria Naylor

This magical tale of a Georgia sea island centers around a powerful and loving matriarch who can call up lightning storms and see secrets in her dreams.

“This is a wonderful novel, full of spirit and sass and wisdom.” —
Washington Post

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Anywhere But Here

by Mona Simpson

An extraordinary novel that is at once a portrait of a mother and daughter and a brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to keep moving.

“Mona Simpson takes on—and reinvents—many of America’s essential myths … stunning.”

—
The New York Times

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The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan

“Vivid … wondrous … what it is to be American, and a woman, mother, daughter, lover, wife, sister and friend—these are the troubling, loving alliances and affiliations that Tan molds into this remarkable novel.”

—
San Francisco Chronicle

“A jewel of a book.”

—
The New York Times Book Review

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