Justin Cronin
Born and raised in New England, Justin Cronin is a graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Awards for his fiction include the Stephen Crane Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He is a professor of English at Rice University and lives with his wife and children in Houston, Texas.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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Lisa Gardner
It totally blew me away. Part thriller, part post-apocalyptic fantasy, it’s an 800-page epic already being compared to Stephen King’s The Stand. The little girl in it still haunts me.
The Stories of John Cheever
A book that changed my life. I was amazed by the beauty of the language. I never knew a sentence could do that.
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The Passage (3)
““It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.””
First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunri…
Mary and O'Neil: A Novel in Stories (0)
Mary and O’Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they’d come to teach, each had suffered a profound loss that had not healed. How likely was it that they could learn to trust, much less love…
The Summer Guest (0)
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for his radiant novel in stories, Mary and O’Neil, Justin Cronin has already been hailed as a writer of astonishing gifts. Now Cronin’s new novel, The Summer Guest, fulfills that promise—and more. With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical grace, Cronin …
