News from the World
Stories & Essays
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A collection that traces the celebrated career of a grande dame of contemporary literature.
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“Paula Fox is one of our greatest writers. Her prose is a model of ruthless, gorgeous efficiency and her mind is so unnervingly alert to the messy contradictions that come with being human. These essays and stories will delight and inspire anyone who cares about literature, storytelling, and truth itself.” — Tom Bissell, author of Extra Lives
“Paula Fox's essays and short stories all display a spare, marvelous luminosity. The author's irreducible voice—it was the same with Virginia Woolf—can always be heard, whatever the genre.” — Thomas Mallon, author of Fellow Travelers
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Desperate Characters
Paperback, 2015
"A towering landmark of postwar Realism. . . . A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved." — David Foster Wallace
The God of Nightmares
Paperback, 2002
"Vividly rendered...haunting....[Paula Fox] writes with silken ease and a sensitivity to nuance."—Newsday
A Servant's Tale: A Novel
Paperback, 2001
"A rare and wondrous thing....[Fox] knows how to create a character."—Vogue
The Western Coast: A Novel
Paperback, 2001
America and the catastrophic world of twentieth-century war, mass murder, and horror are the backdrop of this story of Annie Gianfala, a young woman who finds herself cast adrift in Hollywood with...
Poor George: A Novel
Paperback, 2001
"The best first novel I've read in quite a long time…A merciless uncovering of the exurban wastelands of the spirit." —New York Review of Books