Bonnie Jo Campbell

Margo Crane, a beauty and uncanny markswoman takes to the Stark River after being complicit in the death of her father and embarks on an odyssey in search of her vanished mother in this novel from the National Book Award finalist. 30,000 first printing.

A Novel

Once Upon a River

Presents a collection of stories that feature rural and working-class characters trying to cope with life in post-industrial America.

Stories

American Salvage

Waters

From the National Book Award finalist and author of Once Upon a River comes a dazzling story collection featuring ferocious mothers and scrappy daughters.

Mothers, Tell Your Daughters

Combining the modern-farm-life realities of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres with the quirky humor and eccentric characters of Carolyn Chute's The Beans of Egypt, Maine, Q Road is a charming debut from Bonnie Jo Campbell. Greenland Township, Michigan: On the same acres where farmers once displaced Potawatomi Indians, suburban developers now supplant farmers and prefab homes spring up in last year's cornfields. All along Q Road—or “Queer Road,” as the locals call it—the old, rural life collides weirdly with the new. With a cast of lovingly rendered eccentrics and a powerful sense of place, Q Road is a lively tale of nature and human desire that alters the landscape of contemporary fiction.

Q Road

Madres, avisad a vuestras hijas

A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Selection A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the soul of a small town. On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp—an area known as “The Waters” to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan—herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest—the beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose Thorn—has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey” Zook, to grow up wild. Donkey spends her days searching for truths in the lush landscape and in her math books, waiting for her wayward mother and longing for a father, unaware that family secrets, passionate love, and violent men will flood through the swamp and upend her idyllic childhood. Rage simmers below the surface of this divided community, and those on both sides of the divide have closed their doors against the enemy. The only bridge across the waters is Rose Thorn. With a “ruthless and precise eye for the details of the physical world” (Jane Smiley, New York Times Book Review), Bonnie Jo Campbell presents an elegant antidote to the dark side of masculinity, celebrating the resilience of nature and the brutality and sweetness of rural life.

The Waters: A Novel

Cat Warren

Beth Kephart

Diane Lefer

Carol Guess

Sybil Baker

Ethel Rohan

Kim Chinquee

Kathleen Rooney

Tama Janowitz

Kathi Appelt

Sherrie Flick

Victoria Redel

Robin Black

Deb Olin Unferth

Kathy Fish

Molly Gaudry

Debra Di Blasi

Xu Xi

Ellen Meister

Jennifer Steil

Amina Gautier

Jo-Ann Mapson

Elaine Chiew

Tara Laskowski

Kristine Ong Muslim

Natasha Saje

Roberta Allen

Susanna Sonnenberg

Pamela Painter

Jillian Sullivan

Nancy Stohlman

Liza Gardner Walsh

Tara Campbell

Patricia McConnell

Lisa Kastner

Ellen Boscov

Kristin Burcham

Sara Chansarkar

Mare Chapman

Watsuki Harrington

Tara Masih

Robin OIivera

Alina Pleskova

Zalisa Rabin

Trisha Rodriguez

C. J. Spataro

Wendy Stetson

Chelsea Stickle

Julia Strayer

Girija Tripp

Fifty-two writers responded in exactly 100 words to the fine art photography of Meg Boscov to create an anthology of healing visions.

An Anthology of Micro Writing and Fine Art Photography

Healing Visions

Margo Crane, a beauty and uncanny markswoman takes to the Stark River after being complicit in the death of her father and embarks on an odyssey in search of her vanished mother in this novel from the National Book Award finalist. Reprint.

An anthology of stories on human relationships. The story, Eating Aunt Victoria, traces the relationship of teenagers and their mother's lesbian lover, while in Bringing Home the Bones an accident in which a woman loses a leg improves her relations with her children.

Women & Other Animals

A first novel from a fierce new talent, this chronicle of small-town life combines Jane Smiley's insights into rural realities with the offbeat humor of Carolyn Chute. In this passionate novel she digs deep to reveal the strangeness of ferocious women, confused men, and hungry children.

Larry Smith

In this new collection about contemporary people facing the post-industrial age and the work of their lives we have stories about carpenters, painters, waitresses, nurses, teachers, plumbers, social workers, ushers, factory and cannery workers, car salesmen, hardware sellers, chicken butchers, junk dealers, miners, lifeguards, out-of-workers. It makes us realize how some truths must be spoken as stories. This is a strong collection appropriate for a general audience and for college readers.

Short Stories of People and Work

Our Working Lives

“Bonnie Jo Campbell is a master of rural America’s postindustrial landscape.” —Boston Globe Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once vulnerable, wise, cruel, and funny. The strong but flawed women of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters must negotiate a sexually charged atmosphere as they love, honor, and betray one another against the backdrop of all the men in their world. Such richly fraught mother-daughter relationships can be lifelines, anchors, or they can sink a woman like a stone. In "My Dog Roscoe," a new bride becomes obsessed with the notion that her dead ex-boyfriend has returned to her in the form of a mongrel. In "Blood Work, 1999," a phlebotomist's desire to give away everything to the needy awakens her own sensuality. In "Home to Die," an abused woman takes revenge on her bedridden husband. In these fearless and darkly funny tales about women and those they love, Campbell’s spirited American voice is at its most powerful.

Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories

“A demonstration of outstanding skills on the river of American literature.” —Entertainment Weekly "Bonnie Jo Campbell has built her new novel like a modern-day craftsman from the old timbers of our national myths about loners living off the land, rugged tales as perilous as they are alluring. Without sacrificing any of its originality, this story comes bearing the saw marks of classic American literature, the rough-hewn sister of The Leatherstocking Tales, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Walden.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post

Once Upon a River: A Novel

Dave Eggers

John McNally

Neil Gaiman

Margaret Atwood

Kelly Link

Charles Yu

Joe Hill

Audrey Niffenegger

Ramsey Campbell

David Morrell

Robert McCammon

Alice Hoffman

Harlan Ellison

Dan Chaon

Sam Weller

Mort Castle

Joe Meno

Lee Martin

Julia Keller

Jay Bonansinga

Gary Braunbeck

Thomas F. Monteleone

John Maclay

Bayo Ojikutu

Jacqelyn Mitchard

Antológiánk ​lapjain korunk angolszász spekulatív irodalmának legnagyobb alakjai tisztelegnek a közelmúltban elhunyt Mester előtt történeteikkel, melyek hol felemelőek, hol borongósak, hol szentimentálisak, hol hátborzongatóak, de valamennyi új és új kaland a képzelet határtalan birodalmában. NEIL GAIMAN (Sandman; Amerikai istenek) • MARGARET ATWOOD (Guvat és Gazella; A szolgálólány meséje) • JAY BONANSINGA (Száguldás a halálba; Agyrém) • SAM WELLER • DAVID MORRELL (Rambo; Settenkedők) • THOMAS F. MONTELEONE • LEE MARTIN • JOE HILL (A szív alakú doboz; Szarvak) • DAN CHAON • JOHN MCNALLY • JOE MENO • ROBERT MCCAMMON (Csak az enyém) • RAMSEY CAMPBELL • MORT CASTLE • ALICE HOFFMAN (Hetedik mennyország; Átkozott boszorkák) • JOHN MACLAY • JACQUELYN MITCHARD (Az óceán mélye) • GARY BRAUNBECK • BONNIE JO CAMPBELL • AUDREY NIFFENEGGER (Az időutazó felesége) • CHARLES YU • JULIA KELLER • DAVE EGGERS (Ahol a vadak várnak; Az árvízi csónakos) • BAYO OJIKUTU • KELLY LINK (Különb dolgok is) • HARLAN ELLISON

Ray Bradbury emlékére

Árnyak ​és rémek

Chad Harbach

Anjali Joseph

Lily Tuck

Will Wiles

Nicci Cloke

Evan Mandery

Sam Thompson

Darran McCann

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Margo Crane ha quindici anni e vive da sola con il padre lungo le rive del fiume Stark, nelle foreste rigogliose del Michigan. È bellissima, ma non lo sa. Lei vuole soltanto spellare conigli con le sue mani, imbracciare il fucile e sparare con una mira impeccabile, trascorrere giornate intere alla deriva sul fiume, a osservare le tartarughe d'acqua, a pescare o contare gli aironi in volo. È una bambina selvaggia che vuole attraversare la vita come un fiume la terra, scivolando lievemente, senza paura. Non sa che la grazia dei suoi gesti, l'incanto del suo volto sono attentamente scrutati da occhi avidi, turbati, stravolti dalla smania di possesso. Il giorno successivo al Ringraziamento, durante la festa nella grande fattoria di zia Joanna e zio Cal, i parenti ricchi che hanno ereditato la Murray Metalli, la fabbrica che scarica ogni giorno nel fiume un miscuglio di scolo, olio e solventi, accade l'irreparabile. Zio Cal, l'uomo più attraente dell'ostinata e cocciuta tribù dei Murray, la convince a seguirlo nel capanno dipinto di bianco, la afferra tra le braccia, la stende sul pavimento di terra battuta, le mormora qualcosa a proposito della sua «sacrilega», «spaventosa» bellezza... e la prende. L'esito di questo gesto è scontato lì, tra le foreste del Michigan: una drammatica resa dei conti che aggiunge lutti a lutti. Sola, in una terra dove alla bellezza della natura non corrisponde la virtù degli uomini, a Margo non resta che affidarsi al fiume e alla vecchia barca del nonno. Parte così per un avventuroso viaggio lungo lo Stark, un viaggio alla ricerca della madre che l'ha abbandonata anni prima e alla ricerca di se stessa. Un viaggio tra pericoli inauditi, la violenza della natura e quella degli uomini accecati dallo splendore della ragazza. Un viaggio in cui Margo compie il suo itinerario: cessa di essere una bambina selvaggia in balia del mondo, la bellezza che tutti vogliono usare e possedere, e diventa una donna grazie anche all'amicizia con lo scontroso, solitario Smoke, troppo vecchio per rappresentare una minaccia e troppo saggio per non insegnarle che al mondo si può e si deve cedere anche alla dolcezza.

C'era una volta un fiume

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