Bryson’s acute eye is a wise witness to this beautiful but fragile trail, and as he tells its fascinating history, he makes a moving plea for the conservation of America’s last great wilderness.
Upon a return trip to Colorado, Patterson stops to go fishing with an old acquaintance—only to find him in a meth-induced delirium and keeping a woman tied up in the bathtub.
Two cousins exchange letters between rural Mexico and the United States, discovering both differences and familiar pleasures in the details of daily life.
Denis Johnson’s now-classic story collection Jesus’ Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompasses every extreme of American culture.
Loosely based on the author’s own life in the town of Knockemstiff, Ohio, the linked stories portray a community riven by violence, drug addiction, and sexual abuse.
Two ageing Texas Rangers drive cattle toward Montana, crossing a vast frontier where friendship must endure distance, danger and the loneliness of travel.
Villaseñor follows his parents' families from revolutionary Mexico into California, where displacement, hardship and love carry memories across the border.
In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like—to get to the roots of the American nature and experience.
Esperanza observes her Chicago neighbourhood through brief, poetic vignettes, imagining a future while learning how home can both sustain and constrain her.
Featuring what is widely considered one of the most memorable opening lines in crime fiction, The Last Good Kiss takes readers on an alcohol-soaked, viscerally violent ride from the dark depths of San Francisco’s underbelly to what James Crumley referred to as
Bill Bryson, chronicling his 14,000-mile (22,495-km) trip around the United States in the autumn of 1987 and spring 1988 in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set.
