Fiction excerpts from eighteen acclaimed authors whose works appeared as Ballantine Reader's Circle titles in 1999; with a personal introduction to each author from their editor on what delights them about their authors' fiction.
The all-true travels and adventures of Lidie Newton / Jane Smiley;
The mirror / Lynn Freed;
Children of God / Mary Doria Russell;
Saints and villains / Denise Giardina;
A patchwork planet / Anne Tyler;
The umbrella country / Bino A. Realuyo;
A widow for one year / John Irving;
The hunger moon / Suzanne Matson;
In dark water / Mermer Blakeslee;
Black glass : short fictions / Karen Joy Fowler;
What we keep / Elizabeth Berg;
Gone for good / Mark Childress;
The edge of heaven / Marita Golden;
Hanna's daughters / Marianne Fredriksson;
By the light of my father's smile / Alice Walker;
Final vinyl days : stories / Jill McCorkle;
Mistler's exit / Louis Begley;
Cruel as the grave / Sharon Kay Penman.
Ballantine Reader's Circle Reader
ISBN: 0345435443
ISBN 13: 9780345435446
Pages: 183
Authors: Jane Smiley, Mark Childress, Elizabeth Berg, Mermer Blakeslee, Karen Joy Fowler, Marita Golden, Marianne Fredriksson, Alice Walker, Jill McCorkle, Louis Begley, Sharon Kay Penman, Lynn Freed, Mary Doria Russell, Denise Giardina, Anne Tyler, Bino A. Realuyo, John Irving, Suzanne Matson
