Published in 1925, Ernest Hemingway's collection of short stories focuses on alienation, grief, separation, and loss. Nick, his semi-autobiographical character, appears in multiple stories throughout and is used to explore themes of male comradery, early love, and marriage problems. Known as Hemingway's most experimental book, In Our Time is considered one of Hemingway's early masterpieces.

"Broken Crystals is the amazing story of Yoel and his shocking real-life circumstances. Loosely autobiographical, the narration centers on the smart, inquisitive and decisive Yoel, a seemingly average Joe, whose hunger for knowledge and comprehension of the meaning of life makes him quite peculiar; and sends him swerving here and there into some dangerous paths, clashing with family, friends and strangers alike. Gripping from beginning to end, you're...

Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth, rebels against his family, education, and country by committing himself to the artist's lifestyle.

"The reportorial relentlessness of [David] Vann's imagination often makes his fiction seem less written than chiseled. A small, lovely book has been written out of his large and evident pain. "-New York Times Book Review In Legend of a Suicide, his heartbreaking semi-autobiographical debut story-collection, David Vann relates the story of a young man trying to come to terms with the guilt and pain of his father's suicide. The wild outback of the author's...

"I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness. "So begins Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating tale about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories,...