Summer Crossing

Truman Capote

Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.   Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously pursuing an...

Leaving the Yellow House (Mini Modern Classics)

Saul Bellow

She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an elderly and self-destructive dipsomaniac in a Western desert town, who finds herself faced with a final, impos...