Best of
American-Fiction

2005

The Killings of Stanley Ketchel


James Carlos Blake - 2005
    The Killings of Stanley Ketchel is a sweeping and powerful literary adventure by one of our most daring novelists.

My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973


Harry Mathews - 2005
    Even friends had their suspicions, which were only reinforced each time he tried to deny such a connection. With growing frustration at his inability to make anyone believe him, Mathews decided to act the part." "My Life in the CIA documents Mathews's experiences as a would-be spy during 1973, where amid charged world events - the coup in Chile, Watergate, the ending of the Vietnam War - he found himself engaged in a game that took sinister twists as various foreign agencies decided he was a presence that should be eliminated." Harry Mathews has turned these strange events into a thriller where the line between fact and fiction gets relentlessly blurred.

My Friend the Enemy


J.B. Cheaney - 2005
    She scours the skies above Mount Hood with her binoculars, hoping to make some crucial observation, or uncover the hideout of enemy spies. But what she discovers instead is a 15-year-old orphan, hiding out, trying to avoid being sent to an internment camp. Sogoji was born in America. He’s eager to help Hazel with the war effort. Is this lonely boy really the enemy?In this thought-provoking story of patriotism, loyalty, and belonging, Hazel must decide what it means to be a true American, and a true friend.

Triumph of the Egg


Sherwood Anderson - 2005
    A collection of short stories by Sherwood Anderson