One part celebration, one part history, two parts manifesto, Bernard DeVoto’s The Hour is a comic and unequivocal treatise on how and why we drink—properly. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner turns his shrewd wit on the spirits and attitudes that cause his stomach to turn and his eyes to roll.
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“The Hour is not simply a piece of humorous cultural patriotism. . . It is a manual of witchcraft, a book of spells and observances.”
—Wallace Stegner

Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique, forty-year relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. With haunting, lyrical prose, Marlene van Niekerk creates a story about love and loyalty.
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“I was immediately mesmerized . . . Its beauty matches its depth and her achievement is as brilliant as it is haunting.”
—Toni Morrison

An exquisite blend of memoir and nature writing, River House is a young woman's story about returning home. Living her dream, riding and cleaning the arteries of the world, led her back to the place she least expected—her dusty beginnings and her family's ranch.
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“River House is about rediscovering family and working through the compromises involved in finding your life, the people and days you actually love. It’s tough, smart and eloquently told, a dead on beauty.”
—William Kittredge, author of Hole in the Sky

A chance encounter between two writers, Tom Grimes and Frank Conroy, develops into a wonderful friendship neither expected. Exquisitely written, Mentor is an honest and heartbreaking exploration of the writing life and the role of a very important teacher.
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“One of the truest accounts of a writer's life—of two writers' lives—I've yet seen. A poignant and beautiful book.”
—T. C. Boyle