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Uju is a daughter her mother never wanted. When she meets Gozie in 1978, he seems like the perfect man -- charismatic, Christian and Igbo -- so she agrees to marry him in the hope of attaining her mother's approval. Gozie reminds her of her...

Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, is under suspicion by his superiors and soon on the run from enemies through Germany.

Partially written before his death, author David Foster Wallace presents a fictitious version of himself as the protagonist in his final novel. When Wallace arrives for training at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois,...

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores...

Audacious. Wildly ambitious. Prolific. All describe William T. Vollmann, author of the seven- volume nonfiction work Rising Upand Rising Downand the ÂSeven Dreams sequence of novels, which the Chicago Tribunehailed as Âlikely to become one of the...