Then and Now
by W. Somerset Maugham | 
Kleinzeit
by Russell Hoban | 
Free Fall
by William Golding | 
Dalva
by Jim Harrison | 
Birdy
by William Wharton | 
Reader's Block
by David Markson | 
A Landing on the Sun
by Michael Frayn | 
The New Confessions
by William Boyd | 
Providence
by Anita Brookner | 
American Appetites
by Joyce Carol Oates |
I Want it Now
by Kingsley Amis | 
The Carpetbaggers
by Harold Robbins | 
The Public Image
by Muriel Spark | 
Imaginary Friends
by Alison Lurie | 
Theophilus North
by Thornton Wilder | 
Pride
by William Wharton | 
Franky Furbo
by William Wharton | 
Last Lovers
by William Wharton | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo |
John Tremont, a middle-aged man with a family, is summoned to his mother's bedside after she has suffered a heart attack. When he arrives, he finds her shaken but surviving; it is his father, left alone, who is unable to cope, who begins to fail, to slip away from life. Joined by his nineteen-year-old son, John suddenly becomes enmeshed in the frightening, consuming, endless minutiae of caring for a beloved, dying parent. He also finds himself inescapably confronting his own middle age, jammed between his son's feckless impatience to get on with his life and his father's heartbreaking willingness to let go. A story of the love that binds generations, Dad celebrates the universe of possibilities within every individual life.