The Invention of Solitude
by Paul Auster | 
The Victim
by Saul Bellow | 
Moon Palace
by Paul Auster | 
Operation Shylock
by Philip Roth | 
Leviathan
by Paul Auster | 
The Recognitions
by William Gaddis | 
Dangling Man
by Saul Bellow | 
Rabbit Redux
by John Updike | 
Mr. Vertigo
by Paul Auster | 
The Names
by Don DeLillo | 
I Married a Communist
by Philip Roth | 
Sabbath's Theater
by Philip Roth | 
Giles Goat-Boy
by John Barth | 
Man in the Dark
by Paul Auster | 
The Public Burning
by Robert Coover | 
Wittgenstein's Mistress
by David Markson | 
I Know This Much Is True
by Wally Lamb | 
When I Found You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith | 
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen |
In a Pennsylvania meadow, a young fireman and an angry gambler are forced to build a wall of fifteenth-century stone. For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pusuit of "a life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single turn of a card." In Paul Auster's world of fiendish bargains and punitive whims, where chance is a shifting and powerful force, there is redemption, nonetheless, in Nashe's resolute quest for justice and his capacity for love.