Ballantine Reader's Circle Reader

Fiction excerpts from eighteen acclaimed authors whose works appeared as Ballantine Reader's Circle titles in 1999; with a personal introduction to each author from their editor on what delights them about their authors' fiction.The all-true travels and adventures of Lidie Newton / Jane Smiley;The mirror / Lynn Freed;Children of God / Mary Doria Russell;Saints and villains / Denise Giardina;A patchwork planet / Anne Tyler;The umbrella country / Bino A. Realuyo;A widow for one year / John Irving;The hunger moon / Suzanne Matson;In dark water / Mermer Blakeslee;Black glass : short fictions / Karen Joy Fowler;What we keep / Elizabeth Berg;Gone for good / Mark Childress;The edge of heaven / Marita Golden;Hanna's daughters / Marianne Fredriksson;By the light of my father's smile / Alice Walker;Final vinyl days : stories / Jill McCorkle;Mistler's exit / Louis Begley;Cruel as the grave / Sharon Kay Penman.