Stewart O'Nan

Perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall, the Red Lobster hasn't been making its numbers, and headquarters has pulled the plug....

A sequel to the best-selling, much-beloved Wish You Were Here, Stewart O'Nan's intimate new novel follows Emily Maxwell, a widow whose grown children have long moved away....

A member of the greatest generation looks back on the loves and losses of his past and comes to treasure the present anew in this poignant and thoughtful new novel from a modern master....

Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball....

One of America's most acclaimed novelists turns to nonfiction in this account of the great Hartford circus fire, which took the lives of 167 people and forever changed the city and its people....

Early in 2004, two writers and Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, decided to chronicle the upcoming season, one of the most hotly anticipated in baseball history....

In this posthumously published collection of his essays and reviews, acclaimed novelist John Gardner discusses the craft of fiction writing, taking to task some of his best-known contemporaries in the process....

A sympathetic and deeply personal portrait of a flawed man who never gave up, even as his every wish and hope seemed thwarted....

In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the buildup to and fallout from the murder....

It was the summer of her Chevette, of J.P. and letting her hair grow. It was also the summer when popular high school student Kim Larsen disappeared from her small midwestern town....

Arthur Parkinson is 14 during the dreary winter of 1974, experiencing the confusing pangs of adolescence and the pain of his parents' divorce....

El viudo Dean Evers se pasa las tardes frente al televisor viendo un partido de béisbol tras otro. Un día empieza a reconocer rostros de personas de su pasado entre las gradas....

Valentine's weekend, Art and Marion Fowler flee their Cleveland suburb for Niagara Falls, desperate to recoup their losses.....

In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees set out for Palestine by the tens of thousands. Those who made it were hunted as illegals by the British mandatory authorities there....

Depuis la mort de sa femme, Dean Evers trompe l'ennui de ses vieux jours devant les matchs de baseball à la télévision...

The writing team that delivered the best-selling Faithful takes the readers to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond....