SELECTED WORKS

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story collections
One Way or Another (1986)
The author's first book, a collection of stories.
Far-flung (1991)
A second collection of stories published in 1991.
The Half You Don't Know: Selected Stories (1997)
A collection of stories selected from ONE WAY OR ANOTHER and FAR-FLUNG. Page includes a complete list of published stories, 1982 to the present.
novels
Leap Year (1990)
The author's second book and first novel, written as serial novel for 7 DAYS magazine in 1988.
The Weekend (1994)
The author's second novel, published in 1994.
Andorra (1997)
The author's third novel, published in 1997.
The City of Your Final Destination (2002)
The author's fourth novel, published in May 2002.
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You (2007)
A new novel published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in September 2007.

Andorra

After a devastating personal tragedy, a man leaves the United States to begin his life abroad. The country in which he finds himself is inordinately influenced by his imagination, and the events there are eerily reminiscent of his past, especially when he begins to fall in love with two women simultaneously.

Andorra is a small country, populated (almost exclusively) by the ancient Mrs. Reinhardt, who outlives her lifetime lease on the penthouse of the Hotel Exelsior; the Dents, an Australian couple who share a first name, a huge dog, and a secret; Sophonsobia Quay, the kayaking matriarch of the powerful Quay family; her two beautiful but troubled daughters; Esmeralda St. Pitt, who runs a boardinghouse for those with impeccable moral credentials; Ali, the fatalistic purvyor of coffee; and Alexander Fox, who finds himself not only in a foreign country but also in a crisis of faith, conscience, and identity.

A sinisterly beautiful novel about deciet, desire, and the persistence of memory, ANDORRA is a dazzling leap of the imagination.

Published in 1997 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and the following year in paperback by Plume; now available in paperback from Picador.

ANDORRA is being made into a film produced by Ovie from a screenplay written by Cameron.

Read the first chapter of ANDORRA.