Orison Books: 3 books
Miss Portland
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
After years of medicated struggle, 34-year-old Zoe quits her office job and moves into a trailer with her boyfriend in rural Maine against her family’s wishes and her doctor’s advice. After all, she has big plans with Gordy, a goateed vegetarian with thoughtful eyes and a job at a yoga studio...
You or a Loved One
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
In his debut story collection,* You or a Loved One*, recipient of The 2017 Orison Fiction Prize, selected by David Haynes, Gabriel Houck ushers readers into the hidden worlds of working-class people and their families, delivering their stories in raw, unflinching prose. An unhappy switchboard operator...
The Divine Magnet
Herman Melville's Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
If you don't know Melville's letters to Hawthorne, you don't know Melville. These letters are full of passion, humor, doubt, and spiritual yearning, and offer an intimate view of Melville's personality. Lyrical and effusive, they are literary works in themselves. This correspondence has been out of...