Stewart O Nan: 43 books

Now a major motion picture from Warner Independent starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale In Stewart O'Nan's Snow Angels, Arthur Parkinson is fourteen during the dreary winter of 1974. Enduring the pain of his parents' divorce, his world is shattered when his beloved former babysitter, Annie,...

New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year “A new masterpiece of American literature.” —Dennis Lehane, Entertainment Weekly “A Prayer for the Dying reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy. It’s twisted proof that God will...

A ghost story that begins in everyday tragedy, from a distinctly American master of both forms: a "scary, sad, funny . . . mesmerizing read" (Stephen King) At Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into...

A death-row inmate gives her confession—a hair-raising tale of sex, drugs and murder across Oklahoma—in this “vividly realized” novel (The New York Times Book Review). Marjorie Standiford has quite a story to tell. And on the eve of her execution for a sensational murder spree, she’s...

In the new novel from the author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself, a middle-age couple goes all in for love at a Niagara Falls casino Stewart O'Nan's thirteenth novel is another wildly original, bittersweet gem like his celebrated Last Night at the Lobster. Valentine's weekend, Art and Marion...

Award-winning writer Stewart O'Nan has been acclaimed by critics as one of the most accomplished novelists writing today. Now comes his finest and most complete novel to date. A year after the death of her husband, Henry, Emily Maxwell gathers her family by Lake Chautauqua in western New York for what...

From a writer who reveals 'the plainness of everyday life with straightforward lyricism' (The New York Times Book Review), the story of one remarkable, average woman. On a clear winter night in upstate New York, two young men break in to a house they believe is empty. It isn't, and within minutes...

A major novel by the award-winning author named by Granta as one of America's best young writers. Set at a remote beachfront cottage in the Hamptons one summer during the Second World War, A World Away follows the fortunes of the Langer family, whose oldest son, Rennie, is missing in action in the...

Jerusalem, 1947: Der Zweite Weltkrieg ist vorbei, die Staatsgründung Israels steht unmittelbar bevor. Jossi Brand hat nichts mehr zu verlieren: Seine gesamte Familie, lettische Juden, wurde in Riga von den Deutschen ermordet. Er beschließt, Mitglied der zionistischen Untergrundorganisation Hagana...

"Ein grandioser Generationenroman." (Die Zeit) "Man ist nach wenigen Seiten von der Stadt und ihren Personen vollkommen absorbiert und möchte sie so schnell nicht mehr verlassen – buchstäblich bis zum bitteren Ende." (Neue Zürcher Zeitung) "Stewart O'Nan erweist sich...

Sie wollen Monster sein – in einem als Spukhaus von der Kirche hergerichteten Gebäude. Monster wie in dem Horrorfilm "Der Schrecken vom Amazonas", nur die Kostüme fehlen noch: Anzüge mit einem langen Reißverschluss hinten und einer Kopfbedeckung, die wie ein Taucherhelm aussieht. Mark...

Der 6. Juli 1944 verhieß für die Bewohner der Stadt Hartfort in Connecticut vergnüglich zu werden. Stattdessen endet er in einer Katastrophe: 167 Menschen sterben in den Flammen des größten Zirkusbrandes der amerikanischen Geschichte. Fesselnd und einfühlsam verfolgt Stewart O'Nan die Schicksale...

Pittsburgh 1998: Der junge Chris "Crest" Tolbert ist beim Graffitisprühen gefallen und sitzt seitdem im Rollstuhl. Sein Freund Bean ist tot. Die Mutter seines Kindes ist ihm fremd geworden. Sein Bruder hat nach einer Knast-Karriere Gott gefunden. Sein Vater hat sich verliebt. Seine Mutter...

The acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism—the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. It was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus performance, when...