Cary Fagan: 6 books

The stories in History Lessons, Cary Fagan's first collection of fiction, reveal the dreams and deceptions that people live by. These works have a vivid sense of place and detail as they trace the inner lives of characters. Among them: an immigrant child strives to keep her world together; an old...

Twelve tales of North Americans in Paris and the south of France that are by turns witty, sensual, moving, and surprising. Contains The Little Black Dress, Son and Father, I Love Mozart, The Boy Who Read A Simple Heart, A Melancholy Bride, Domesticity, Woodenheads, Are They Really Cézanne's Apples?,...

In the summer of 1979, 21-year-old Felix Roth arrives in Manhattan, sent by the Roth family to look after his older brother who is threatening to disappear into a Hasidic sect. But Felix has a plan of his own - to meet the great Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and show him his one finished short...

Sheila Hersh is spending her early thirties leading a double life. She hangs out at the cool Firenze Bar at night, has a closetful of black clothes, and is even the reluctant star of an underground film. By day she writes ad copy for her father's store, Hersh's House of Mattresses (where she is instructed...

Leon Stone is a man with a criminal past who finds his life blessed with good fortune — a wife he feels passion for, a daughter, a safe neighbourhood. But his world becomes threatened when he finds himself drawn to Vasily, a philosophic, self-declared failed immigrant. Leon's past is slowly revealed...

In the late 1930s, a young boy named Josef is given shelter in the house of a Jewish Doctor in Warsaw. Entranced by the doctor's teenaged daughter, Josef lives a charmed existence there — until the arrival of a cousin from America disrupts all their lives. A novel in miniature, The Doctor's House is at once realistic and magical.