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A literary quest reaching from Nazi-occupied Prague to turn-of-the-millennium New York as a young musicologist seeks to solve the mystery behind an eighteenth-century sonata manuscript

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Bradford Morrow is an American novelist, editor, essayist, poet, and children's book writer, and has taught at Princeton, Brown and Columbia universities. Professor of literature and Bard Centre Fellow at Bard College and winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is the founding editor of Conjunctions literary magazine. He lives in New York City.

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The acclaimed author of "The Forgers" takes listeners on a literary quest, traveling from Nazi-occupied Prague to turn-of-the-millennium New York as a young musicologist seeks to solve the mystery behind an 18th-century sonata manuscript.

Walking a lonely forested valley in upstate New York, Cassandra Brooks comes upon the shocking vision of a young girl hanged from a tree. When she returns with authorities, the girl has vanished, leaving in question Cassandras credibility, if not her sanity. The next day, on a return visit, a dazed, mute missing girl emerges from the woods, aliveand the very picture of Cassandras hanged girl. What follows is the narrative of ever deepening and...

Die Gemeinschaft der Bücherliebhaber ist geschockt, als Adam Diehl, ein zurückgezogen lebender Sammler seltener Bücher, ermordet in seinem Haus in Montauk gefunden wird. In den Wochen danach gelingt es seiner Schwester Meghan nur schwer, zur Normalität zurückzukehren. Zum Glück findet sie Unterstützung bei ihrem Freund Will, der selbst Sammler ist, aber auch ein gewiefter Fälscher von Autographen - Spezialität: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Und als ...

A brilliant allegory that traces the life of a young woman whose sanity teeters on the edge as she tries to hold together her troubled family. Since childhood, Grace Brush has suffered episodic migraines. With them come hallucinatory visions, which reveal buried memories, leading her inexorably on the path to discovering secrets that could send her family's business empire into ruin. As Grace grows into adulthood, her quest for personal freedo...

In rural upstate New York, a disturbing vision of a hanged girl leads diviner Cassandra Brooks and her family into peril, and conjures ghosts from her own haunted childhood. At once a journey of self-discovery and an unorthodox murder mystery, this is a tale of the fantastic and a family chronicle told by an extraordinary woman.

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From critically acclaimed novelist Bradford Morrow comes a richly told literary thriller about the dark side of the rare book world. The bibliophile community is stunned when a reclusive rare book collector is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and manuscripts that have been vandalized beyond repair. In the weeks following the victim's death, his sister, Meghan, and her lover-a sometim...

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From the critically acclaimed author Bradford Morrow, a literary quest novel that travels from Nazi-occupied Prague to turn-of-the-millennium New York as a young musicologist seeks to solve the mystery behind an eighteenth-century sonata manuscript

When Cassandra's dark forebodings take on tangible form, she is forced to confront a life spiraling out of control. And soon she is locked in a mortal chess match with a real-life killer who has haunted her since before she can remember.

When Cassandra's dark forebodings take on tangible form, she is forced to confront a life spiraling out of control. And soon she is locked in a mortal chess match with a real-life killer who has haunted her since before she can remember.

Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents, Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a family history of heart attacks and decimation by the ...

This book brings together twenty-seven essays written over a period of more than forty years by the man one of his publishers called 'an American cultural monument.