Reprints two dark novels from 1990 and 1991.

She could read the darkest novel while rain poured outside and still not lose hope or humor.

It is a dark novel, dealing with subjects like death.

Reprints two dark novels from 1993 and 1994.

Set against the weirdness of new Russian wealth, this dark novel might just about sneak past the post despite its literary failings - but it's unlikely.

It should be seen, according to Smith, as a "very funny, very dark novel" and a "combination of hope, hopelessness and callousness."

But it is a remarkably dark novel, with a beleaguered, despised race of goblins at its heart.

Three essentially separate story lines, with morbidly alienated main characters, link up at the end of Chaon's unremittingly dark and provocative novel.

She suggested a connection to the 11 September attacks, as the later, darker novels were written after that event.