Date of Disappearance: Assorted Stories by M. Allen Cunningham Coming soon in a special signed and numbered limited edition gorgeously illustrated by Nathan Shields. (To be sold exclusively by independent bookstores.) Lost Son by M. Allen Cunningham A novel based on the life and work of the great Rainer Maria Rilke, author of “Letters to a Young Poet” and “Duino Elegies.” How wonderful to open a novel by an author you do not know, and to feel gradually, in joy and astonishment, the magic of Rilke reach out from every page. Lost Son is at once a subtle and signal imaginative achievement, putting readers on notice: an extraordinary talent has come upon the scene.—Ihab Hassan 
(Read about the famous poet and how Cunningham came to write Lost Son.) The Green Age of Asher Witherow by M. Allen Cunningham Cunningham's debut novel appeared in 2004 and was selected by booksellers nationwide as a #1 Book Sense Pick. A gothic coming-of-age tale, it is set during the boom and bust years of an immigrant coal-mining town in nineteenth-century California. Displays a mastery that is surprising in a novelistic debut.—Booklist |    |
