Carol Greene: 3 books

buttons is a quiet novel that uses deceptively simple language to draw the reader into the heart and mind of its young protagonist. we experience only what she experiences through her five senses and vivid imagination and so live in her skin over the course of three seamless days as she strives to...

She lay on her stomach sorting through her buttons. The sun coming through her little window lost itself in her dark hair. The empty coffee can she used for her buttons sat next to her elbow. She took off her glasses and rested her chin on her fist as she spread the pile out to one button deep. She...

Chilling works of literary noir: “Hopler has tracked down a remarkable number of hit-man stories by a remarkable collection of authors.” —New York Press   This unique collection of writings about hired killers includes stories, screenplays, and even poems—plus an appendix listing hit-man...