Knopf Pantheon Summer 2013

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Knopf
Pantheon
Summer 2013
Publicity Assignments for Knopf and Pantheon Summer 2013
Paul Bogaards pbogaards@randomhouse.com
and Elizabeth Lindsey elindsay@randomhouse.com
THE REDEEMER / Jo Nesbø
Gabrielle Brooks gbrooks@randomhouse.com
and Erica Hinsley ehinsley@randomhouse.com
THE REALM OF LAST CHANCES / Steve Yarbrough
REVOLUTIONARY SUMMER / Joseph J. Ellis
CLAIRE OF THE SEA LIGHT / Edwidge Danticat
A TRECHEROUS PARADISE/Henning Mankell
Kathy Zuckerman kzuckerman@randomhouse.com
and Brittany Morrongiello
bmorrongiello@randomhouse.com
STUDIO SAINT-EX / Ania Szado
QUEEN ANNE / Anne Somerset
ELEVEN DAYS / Lea Carpenter
INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEAT WAVE / Maggie
O’Farrell
Lena Khidritskaya
lkhidritskaya@randomhouse.com
A MARKER TO MEASURE DRIFT / Alexander Maksik
CORRESPONDENCES / Anne Michaels
THE MADONNA ON THE MOON / Rolf Bauerdick
THE DEVIL’S CAVE / Martin Walker
Poetry:
MOON WOKE ME UP NINE TIMES/David Young
F/Franz Wright
Erica Hinsley ehinsley@randomhouse.com
GOING HOME AGAIN / Dennis Bock
Michiko Clark miclark@randomhouse.com
1001 NIGHTS/ Hanan al-Shaykh
AMS/TRAINS AND LOVERS/AMS
THE PURCHASE/ Linda Spalding
Erinn Hartman ehartman@randomhouse.com
Josie Kals jkals@randomhouse.com
BOOTSTRAPPER / Mardi Jo Link
CALCUTTA / Amit Chaudhuri
THE INNOCENCE GAME / Michael Harvey
BAD MONKEY/Carl Hiaasen
STAY, ILLUSION/ Simon Critchley
NEVER FUCK UP/ Jens Lapidus
BAD BLOOD/ Arne Dahl
THE HAPPY ATHEIST/ PZ Myers
Michelle Somers msomers@randomhouse.com
GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO / Lucy Hughes-Hallett
THE CANCER CHRONICLES/George Johnson
THE INFATUATIONS / Javier Marias
Kim Thornton kthornton@randomhouse.com
AMERICANAH / Chimamanda Adichie
GETTYSBURG / Allen Guelzo
PARIS WAS THE PLACE / Susan Conley
THE HOMECOMING / Carsten Stroud
Sara Eagle seagle@randomhouse.com
AMOR AND PSYCHE / Carolyn Cooke
THE ENGAGEMENT / J. Courtney Sullivan
THE SWEET GIRL / Annabel Lyon
Trains and Lovers
A Novel
Alexander McCall Smith
A wonderful new stand-alone novel from the internationally beloved and
best-selling Alexander McCall Smith: a story that explores the nature of love--and
trains--through a series of intertwined romantic tales.
The rocking of the train car, the sound of its wheels on the rails...there's something
special about this form of travel that makes for easy conversation. Which is just what
happens to the four strangers who meet in Trains and Lovers. As they travel by rail from
Edinburgh to London, they entertain one another with tales of how trains have changed
their lives. A young, keen-eyed Scotsman recounts how he turned a friendship with a
young female coworker into a romance by spotting an anachronistic train in an
eighteenth century painting. An Australian woman shares how her parents fell in love
and spent their life together running a railroad siding in the remote Australian Outback. A
middle-aged American arts patron sees two young men saying good-bye in the station
and recalls his youthful crush on another man. And a young Englishman describes how
exiting his train at the wrong station allowed him to meet an intriguing woman whom he
impulsively invited to dinner--and into his life. Here is Alexander McCall Smith at his
most enchanting.
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Contemporary Women
BISAC 2: Fiction - Romance - Contemporary
BISAC 3: Fiction - Literary
Page Count: 256
Trim Size: 5 x 7
Spine/Depth: 31/32
Carton Count: 12
STAND-ALONE NOVEL: Sandy's first non-series novel since 2009, this is also his most
romantic book so far, which should appeal to new readers as well as his longtime audience.
SALES: Sandy's titles have sold more than 17 million copies for the Knopf group. There are
37,000 copies in print of the hardcover edition of his last stand-alone novel, La's Orchestra
Saves the World.
AUTHOR PLATFORM: Sandy continues to increase his presence on social media, interacting
directly with readers on Facebook (more than 32,000 likes/fans) and Twitter (more than 8,100
followers).
Praise for Alexander McCall Smith
"McCall Smith's generous writing and dry humor, his gentleness and humanity, and his ability to
evoke a place and a set of characters without caricature or condescension have endeared his
books to readers." --The New York Times
"Alexander McCall Smith writes about the enduring, patient qualities of love." --The Times
(London)
Marketing and Publicity
About the Author/Illustrator
Marketing Contact: Jonathan Lazzara
National Review Attention
National Media Attention, including
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Extra galleys (with color covers)
Also available as an eGalley
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Review and BookPage
Mobile and Online
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Reading Group Guide (available online
at the time of publication)
Jacket Blowups Available
Author Residence: Edinburgh, Scotland
Author Hometown: Zimbabwe/Botswana
ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the international phenomenon The No. 1
Ladies' Detective Agency series, and of the Isabel Dalhousie series, the Portuguese
Irregular Verbs series, the 44 Scotland Street series, and the Corduroy Mansions series.
He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and
has served with many national and international organizations concerned with bioethics.
He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and he was a law professor at the
University of Botswana.
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Agency: DAVID HIGHAM
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One Thousand and One Nights
A Retelling
Hanan al-Shaykh
From one of the world's most acclaimed contemporary Arab writers: a sparkling,
sexy new reimagining of nineteen mesmerizing tales from the beloved
masterpiece.
The original tales of the One Thousand and One Nights were framed as stories told
by the young queen Shahrazad to her murderous husband each night in order to save
her life. Acclaimed Lebanese writer Hanan al-Shaykh has selected nineteen of the
stories that focus primarily on the female characters at each story's heart. She has
translated them into modern English and knitted them together into one cohesive
narrative that is lush and evocative, rich with humor, and utterly captivating.
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Folklore
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Page Count: 320
Trim Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Spine/Depth: 36/32 Carton Count: 12
radio features
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(without author)
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AUTHOR: Hanan al-Shaykh is a crucial figure in Middle Eastern women's literature.
INTRODUCTION: Hanan al-Shaykh is to Arab literature as Mary Gaitskill is to American
literature--passionate and controversial, sharp-eyed and revealing. As such, Gaitskill will
introduce this volume, shaping a conversation about the relevance of these tales for American
women.
FIRST ARAB WOMAN TO TRANSLATE: This edition marks the very first translation of this
classic to be undertaken by an Arab woman. It is fitting, in this case, that a work of literature that
has been considered so scandalous has been reinterpreted and reimagined by an Arab writer
whose books have been, at points, banned in parts of the Middle East for their scandalous
content as well.
THEATRICAL PRODUCTION: This book represents al-Shaykh's stunning original take on the
material--it began with a play she wrote and which was staged in Edinburgh in 2011. Al-Shaykh
is currently adapting the material for a production in London's West End. More info TK.
ANCHOR BACKLIST: al-Shaykh's Anchor backlist was repackaged when her most recent,
widely praised book, The Locust and the Bird, was published in 2009.
U.K. praise for One Thousand and One Nights:
"For grown-ups interested in rediscovering the One Thousand and One Nights in all its bawdy,
violent glory. It is captivating." --Daily Mail
"Al-Shaykh's One Thousand and One Nights is a treasure-box of stories." --The Independent
"Hanan al-Shaykh's vivid 'reimagining' of the One Thousand and One Nights ... is a treat and a
trap for story lovers. Like a contemporary Shahrazad, al-Shaykh has rendered 19 little
masterpieces into a wondrously warm, ribald and hilarious concoction, reminding us of how
bang up to date these stories can be." --Hanif Kureishi, The Guardian
"Magical.... Bursting with jinnis and mischief." --Donna Tartt
Author Residence: London, England
Author Hometown: Beirut, Lebanon
Hanan al-Shaykh, an award-winning journalist, novelist, and playwright, is the author of
the short story collection I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops; the novels The Story of Zahra,
Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues, and Only in London; and a memoir about her
mother, The Locust and the Bird. She was raised in Beirut, educated in Cairo, and lives
in London.
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Never Fuck Up
A Novel
Jens Lapidus
From Sweden's best-selling crime novelist and author of Easy Money comes the
riveting second installment of the Stockholm Noir Trilogy.
With the same raw energy and verve he displayed in Easy Money, Jens Lapidus now
gives us a new, electrifying tale of Stockholm's vicious underworld. Mahmud is fresh out
of jail and heavily in debt to a drug lord. And though his life is spared in a game of
Russian roulette, he's forced to work for a brutal mob boss in order to pay off his debts.
Niklas, a mercenary and weapons expert with an appetite for violence and vigilante
justice, is back in Sweden and plans to keep a low profile. But the discovery of a
murdered man in his mother's building severely threatens those plans. Thomas, the
volatile detective on the case, finding his efforts suspiciously stymied and the evidence
tampered with, goes off the grid in search of the truth. But as the paths of these three
men intertwine and the identity of the murdered man is revealed, crimes and secrets
bigger, deeper, and darker than a mere murder will come to light.
Translated from the Swedish by Astri von Arbin Ahlander.
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Category: Fiction; Mystery
BISAC 1: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
BISAC 2: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
BISAC 3: Fiction - Crime
Page Count: 512
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky
Scandinavian crime round-up features
Possible joint appearances with other
Scandinavian crime novelists
Extra galleys
National Print Advertising, including
The New York Times Book Review and
The Strand
Online Advertising Campaign,
including NYTimes.com
Promotion in the Pantheon Books
enewsletter and to the
KnopfDoubleday.com mystery list
BEST-SELLING TRILOGY: Lapidus's Stockholm Noir Trilogy has sold more than a million
copies internationally. It has been translated into more than 30 languages.
MOVIES: The Swedish film version of Easy Money recently opened in New York and Los
Angeles to positive reviews. Two more Swedish films are in production, and a Hollywood
version of Easy Money is currently under development with Warner Bros.
LITERARY AND CULTURAL CELEBRITY: Lapidus, a defense lawyer for some of Sweden's
most notorious underworld criminals, has an authenticity and hard-boiled style that has drawn
many comparisons to James Ellroy. In 2010, Lapidus was chosen by Cafe, Sweden's leading
men's fashion magazine, as Sweden's best-dressed man.
Praise for Easy Money:
"At last, an epic European thriller to rival the Stieg Larsson books. It's an entirely new criminal
world, beautifully rendered--and a wildly thrilling novel." --James Ellroy
"[A] searing debut." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author Residence: Stockholm, Sweden
JENS LAPIDUS is a criminal defense lawyer who represents some of Sweden's most
notorious underworld criminals. He lives in Stockholm with his wife.
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Stay, Illusion!
The Hamlet Doctrine
Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster
The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the Ghost haunts him. Arguably, no
literary work, not even the Bible, is more familiar to us than Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Everyone knows at least six words from the play; often people know many more.
Yet the play--Shakespeare's longest--is more than "passing strange" and becomes
deeply unfamiliar when considered closely.
Stay, Illusion! is a passionate encounter with the play that affords an original look
at this work of literature and the prismatic quality of the play to project meaning.
Along the way, Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster consider the political
context and stakes of Shakespeare's play, its relation to religion, the movement of
desire, and the incapacity to love.
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SUBJECT: Hamlet is embedded in our psyches, in our culture--analyses, commentaries, and
reenactments only enlarge its impact and influence.
AUTHORS: Critchley's and Webster's different approaches make for an engagement that
encompasses different facets of the play, from the metaphysical to the analytical, the historical
to the feminist.
APPROACH: This book is, quite simply, sui generis.
AUDIENCE: Readers of Marjorie Garber's Shakespeare After All and Stephen Greenblatt's Will
in the World. This book will be of interest to all students and aficionados of Shakespeare.
COMPARISON: Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer
Rage. This book defies facile label or ordinary box.
978-0-307-90761-5
$25.00/$29.95 Can.
Category: LITERATURE; THEATER
BISAC 1: Literary Criticism - Shakespeare
BISAC 2: Performing Arts - Theater - History &
Criticism
BISAC 3: Literary Criticism & Collections - English,
Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Page Count: 288
Trim Size: 5 x 8
Spine/Depth: 34/32
Carton Count: 12
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Author Tour: Boston and New York
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Author Residence: Brooklyn, NY
Author Hometown: Crichley: Liverpool; Webster: Miami
SIMON CRITCHLEY is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for
Social Research. He also teaches at Tilburg University and the European Graduate
School. His many books include Very Little...Almost Nothing, The Faith of the Faithless,
and The Book of Dead Philosophers (Vintage 2009), which made The New York Times
extended bestseller list.. He is series moderator of "The Stone," a philosophy column in
The New York Times, to which he is a frequent contributor. In the fall of 2012 he ran a
"On Thuth and Lies" talk series at BAM. JAMIESON WEBSTER is a psychoanalyst in
private practice in New York City. She is the author of The Life and Death of
Psychoanalysis: On Unconscious Desire and its Sublimation (Karnac, 2011) and has
written for Cabinet Magazine, The New York Times, and many psychoanalytic
publications. She teaches at Eugene Lang College and supervises doctoral students in
clinical psychology at the City University of New York.
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The Happy Atheist
PZ Myers
From the author of one of the web's most popular science blogs, The Happy
Atheist takes on religious fanaticism with all the gleeful disrespect it deserves. A
small, fearless book that takes aim at big, stupid targets--and nails them.
For the last several years, PZ Myers, writing the blog Pharyngula, has entertained
millions of readers every month with his infectious love of evolutionary science and his
equally infectious disdain for creationism, biblical literalism, "intelligent design" theory,
and other products of godly illogic. While PZ does not accept the common atheist
argument that religion necessarily makes people do evil, violent things, he does think
that, most of the time, it makes them believe in the truly ridiculous--which is exactly what
he skewers in this riotously funny book. In fact, The Happy Atheist is so outrageous, it's
the only book about religion anyone should take seriously.
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Category: Religion; Social Science
BISAC 1: Religion - Atheism
BISAC 2: Science - Evolution
BISAC 3: Social Science - Sociology Of Religion
Page Count: 176
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PLATFORM: PZ Myers's blog, Pharyngula, has a tremendous following--three million visits
every month, one million of them unique--and is routinely recognized as one of the best science
blogs on the web. This is a great platform for spreading the word about The Happy Atheist.
AUTHOR: Myers is a biology professor. When creationists start spinning their wheels over
fanciful objections to established science, PZ is exactly the right person to set the record
straight.
FORMAT: Other recent atheist books by the likes of Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett weigh
in at nearly 500 pages and are often as inaccessible as the pro-religion books they oppose. PZ
has written a fun book that is a riot to read.
Author Residence: Morris, MN
PZ MYERS is an associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota, Morris,
and the author of the blog Pharyngula.
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Bad Blood
A Crime Novel
Arne Dahl
In Arne Dahl's riveting follow up to Misterioso, the Intercrime team is tapped to
track down an American serial killer--on the loose in Sweden.
A Swedish literary critic is found tortured to death in a janitor's closet at Newark
Liberty International Airport. When the police realize that the murderer made off with the
victim's ticket to Stockholm, Swedish authorities are alerted immediately--but the killer
eludes the dragnet. When Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm of the Intercrime unit
take over the investigation, they find clues that steer them toward darker waters. The
torture method used was not only a highly specialized form of information extraction--it
allows the victim to whisper, but not scream--but it was also the modus operandi of a
presumably deceased serial killer...
Translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles
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Category: Mystery
BISAC 2: Fiction - Thrillers
BISAC 3: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police
Procedural
Page Count: 384
Trim Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Scandinavian crime round-up features
Possible joint appearances with other
Scandinavian crime novelists
Extra galleys
Also available as eGalley
National Print Advertising in
BookPage and The Strand
Online Advertising on NYTimes.com,
USAToday.com, and Facebook
Online Promotion in the Pantheon
e-newsletter and on
www.pantheonbooks.com and on the
Knopf Doubleday Mystery site
(mystery.knopfdoubleday.com)
Outreach to mystery blogs and sites
GROWTH: Misterioso debuted to great reviews and is steadily gaining an audience. American
readers are attuning to the same qualities--sophisticated plotlines, fascinating complex
characters, unique narrative voice--that has riveted Swedish readers for years.
AWARDS: Dahl's books have sold more than two million copies in Europe and he has garnered
numerous awards across the continent.
ADAPTABILITY: A 10-episode television series adapted from Dahl's Intercrime novels recently
aired in Sweden with great ratings.
Praise for Misterioso:
"Terrific. . . . Full of twists and turns, blind alleys and sudden assaults, procedural hassles and
stakeouts." --The Providence Journal
"Thoughtfully haunting and sometimes beautifully written, the first of Hjelm's cases to be
translated into English is likely to resonate with readers of the Stieg Larsson trilogy." --Austin
American-Statesman
Author Residence: Stockholm, Sweden
Arne Dahl is an award-winning crime novelist and literary critic. He lives in Stockholm.
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The Purchase
A Novel
Linda Spalding
In this hard-edged, starkly beautiful historical novel set in the early 1800s, a
Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where all their
values will be tested by setting up a homestead in the wild and by the moral
dilemma of owning a slave.
In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, recently widowed, shunned by his fellow Quakers when he
marries his young servant girl to help with his five young children, moves his shaken
family down the Wilderness Road to the Virginia/Kentucky border. Although determined
to hold on to his Quaker ways, and despite his most dearly held belief that slavery is a
sin, Daniel soon becomes the owner of a young slave boy named Onesimus, a purchase
that sets off a chain of tragic events. As Daniel's children and young wife grow and
change, those events send each member of the family down a different path and drive
the book to its unexpected conclusion.
Filled with moral complexity, memorable characters drawn with compassion and
depth, and the nitty-gritty details of frontier life, The Purchase is a powerful novel of
sacrifice and redemption, a resonant and timeless work.
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SETTING: An extraordinarily vivid and realistic depiction of life on the Virginia/Kentucky frontier,
with its newly settled land and towns, including how people farmed, built houses, practiced
natural medicine, and also chronicles the rise of a planter society.
GENERATIONAL SAGA: Besides the father, Daniel, there are, among others: the young
servant-girl-become-wife who finds her own path amid the Quaker family and outgrows her
narrow orphanage upbringing in a leap of insight; the slave boy who meets his trials with
superhuman grace; the oldest daughter, Mary, who finds the slave boy and a slave girl--who is a
gifted healer--her best friends in a new land; we follow them all as they grow and change and
marry.
SLAVERY: A deeply compassionate view of the evils of slavery for both blacks and whites.
AUTHOR: Linda Spalding is an American living in Canada. The book is based loosely on her
own family, which should be an interesting publicity angle.
PUBLICITY: McClelland and Stewart is publishing this fall, making it a leading new fiction title.
Spalding is publicizing widely there and will publicize here as well. Advance quotes and early
reviews on the reverse side.
PRIZES: The Purchase has just won Canada's Governor General's Literary Award, and has
been nominated for its Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Author Residence: Toronto, Canada
Author Hometown: Kansas
Linda Spalding was born and raised in Kansas. She is the author of three novels and
two acclaimed works of nonfiction, The Follow, which was short-listed for The Trillium
Book Award and the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize; and, most recently, Who
Named the Knife. She received the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the
Canadian literary community. She lives in Toronto, where she is the editor of Brick
magazine.
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Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times
Selected Haiku of Basho
Matsuo Basho; Translated by David Young
Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for
newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master.
Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet
attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quilts/ snow on
distant mountains/ I watch both," he writes. His work captures both the profound
loneliness of one observing mind and the broad-ranging joy he finds in our connections
to the larger community. David Young, acclaimed translator and Knopf poet, writes in his
introduction to this selection, "This poet's consciousness affiliates itself with crickets,
islands, monkeys, snowfalls, moonscapes, flowers, trees, and ceremonies...Waking and
sleeping, alone and in company, he moves through the world, delighting in its details."
Young's translations are bright, alert, musically perfect, and rich in tenderness toward
their maker.
BASHO: A favorite with audiences, and frequently anthologized and studied. His work is already
well known, but there is ample room for a solid "Selected" in the marketplace.
DAVID YOUNG: The highly praised translator of Petrarch, as well as Du Fu and other Chinese
poets, Young brings his translator's skill and his sensitivity as a poet to this project.
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"David Young's version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West's crucial lyric poet. We
are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who
come after." --Harold Bloom
"Phenomenal. Among a half-dozen publications of poetry which have given [us] the greatest
delight to read." --Vernon Young, Parnassus
Author Residence: Oberlin, OH
David Young has written eleven previous books of poetry, including, most recently,
Black Lab and Field of Light and Shadow: Selected and New Poems. He is a
well-known translator of the Chinese poets as well as the poems of Petrarch and
Eugenio Montale. A past winner of the Guggeheim and NEA Fellowships as well as a
Pushcart Prize, Young is the Longman Professor Emeritus of English and Creative
Writing at Oberlin College and the editor of the Field Poetry Series at Oberlin College
Press.
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Studio Saint-Ex
Ania Szado
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A sleek, stylish novel set in the New York of the 1940s, between the shock of Pearl
Harbor and the landing of American troops in Europe--a deft romantic novel about
a wartime triangle involving a twenty-two-year-old fashion designer poised to
launch her career . . . the French expatriate writer and war pilot, Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry, who's left his Nazi-occupied country and come to Manhattan for a
month, only to stay for two years . . . and his beautiful, estranged Salvadoran wife
determined to win back her husband at all costs--and seductions.
With Paris under occupation by Hitler's troops, New York's Mayor LaGuardia has
vowed to turn his city into the new fashion capital of the world. A handful of American
designers are set to become the industry's brightest names, and Mignonne Lachapelle is
determined to be among them. Her ambition and ethics are clear, until she falls for the
celebrated and tormented adventurer Captain Saint-Exupéry. In New York, he writes a
new book on the fall of France, Flight to Arras (it became a number-one best seller) and
collects (a year late) his 1939 National Book Award for Wind, Sand and Stars (by the
time of his arrival in New York, in early 1941, the book had sold 250,000 copies). To
distract him from his malaise at being in exile, and at his U.S. publisher's offhand
suggestion, he begins work on a new book, an exotic fable . . .
Nothing about Mig's tempestuous, romantic relationship with Saint-Ex is
straightforward. The greatest complication, though, comes in the form of his deceptively
simple manuscript about a petit bonhomme in the Sahara Desert fallen to earth on a
journey across the planets . . .
Studio Saint-Ex will be published to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of Saint-Exupéry's
The Little Prince, a book that has been translated into 250 languages, that continues to sell
more than a million copies per year (100,000 in the U.S. alone), and that has sold to date 200
million copies worldwide.
A $60 million 3D animated feature adaptation of The Little Prince is in the works, produced by
Aton Soumache.
A wholly original novel that seamlessly weaves together fact and fiction and brings to life a
glittering New York City poised to become the fashion capital of the world, as it has become the
outpost for French artists and writers fleeing Hitler's invading armies. The novel's center makes
real the quietly audacious man whose beloved story of a little boy from asteroid B-612 has
touched the heart and soul of millions of readers.
Stacy Schiff's admired biography of Saint-Exupéry ("Superb, spirited, enthralling." --David
McCullough).
Author Residence: Toronto, Ontario
Author Hometown: Hamilton, Ontario
ANIA SZADO graduated from the Ontario College of Art and the University of British
Columbia. Her first novel, Beginning of Was, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth
Writers' Prize. Her writing has appeared in numerous periodicals, including The Globe
and Mail, Flare, and This Magazine. She lives in Toronto.
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Knopf MapGuide: Seoul
Knopf Guides
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From the beloved series, a new guide to Seoul, the capital of South Korea--one of
the world's largest and most dynamic cities, where a passion for modernity meets
tradition from its rich past.
Seoul is a fascinating mix of the ancient and modern, from the skyscrapers and high
fashion boutiques of the glamorous Gangnam district and the neon-lit streets of Itaewon
to the traditional arts market in Insadong and such fifteenth-century royal palaces as
Changdeokgung, a UNESCO world heritage site. Seoul--The World Design Capital in
2010--offers a breathtaking cityscape to its visitors. When sightseeing becomes
overwhelming, visitors can take an afternoon hike among the pine trees on Namsan
(Southern Mountain) with its panoramic view of downtown Seoul, or spend a day
shopping--Apgujeong district is filled with well-known fashion houses as well as hip
boutiques carrying Korean indie designers. Seoul offers both authentic and innovative
fusion food, found everywhere from street carts to world-class restaurants serving
neo-Korean cuisine. Afterward, visitors can head to trendy Hongdae for a taste of
Seoul's lively nightlife.
POPULAR DESTINATION: In 2011, Korea had around 9.8 million foreign tourists; more than 1
million were from the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2012, more than 11
million foreign tourists are expected to visit Korea. Almost 80% of the total tourists to Korea visit
Seoul.
SHOPPING MECCA: According to statistics released by the Korea Tourism Organization, the
top reason that draws foreign tourists is shopping: 66.6% of all visitors come for that reason
while 44.2% come for the food.
BUSINESS CENTER: Considered one of world's top ten financial and commercial centers, it
was ranked fifth worldwide in 2010 as a site for international conferences.
CULTURAL SITE: Seoul is home to four dramatic UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the center
of city or just outside: Changdeokgung, Hwaseong Fortress, Jongmyo Shrine, and the Royal
Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty.
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The Redeemer
Jo Nesbo
A fantastically gripping thriller from the internationally acclaimed author of The
Snowman, The Leopard, and Phantom: antihero police investigator Harry Hole
chases a desperate, faceless contract killer at large in Oslo.
Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on an Oslo street.
Suddenly a musician falls dead, shot at point-blank range. Hole--the police department's
best investigator and worst civil servant--has no suspect, weapon, or motive. But his
troubles have just begun: the assassin, quickly discovering that he shot the wrong man,
becomes frantic in his search for his target. Hole's search is growing equally frantic, and
he finds himself on a chase that leads into the darkest corners of the former Yugoslavia.
But it's when he returns to Oslo that he encounters true darkness: among the homeless,
the junkies, and the Salvationists, eagerly awaiting their savior--whether he brings new
life or immediate death. With its shrewdly vertiginous narrative, acid-etched characters,
and white-hot pace, The Redeemer is resounding proof of Jo Nesbø's standing among
the best crime writers of our time.
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Page Count: 416
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MOMENTUM: We published Nesbø's Phantom in October 2012, and it debuted at #9 on the
New York Times list.
SALES: The Snowman, which launched Nesbø onto Knopf's list, has sold more than 200,000
copies (hardcover, paperback, and eBook). It debuted at #10 on the New York Times list,
remaining on the list for nine straight weeks. The Leopard continues to build Nesbø's fan base
and was released in paperback by Vintage in June 2012.
INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER: Nesbø's books have sold 15 million copies in 47 languages,
and his books regularly go straight to #1 in Europe. Nesbø is the second-best-selling author in
the U.K.: at the height of sales, one of his books sold every 27 seconds.
MOVIES: Film rights to The Snowman were picked up by Working Title Films, with Martin
Scorsese attached to direct. A film based on Nesbø's Headhunters (available in Vintage
paperback) was released in the U.S. in March to wide acclaim.
BACKSTORY: In the chronology, The Redeemer comes just before The Snowman and fills in
some of the Harry Hole backstory that fans have been craving.
Praise for The Redeemer
"The Redeemer rocks! Jo Nesbø is my new favorite thriller writer and Harry Hole my new hero.
This book had my pulse in the red zone from start to finish." --Michael Connelly
"As brilliant as Nesbø's other [novels]...A grimly realistic portrait of the Norwegian capital as well
as an engrossing mystery, full of twists." --Evening Standard (U.K.)
Author Residence: Oslo, Norway
Author Hometown: Norway
JO NESBØ is a musician, songwriter, economist, and author. He has won the Glass Key
Award for best Nordic crime novel. His other Harry Hole novels include The Redbreast,
Nemesis, The Devil's Star, The Snowman, The Leopard, and Phantom, and he is also
the author of Headhunters and several children's books.
Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett.
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Correspondences
A poem and portraits
Anne Michaels and Bernice Eisenstein
A rare and beautifully produced "accordion" book by renowned novelist and poet
Anne Michaels and acclaimed artist and writer Bernice Eisenstein that will cause a
stir for both its form and its content.
Anne Michaels's resonant book-length poem--which unfolds on one side of the pages
of this accordion book--ranges from the universal to the intimate, as she writes of
historical figures for whom language was the closest thing to salvation; on the other side,
we have Bernice Eisenstein's luminous portraits of and quotes from such
twentieth-century writers and thinkers as Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, W. G. Sebald, Anna
Akhmatova, Primo Levi, and Albert Einstein. The poetry and portraits join together in a
dialogue that can be read in any direction and any order, in a format that perfectly
reflects the thematic interconnectedness of this collaboration: "an alphabet of spirits and
spirit; an elegy of remembrance" (Eisenstein); "just as a conversation becomes the third
side of the page . . . the moment one life becomes another" (Michaels).
For Anne Michaels's sizable audience and literary readers/collectors, this onetime produced
format of the shrink-wrapped accordion book will make a perfect gift.
The status and popularity of Anne Michaels as novelist and poet; the added value of Bernice
Eisenstein's internationally acclaimed graphic work.
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Praise for Michaels's Fugitive Pieces:
"Lovely, musical and magical . . . Put this book alongside The English Patient." --Chicago
Tribune
Praise for Poems:
"These are poems that go way beyond games or fashion or politics...They represent the human
being entire." --Michael Ondaatje
Praise for Eisenstein's I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors:
"Remarkable . . . The most lucid, funny, moving book I encountered in 2006." --Molly Peacock,
Globe and Mail Books of the Year
Author Residence: Toronto, Canada
Illustrator Residence: Toronto, Canada
Anne Michaels is the author of the internationally best-selling novel Fugitive Pieces,
winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, the Chapters/Books in Canada First
Novel Award, the Guardian Fiction Award, and the Orange Prize for Fiction, among
many other honors. Fugitive Pieces was made into a major motion picture. Her second
novel, The Winter Vault, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Trillium Book
Award, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and a nominee for the International
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She is also the author of three highly acclaimed poetry
collections. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. Bernice
Eisenstein is the author of the critically acclaimed graphic memoir I Was A Child of
Holocaust Survivors, which was translated into ten languages, and won the Canadian
Jewish Book Award. Eisenstein, whose artwork has appeared in exhibitions in Europe
and the United States, lives in Toronto.
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Revolutionary Summer
The Birth of American Independence
Joseph J. Ellis
From the award-winning, preeminent American historian: a revelatory portrait of a
crescendo moment in American history.
Joseph J. Ellis' focus: the summer of 1776, the most dramatic few months in the story
of our country's founding. The thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede
from the British Empire. At the same time, the British dispatched the largest armada ever
to cross the Atlantic; it cruised off the coast of Staten Island in early July. The
Continental Congress and the Continental Army were forced to make decisions on the
run, improvising as history congealed around them. In a brilliant and seamless narrative,
Ellis weaves the political and military experiences as two sides of a single story, and
shows how events on one front influenced outcomes on the other. Revolutionary
Summer enlivens familiar historical events with a freshness at once revelatory and
compelling.
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Page Count: 240
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SUBJECT: Joe Ellis returns to what he does best--a continuous narrative. His choice: a moment
when the Continental Congress and the Continental Army had to make highly consequential
decisions that would determine the outcomes of events over which they had no control.
OPPORTUNITY: There's no more dramatic moment in the story of our country's founding, and
Ellis has intertwined two aspects of the story--the political and the military--that are customarily
told separately.
AUTHOR: Joe Ellis is one of our preeminent scholars, the winner of both the Pulitzer (Founding
Brothers) and the National Book Award (American Sphinx) in an age when books on the
Founding Fathers proliferate. His mastery of this period is widely acknowledged.
PRAISE FOR FIRST FAMILY: "Written with the grace and style one expects from Ellis--John
Adams could not have a better biographer." --Los Angeles Times
"A remarkably intimate portrait of John and Abigail's marriage as it played out against
the momentous events that marked the birth of a nation." --Michiko Kakutani, The New
York Times
Author Residence: Amherst, MA
Author Hometown: Alexandria, VA
Joseph Ellis is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers. His portrait of
Thomas Jefferson, American Sphinx, won the National Book Award. He recently retired
from his position as the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College
and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife and their youngest son.
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The Innocence Game
Michael Harvey
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense
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Page Count: 256
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
A breakout stand-alone thriller from Michael Harvey, Chicago's best-known crime
writer and the beloved author of the Michael Kelly P.I. series--a brilliant leap
forward.
Michael Harvey's wire-taut thriller begins in an ordinary classroom at Northwestern's
renowned journalism school but quickly spirals into the grittiest corners of Chicago.
Along with only two classmates--beautiful, strong-willed Sarah Gold and enigmatically
brilliant Jake Havens--Ian Joyce has been invited to participate in the innocence
seminar, an exclusive class for top students. The seminar investigates wrongful
convictions and cold cases; the idealistic J-school students are tasked with trying to
exonerate the falsely accused. But on the first day of class, Jake introduces a case of
his own, the long-ago murder of a young boy, ten-year-old Skylar Wingate, last seen
walking home from school, his body discovered three days later in a forest preserve a
mile away. His alleged killer was murdered decades ago in jail. But two chilling clues
delivered to Jake's house, a piece of bloodstained fabric and a blunt handwritten
confession, suggest that the killer is still very much alive, and, in fact, in their midst. As
the evidence mounts, the three classmates find themselves drawn into web of distrust,
deceit, and corruption that will leave each of them fighting for their lives. From the
depths of storage warehouses to moldering caves in the forest preserve to the shores of
Lake Michigan, The Innocence Game is irresistible, harrowing suspense from a writer at
the top of his form.
FIRST STAND-ALONE NOVEL OUTSIDE THE SERIES: This is Michael Harvey's first
stand-alone thriller and a chance to bring his superlative crime writing to a broad new readership.
IN-HOUSE AND BOOKSELLER FAVORITE: We are committed to building Michael Harvey--we
have a substantial backlist as well as a new novel under contract. He has elicited tremendous
devotion in-house and is beloved by booksellers across the country and especially in his
hometown of Chicago.
REVIEW ATTENTION: Harvey continues to garner excellent reviews and stellar early praise.
Praise for Michael Harvey: "Michael Harvey should be read by all." --John Grisham; "Jolting . . .
Harvey's feel for Chicago ramps up the fast-paced, grimly realistic action." --The New York
Times Book Review
3-city Author Tour: Boston (and New
England), Chicago, and Seattle
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Chicago, New York, and Seattle
Author Residence: Chicago, IL
Author Hometown: Boston, MA
Michael Harvey is the author of four previous novels and is also a journalist and
documentary producer. His work has won national and international acclaim, including
multiple Emmy Awards, two Primetime Emmy nominations, and an Academy Award
nomination. He holds a JD from Duke, an MA in journalism from Northwestern, and a BA
in classical languages from Holy Cross College.
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 2: Fiction - African American - General
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Page Count: 496
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Publicist: Kim Thornton
8-City Author Tour: Boston, Los
Angeles, New York, Philadelpia,
Princeton, San Francisco, Seattle, and
Washington, D.C.
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Review
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Salon.com, GoodReads, Facebook
Adichie's TED talk (posted 10/09): 3.2
million views
Reading Group Guide (available at
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful new novel--her
first in seven years: a story of love and race centered around a young man and
woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries
they come to call home.
As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their
Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can.
Ifemelu--beautiful, self-assured--departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and
triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of
something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze--the quiet, thoughtful son of a
professor--had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he
plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, Obinze is a
wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a
writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America. But when Ifemelu returns to
Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared passion--for their homeland and for
each other--they will face the toughest decisions of their lives. Fearless, gripping,
spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story of love
and expectation set in today's globalized world.
TRACK RECORD: Half of a Yellow Sun, Adichie's best-selling epic novel of Biafra, is considered
a classic, with more than 100,000 in print in all editions; her most recent work was a collection of
stories. This highly anticipated novel--set in large part in the United States--will attract major
attention, expanding her audience further.
AUTHOR: Adichie is a literary superstar, a MacArthur Fellow and a fabulous promoter whose
fiction has received raves and numerous awards; Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Prize,
was an NBCC Finalist and a New York Times Notable; it is now being adapted for film.
POINT OF VIEW/SCOPE: Adichie turns wise eyes on race and politics, gender and class,
immigration and academia, offering a perspective we have not heard from before: she casts a
wide net even as she gives us a timeless love story.
"Adichie's great gift is that she has always brought us into the territory of the previously
unexplored. She writes about that which others have kept silent. Americanah is no
exception. This is not just a story that unfolds across three different continents, it is also
a keenly observed examination of race, identity and belonging in the global landscapes
of Africans and Americans. If Joyce had silence, exile and cunning for his defense,
Adichie has flair, loss and longing. And Adichie is brave enough to allow the story to
unfold with a distinct straightforward simplicity that never loses its edgy intellect."
--Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin
Author Residence: Nigeria; Columbia, MD
Author Hometown: Nigeria
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE's work has appeared in various publications, including
The New Yorker, Granta, and Zoetrope. She is the author of The Thing Around Your
Neck and of two novels, Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the
Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist. A recipient of a MacArthur
Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
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Gettysburg
The Last Invasion
Allen C. Guelzo
ON SALE 5/14/2013
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Category: History
BISAC 1: History - United States - Civil War Period
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BISAC 2: History - United States - 19th Century
BISAC 3: History - Military - United States
Page Count: 688
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Illustrations: 44 MAPS; 8 PAGES OF PHOTOS
From the acclaimed Civil War historian, and coinciding with 150th anniversary of
the legendary battle: a brilliant new history--the most intimate and richly readable
account we have had--that draws the reader into the muck and grime of
Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts, as never before, the
combination of personalities and circumstances that produced one of the great
battles of all time.
Though the Battle of Gettysburg has been written about at length and thoroughly
dissected in terms of strategic importance, never before has a book dived down so
closely to the individual soldier to explore the experience of the three days of intense
fighting for the people involved, or looked so closely at the way politics swayed military
decisions, or placed the battle in the context of nineteenth-century military practice.
Guelzo shows us the face, the sights and sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the
stone walls and gunpowder clouds of Pickett's Charge; the reason that the Army of
Northern Virginia could be smelled before it could be seen; the march of thousands of
men from the banks of the Rappahannock in Virginia to the Pennsylvania hills. What
emerges is a previously untold story: from the personal politics roiling the Union and
Confederate officer ranks, to the peculiar character of artillery units. Through such
scrutiny the cornerstone battle of the Civil War is given extraordinarily vivid new life.
A FRESH PERSPECTIVE: Eschewing the top-down focus of much military history-writing,
Guelzo applies the lessons of John Keegan to Gettysburg for the first time. He focuses on the
ground-level experiences of the soldiers in battle in order to better explain its outcomes and
consequences, offering a more accurate and human account, in a time when the closeness of
modern wars makes cold strategy less appealing.
SUBJECT EXPERT: Guelzo, a professor at Gettysburg College, is a two-time winner of the
Lincoln Prize for books concerning the Civil War era (past winners include James McPherson,
Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Ken Burns), and author of the acclaimed Lincoln and Douglas: The
Debates That Defined America.
CIVIL WAR SELLS: Two million visitors a year pass through the bookstore at Gettysburg
National Park. The sesquicentennial of the Battle is in July of 2013. Based on reservations
they're expecting more than two million people to visit Gettysburg for the anniversary. It's the
first really big one since the beginning of the war.
Author Residence: Gettysburg, PA
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ALLEN C. GUELZO is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of
Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Lincoln's Emancipation
Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America and Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer
President, both winners of the Lincoln Prize. Guelzo's essays, reviews, and articles have
appeared in publications ranging from the American Historical Review and Wilson
Quarterly to newspapers such as The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Wall Street Journal.
Author Hometown: Paoli, PA
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The Engagements
J. Courtney Sullivan
ON SALE 6/4/2013
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Category: Fiction
Page Count: 400
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
11-City+ Author Tour: Boston; Cape
Cod; Chicago; Martha's Vineyard; New
York; Philadelphia; Portland, ME
(among other cities in Maine); Portland,
OR; San Francisco; Seattle; and
Washington, D.C.
York Times Book Review,
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York Times Sunday Styles Section
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Maine and Commencement
comes a big, sprawling novel about marriage--about those who marry in a white
heat of passion, those who marry for partnership and comfort, and those who live
together, love each other, and have absolutely no intention of ruining it all with a
wedding.
Evelyn has been married to her husband for forty years--forty years since he slipped
off her first wedding ring and put his own in its place. Delphine knows both sides of
love--the ecstatic, glorious highs of seduction and the bitter, spiteful fury that descends
when it's over. James, a paramedic who works the night shift, knows his wife's family
thinks she could have done better. Kate, partnered with Dan for ten years, has seen
every kind of wedding--from the Nantucket beach wedding to the Irish castle
wedding--and has vowed never, ever, to have one of her own. And Frances Gerety, a
young advertising copywriter, knows exactly what marriage is: it's a diamond ring on a
girl's finger--and it's her job to make sure everyone believes that. Weaving these lives
together, Sullivan gives us a sharply observed, witty, irresistible portrait of the thorny,
joyful, and complicated union that is marriage.
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER: Climbing to #6 on the New York Times best-seller list,
Maine also appeared on the lists of The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly,
USA Today, and IndieBound.
BEST OF THE YEAR: Maine was a Time and BookPage Best Book of the Year, as well as a
Washington Post Book World Notable Book.
AUTHOR: Sullivan is an active promoter and extremely well connected, writing for The New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Allure, and many others.
DIAMONDS!: Diamond rings haunt the pages of this novel, along with the carefully researched
story of how De Beers expanded sales of diamonds in America.
Praise for Maine:
"Rich and exhilarating...You don't want the novel to end." --The New York Times Book Review
"Sullivan presents women who may be stubborn and difficult, but she does so with such
compassion and humor that we, too, end up rooting for them." --Chicago Tribune
Author Residence: Brooklyn, NY
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN is the author of the New York Times best-selling novels
Commencement and Maine.Maine was named a Best Book of the Year by Time
magazine and a Washington Post Notable Book for 2011. Her writing has also appeared
in The New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal,
Glamour, Allure, Real Simple, and New York magazine, among others.
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The Sweet Girl
Annabel Lyon
From the award-winning author of The Golden Mean, a captivating, wholly
transporting new novel that follows Aristotle's strong-willed daughter as she
shapes her own destiny: an unexpected love story, a tender portrait of a girl and
her father, and an astonishing journey through the underbelly of a supposedly
enlightened society.
Aristotle has never been able to resist a keen mind, and Pythias is certainly her
father's daughter: besting his brightest students, refusing to content herself with a life
circumscribed by the kitchen, the loom, and, eventually, a husband. Into her teenage
years, she is protected by the reputation of her adored father, but with the death of
Alexander the Great, her fortunes suddenly change. Aristotle's family is forced to flee
Athens for a small town where the great philosopher soon dies, and orphaned Pythias
quickly discovers that the world is not a place of logic after all, but one of superstition. As
threats close in on her--a rebellious household, capricious gods and goddesses--she will
need every ounce of wit she possesses, and the courage to seek refuge where she least
expects it.
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BISAC 2: Fiction - Coming Of Age
Page Count: 256
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BEST SELLER: The Sweet Girl landed on the Globe & Mail list at #9 its first week, and was
longlisted for Canada's most important award: the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION: The Golden Mean was also a major best seller in Canada,
winning the Writers' Trust Prize and shortlisted for the Giller and Governor-General. It was
published in sixteen countries and acclaimed around the world.
HEROINE: Pythias is a character who transcends her time: plucky, sharp-witted, yet vulnerable,
and bound to win the hearts of readers.
REVIEWS: Random Canada published in September 2012 to wonderful reviews, and Atlantic
U.K. will go in January 2013, so we will have plenty of coverage to work from.
UNIQUE STYLE OF HISTORICAL FICTION: Lyon's storytelling is stark, unadorned, and absent
of clichés. She makes the ancient world immediate as no one else can.
STAND-ALONE: The novel continues the story of Aristotle's family that was begun in The
Golden Mean, but it stands on its own.
Praise for The Golden Mean
"This quietly ambitious and beautifully achieved novel is one of the most convincing historical
novels I have ever read." --Hilary Mantel
"Lyon has shaped history into a narrative not only gripping, but also accessible and poignant,
even tender...Here we have a novel that is brave enough to raise the universal questions about
how a man should live his life." --The Boston Globe
Author Residence: Vancouver, Canada
Author Hometown: Vancouver, Canada
ANNABEL LYON is the author of the novel The Golden Mean, a best seller in Canada
that won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank
Giller Prize and the Governor-General's Award. Her story collection, Oxygen, and book
of novellas, The Best Thing for You, were also published in Canada to wide acclaim.
She lives in British Columbia with her husband and two children.
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Bad Monkey
Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning a wickedly funny, fiercely
pointed tale in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of pristine land in
Florida--now, in the Bahamas too--get their comeuppance in mordantly ingenious,
diabolically entertaining fashion.
Andrew Yancy--late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County
Sheriff's Office--has a human arm in his freezer. There's a logical (Hiaasenian)
explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the
boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder,
his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first
Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events--from the Keys to Miami to a
Bahamian out island--with a crew of equally ever-surprising characters, including: the
twitchy widow of the frozen arm; an avariciously idiotic real estate developer; a voodoo
witch whose lovers are blinded-unto-death by her particularly peculiar charms; Yancy's
new love, a kinky medical examiner; and the eponymous Bad Monkey, who earns his
place among Hiaasen's greatest characters with hilariously wicked aplomb.
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BISAC 1: Fiction - Humorous
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Page Count: 336
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
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BEST SELLER: Hiaasen's last novel, Star Island, landed on the New York Times list at #2 and
stayed on for seven weeks. It has sold more than 350,000 copies across all formats.
WILD: This is Carl Hiaasen at full throttle. He delivers a lot of rollicking, raunchy laughs, and one
of his zaniest casts yet.
PROFILE: Garden & Gun is doing a confirmed upcoming feature on Hiaasen, which we will try
to time to publication.
FUTURES: We have Hiaasen's next novel under contract, joint with Vintage--the first time
Vintage will publish his fiction in paperback.
SOCIAL CONSCIENCE: As usual with a Hiaasen novel, the humor overlays the author's
powerful convictions about society and the environment. In this novel he skewers everyone from
sleazy land developers to Medicare fraud perpetrators--ample fodder for features and interviews.
Praise for Carl Hiaasen
"Does anyone remember what we did for fun before Hiaasen began turning out his satirical
comedies?" --Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle
"Whenever it seems as if he might be running out of oxen to gore, Hiaasen comes up with fresh
victims for his killing wit. [He is] Florida's most entertainingly indignant social critic...Outlandish
events soar on the exuberance of Hiaasen's manic style, a canny blend of lunatic farce and
savage satire." --Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
Author Residence: Florida
Author Hometown: Florida
CARL HIAASEN was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of twelve previous
novels, including the best-selling Star Island, Nature Girl, Skinny Dip, Sick Puppy, and
Lucky You, and four best-selling children's books, Chomp, Hoot, Flush, and Scat. His
most recent work of nonfiction is The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous
Sport. He also writes a weekly column for The Miami Herald.
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Bootstrapper
From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Mardi Jo Link
ON SALE 6/11/2013
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978-0-307-59691-8
$24.95/$28.95 Can.
Category: Biography
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Women
BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Personal
Memoirs
BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography Environmentalists & Naturalists
Page Count: 272
Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-3/8
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Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: the memoir of a woman who, after ending her
nineteen-year marriage, staves off a perpetually empty bank account, saves her
century-old farmhouse from foreclosure with the help of her three young sons,
and reclaims her life.
It's the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link's dream of living the simple life has
unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. Still, when she and her
husband call it quits, leaving her more broke than ever, Link makes a seemingly
impossible resolution: to hang on to her northern Michigan farm and continue to raise
her boys on well water and wood chopping and dirt. Armed with an unfailing sense of
humor and her three resolute accomplices, Link confronts blizzards and coyotes, learns
about Zen divorce and the best way to butcher a hog, dominates a zucchini-growing
contest and wins a year's supply of local bread, masters the art of bargain cooking,
deals with rampaging poultry, and finds her way to a truly rich existence. Told with
endless heart and candor, Bootstrapper is a story of motherhood and survival and
self-discovery, of an indomitable woman who, against all the odds, holds on to what
matters most.
VOICE: Funny, self-deprecating, fierce, Link is an irresistible heroine--a true bootstrapper, a
person determined to pull herself up in the face of bitter adversity, who appreciates life's beauty
and can withstand any blow to pride as long as she can hold on to what she loves most in the
world, her farm and her boys. Grit, mettle, and laugh-out-loud humor, infused with a deep
appreciation for the natural world.
SETTING: Beautiful rural Michigan and along the shores of Grand Traverse Bay--tremendous
regional potential.
COMPS: Will appeal to fans of Wild and Eat, Pray, Love.
Author Residence: Traverse City, MI
Author Hometown: Detroit, MI
Mardi Jo Link is the author of When Evil Came to Good Hart (2008) and Isadore's
Secret (2009), winner of the Michigan Notable Book Award. She lives with her family on
a farm in northern Michigan.
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9780472070794
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978-0-307-59273-6
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Price
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$22.95
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Eleven Days
Lea Carpenter
A stunning debut novel--unexpected, tautly written, suspenseful--that touches on
some of the most profound questions we have about war as it tells us a haunting
story of a single mother, and her Navy SEAL son.
It begins in May 2011: Sara's son Jason has been missing for nine days in the
aftermath of a SEAL mission. Out of devotion to him, Sara--smart, modest,
tough-minded--has made herself knowledgeable about things military, and, as a
freelance editor, she frequently works for Washington policy makers and wonks. But she
knows nothing more about her son's disappearance than the press corps camped out in
her driveway. In a series of flashbacks we learn about Jason's absentee father: a man
who claimed to have been a writer but who died, according to "insiders," helping to make
the country safer. Through letters Jason wrote his mother while training, we see him
becoming a strong, compassionate leader. But his fate will be determined by events that
fall outside the sphere of his training, and far outside the strong embrace of his mother's
love.
ON SALE 6/18/2013
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978-0-307-96070-2
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 2: Fiction - Adventure
Page Count: 288
Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4
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SUBJECT: This is a mother's take on war now. It is also a mother/son story about the intensely
loving bond between a single mother and her son. Women can relate to the story of raising and
losing an only son and men to the SEAL training and secrecy.
AUDIENCE: This story should appeal to anyone interested in the top secret, heroic stealthlike
SEAL operations, most of which we never hear about, to people in the military, those who have
served, war fiction fans. It is also a woman's book.
RELEVANCE: The killing of Osama Bin Laden is the most spectacular example of many SEAL
missions, and it aroused sustained interest in their work.
AUTHOR: From her time as Deputy Publisher of The Paris Review, and her work as co-chair of
programming for the New York Public Library Council, she is known in New York literary and
media circles.
FILMS: Two Navy SEAL stories for this year and 2013: Lone Survivor with Mark Wahlberg about
a failed 6/5/05 mission is in pre-production; Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty with Jessica
Chastain and Chris Pratt about the Bin Laden raid comes out 12/12.
Author Residence: New York, New York
Lea Carpenter graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton and
earned an MBA from Harvard, where she was valedictorian. An editor of Zoetrope and a
former deputy publisher of The Paris Review, she launched Think, See, Feel where she
writes the English Lessons blog as well as being a blogger for Big Think, which has two
million unique visitors a month.
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American Sniper/ Kyle, McEwen, DeFelice/…
SEAL Team Six/ Wasdin and Templin/ HC
You Know When the Men Are Gone/Fallon,Si…
Lone Survivor/ Marcus Luttrell/ HC
Black Hawk Down/ Mark Bowden/ HC
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: ED VICTOR LTD
ISBN
9780316185363
9780062082350
9780312699451
9780399157202
9780316067591
9780871137388
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05/11
1/11
06/07
03/99
Reprint: Yes
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Little, Brown
William Morrow
St. Martins
Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Little, Brown
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$26.99
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$23.95
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$25.00
Instructions for a Heatwave
Maggie O'Farrell
ON SALE 6/18/2013
KNOPF
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978-0-385-34940-6
$25.95
Category: Fiction
BISAC 2: Fiction - Urban
Page Count: 304
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
A sweeping family drama, in which the disappearance of a family patriarch forces
three adult siblings to gather together to find him and to confront what they really
know about their father and themselves.
It's the summer of 1976 and London is in the grip of a record-breaking heat wave
when Gretta Riordan discovers that her newly retired husband, Robert, has cleaned out
his bank account and vanished. Now, Gretta's three children converge in their mother's
home for the first time in years: Michael Francis, a history teacher whose marriage is
failing; Monica, with two stepdaughters who despise her and an ugly secret that has
driven a wedge between herself and the little sister she once adored; and Aoife, the
youngest of the Riordans, now living in Manhattan, a smart, immensely resourceful
young woman who has arranged her entire life to conceal her illiteracy.
As the siblings tease out clues about their father's whereabouts, they navigate rocky
pasts and long-held secrets, until at last their search brings them to their ancestral
village in Ireland, where the truth of their parents' lives--and their own--is suddenly
revealed. Wise, lyrical, instantly engrossing, Instructions for a Heat Wave is a richly
satisfying page-turner from a writer of exceptional intelligence and grace.
COMPS: O'Farrell's enormous gifts for texture, character, and suspense put her in the company
of Anne Tyler, Sue Miller, Maeve Binchy, and Kate Atkinson.
BEST-SELLING, AWARD-WINNING BRITISH WRITER: The Hand That First Held Mine won the
Costa Book Award for best novel of the year; The Distance Between Us won the Somerset
Maugham Award. Her previous work has garnered tremendous reviews, numerous awards, and
modest American sales. Instructions for a Heat Wave is poised to be her breakout book.
Praise for Maggie O'Farrell: "O'Farrell has a magical talent...Powerful and mesmerizing." --The
Independent on Sunday; "One of Britain's most engaging contemporary novelists." --The
Literary Review
Litbreaker Network (literary blogs),
Library Marketing, including ALA and
EarlyWord.com
Author Residence: London
Author Hometown: Northern Ireland
Born in Northern Ireland in 1972, Maggie O'Farrell grew up in Wales and Scotland and
now lives in London. She has worked as a waitress, chambermaid, bike messenger,
teacher, arts administrator, and journalist in Hong Kong and London, and as the deputy
literary editor of The Independent on Sunday. Her debut novel, After You'd Gone (2000),
won a Betty Trask Award and was followed by My Lover's Lover (2002); The Distance
Between Us (2004), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Vanishing Act of Esme
Lennox (2006); and The Hand That First Held Mine (2010), winner of the Costa Book
Award.
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After You'd Gone/Maggie O'Farrell/HC
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Unlikely Pilgrimage/Harold Fry/Joyce, Ra…
The Red House/Haddon, Mark/HC
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: C. FLETCHER & COMPANY, LLC
ISBN
978-0-307-96258-4
ISBN
9780547330792
9787540449803
9780151014118
9780156033671
9780670894482
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Harcourt
Mariner
Penguin/Viking Adult
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Random House
DDay Gen Adult
Price
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The Madonna on the Moon
Rolf Bauerdick
ON SALE 7/2/2013
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An award-winning photographer and journalist now turns his eye for the telling
detail of character and culture onto the page with this exuberant, deeply
enchanting debut novel--at once whimsical and suspenseful--that has already
been acclaimed across Europe and sold in more than a dozen countries
worldwide.
November 1957: Communism rules in Eastern Europe, but the tiny village of Baia
Luna, nestled in the Carpathian mountains, is a world unto itself. Fifteen-year-old Pavel
Botev attends the small village school with all the other children. Their sole teacher,
Angela Barbulescu--a red-faced drunk who usually arrives at school late and hung
over--was sent to the village (or more likely exiled there) by the Ministry of Education.
And while it appears that she was once a beauty and lived a highly cultured life, most of
her past remains hidden. But when she asks Pavel to hang a photo of the new Party
Secretary, she whispers a startling directive into his ear: "Send this man straight to hell.
Exterminate him." By the next morning, she has disappeared. With his school days
suddenly ended, Pavel sets himself on a mission to discover what she meant and why
she said it--a course that will change his life forever.
German praise for The Madonna on the Moon
"A dazzling book, larger than life, exuberantly picturesque . . . German literature has a new
powerful voice--and most of all an unusual one." --Focus
978-0-307-59412-9
$27.95/$33.00 Can.
"Bizarre and anarchistic, this book is enormously entertaining . . . No German novelist since
Bernhard Schlink has received this much international attention." --Hendrik Werner, Die Welt
Category: Fiction
BISAC 2: Fiction - Coming Of Age
Page Count: 416
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
"Rolf Bauerdick is a natural born narrator. The fierce realism of his story spoils neither its magic
nor its humor." --Spiegel Online
Author Residence: Germany
Extra galleys
Rolf Bauerdick was born in 1957. He studied literature and theology before turning to
journalism and photography. His work has been awarded numerous prizes among them
Germany's prestigious Hansel Mieth Prize. His articles have been published in Der
Spiegel, Geo, and Playboy among other publications. He lives in a converted flour mill in
Northern Germany with his wife and children. The Madonna on the Moon is his first
novel. Translated from the German by David Dollenmayer.
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Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: LIEPMAN AGENCY
ISBN
978-0-307-96223-2
ISBN
978-0-307-70011-7
978-0-307-74441-8
9780805060126
9780312655372
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Knopf
Publisher
Knopf
Vintage
Metropolitan
Picador
Price
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$26.00
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The Devil's Cave
Martin Walker
Mystery, food, and wine in the Dordogne--the latest offering from Martin Walker,
starring Benoît "Bruno" Courrèges.
It's spring in St. Denis. The village choir is preparing for its Easter concert, the
wildflowers are blooming, and among the lazy whorls of the river, a dead woman is
found floating in a boat. It's another case for Bruno, the town's beloved chief of police.
With the discovery of sinister markings and black candles near the body, it seems to him
that the occult might be involved. And as questions mount--regarding a troubling real
estate proposal in the region; a suspicious, violent death made to look accidental; and
the sudden reappearance of a politically controversial elderly countess--Bruno and his
friends are drawn ever closer to a climactic showdown in the Gouffre de Colombac: what
locals call the Devil's Cave.
THE EUROPEAN CONNECTION: For the readers of Peter Mayle and Donna Leon.
PROMOTION PLUS: The author created a terrific online guide to the Dordogne, where the
books are set. He has now appeared on The Diane Rehm Show; been reviewed favorably in
The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Entertainment Weekly; and is excellent in-store.
FOOD, FRANCE, MYSTERY: A winning combination in any market.
ON SALE 7/9/2013
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978-0-385-34952-9
$24.95
Praise for the series:
"The small towns where Martin Walker sets his enchanting country mysteries embody the
sublime physical beauty and intractable political problems of the Dordogne region of France."
--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
Author Residence: Washington, D.C.
Category: Fiction
BISAC 2: Fiction - Suspense
Page Count: 336
Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-3/8
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available for promotional use (search "A
Perfect Weekend in Perigord by Martin Walker")
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Author Hometown: London, England
MARTIN WALKER is senior director of the Global Business Policy Council, a private
think tank for CEOs of major corporations, based in Washington, D.C. He is also
editor-in-chief emeritus and international affairs columnist at United Press International.
His four previous novels in the Bruno series are Bruno, Chief of Police; The Dark
Vineyard; Black Diamond; and The Crowded Grave.
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978-0-385-34952-9
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978-0-307-70019-3
978-0-307-95859-4
978-0-307-70014-8
978-0-307-74463-0
978-0-307-70145-9
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978-0-307-45471-3
978-0-307-59381-8
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Knopf
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Knopf
Vintage
Vintage
Knopf
Vintage
Vintage
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A Treacherous Paradise
Henning Mankell
ON SALE 7/9/2013
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978-0-307-96122-8
$26.95
Category: Fiction
Page Count: 384
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
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From the internationally acclaimed author of the Wallander crime series, a
dramatic new stand-alone novel set in turn-of-the-century Sweden and
Mozambique, whose indomitable female protagonist is awoken from naïveté by
her exposure to racism and by her own unexpected inner strengths.
Cold and poverty define Hanna Renström's childhood in remote northern Sweden,
and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But
none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief
marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in
Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white supremacy rule, where she
is isolated within society by her profession and her sex, and, among the bordello's black
prostitutes, by her color. As Hanna's story unfurls over the next several years, we watch
her in this "treacherous paradise," as she wrestles with a constant, wrenching loneliness
and with the racism she's meant to unthinkingly adopt. And as her life becomes
increasingly intertwined with the prostitutes, she moves inexorably toward the moment
when she will make a decision that defies every expectation society has of her, and,
more important, those she has of herself.
SALES: Mankell's last Knopf hardcover, The Troubled Man, landed at #6 on the New York
Times best-seller list, and has sold more than 100,000 copies across all formats.
STAND-ALONE: Appeals as much to first-time readers as to already devoted fans.
HEROINE: Hanna Renström is an intrepid protagonist sure to fascinate readers.
HISTORICAL BASIS: As Mankell explains in an afterword, the novel is based on a real historical
figure; tax records show that there was a Swedish woman living in this East African town, who
ran one of its most profitable brothels.
INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION: A main book club selection in Sweden, the novel is being
published across Europe. It's a best seller in Germany, where there are 85,000 copies in print
after four printings. Harvill Secker will publish in the U.K. in June.
SETTING: Mankell lives part-time in Africa, and the novel's backdrop invokes themes that matter
deeply to him. In his own words, "The bordello is where power and powerlessness meet, where
passion is a commodity. But it is also a place where lives are intertwined and make for a story
unlike anything I have ever come close to writing."
Reviews from Sweden
"Reminiscent of such novels as Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Achebe's Things Fall Apart."
--Kristianstadsbladet
Author Residence: Sweden; Mozambique
Author Hometown: Sweden
HENNING MANKELL's novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold
more than thirty million copies worldwide. He is the first winner of the Ripper Award (the
new European prize for crime fiction) and has also received the Glass Key and Golden
Dagger Awards. His Kurt Wallander mysteries were adapted into a PBS television series
starring Kenneth Branagh. Mankell divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique.
Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson.
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Faceless Killers/TR
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978-0-307-96123-5
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9781595581921
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978-0-307-59537-9
978-0-307-47740-8
978-0-307-27186-0
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9781400031573
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New Press
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Vintage
Vintage
Knopf
Vintage
Vintage
Vintage
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1st Serial: Yes
Special Markets:
Agent: ANNELI HOIER
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$25.95
$9.99
$15.00
$14.95/$18.95 Can.
The Homecoming
Carsten Stroud
Somewhere in the American South, there is a town where something is very, very
wrong. A place where malicious men may die, but malice...never.
Kate and Nick Kavanaugh (lawyer and cop respectively) take in young Rainey
Teague, whose parents have died under mysterious circumstances. Rainey is a handful.
Well, actually, Rainey is turning out to be someone--or something--downright scary: a
shape-shifting time-bending little boy who will have to resist being taken over by
"Nothing." Will Kate and Nick be able to save him? Will the mirror they have kept up in
the attic ultimately be their downfall? When more disappearances start to happen, where
do they turn? No one can explain what is happening, but everyone knows that their
sleepy, peaceful town, Niceville, is turning out to be anything but nice.
When Carsten Stroud's previous novel, Niceville, was published, Elmore Leonard
wrote: "I hope Mr. Stroud, having had so much fun writing Niceville, listening to his
people give him terrific dialogue, is writing a sequel or another one like it." We give you
The Homecoming.
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POTENTIAL: Carsten Stroud has the potential to excite Stephen King's audience, and we will do
extensive outreach to his fans.
RECEPTION: Peter Straub, Elmore Leonard, John Lescroart, and Karin Slaughter were all
enthusiastic advocates of Niceville. We can expect more of the same for this book. Harlan
Coben and Nelson DeMille are big fans of Carsten's as well.
CHARACTERS SHAKING THINGS UP: These include Mario La Motta, who sends Endicott, a
well-dressed gentleman known as "the Collector," to deal with his old pal Dietz; Delores, the
mob wife who seeks revenge when her husband is killed in a mall shoot-out; Edgar, the meek,
retired cop who is at the wrong place at the wrong time; Warren Smoles, the sleaziest lawyer
you will ever meet, and more.
CHARACTERS UP TO OLD TRICKS: Fans of Niceville will be pleased to see, among others,
Tig and Boonie, the cops; Byron Dietz, arrested for the crime he didn't commit; Lemon
Featherlight, Mavis Crossfire, and Lyle Preston Crowder.
PLANNING AHEAD: Marketing plans will be carefully coordinated with Black Lizard's publication
of the paperback of Niceville in June 2013.
PRAISE FOR Carsten Stroud:
"Strange, outrageous and wonderful... Offers surprises, shocks, moments of lyricism, explosions
of humor and unrelenting suspense. It's superior storytelling. Call it the summer's darkest, most
delicious guilty pleasure." --Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post Book World
"[An] A-ticket thrill-ride...As enthralling as a tale by the Brothers Grimm." --Tom Nolan, The Wall
Street Journal
CARSTEN STROUD is a New York Times best-selling writer of fiction and nonfiction,
including the true-crime account Close Pursuit. His novels include Sniper's Moon,
Lizardskin, Cuba Strait, and Cobraville. He lives in Toronto.
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Amor and Psycho
Stories
Carolyn Cooke
From the highly acclaimed author of Daughters of the Revolution and The
Bostons (winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for fiction) comes a lyrical,
visceral collection of short stories about sex and scars, waste and promise, with
an eclectic cast of characters spanning generations and cultures.
In "Francis Bacon," an aspiring writer crafts sexual fantasies for an Upper East Side
mogul. In "The Snake," a restless psychologist sheds one existence after another,
continuously restarting her life. In "The Boundary," a resident artist on a Native American
reservation connects with a charismatic, deeply troubled teenager. In the surreal "She
Bites," a man builds a doghouse as his wife slowly transforms. In "Opal Is Evidence," a
woman and her ten-year-old daughter, who suffers from a brain tumor, house-sit at the
yurt of marijuana farmers. In "The New Skin," a man literally unpeeled by horrific burns
gradually recovers. And in the transcendent, three-part title story, two close friends
confront cancer and suicide. Cooke's searing tapestry, peopled by characters who
disappear and reemerge throughout the collection, explores lives ruled by illness, ritual,
desire, and angst. At once philosophical and compulsively readable, Amor and Psycho
dives into our dark spaces, confronting the poetry and brutality of human existence.
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REVIEWER'S FAVORITE: Carolyn Cooke's debut novel, Daughters of the Revolution, was
short-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, and was named among the top ten books
of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle and New York magazine's "Reviewer's Favorite" books
of the year.
MASTER OF THE SHORT FORM: Cooke's previous short-story collection won the PEN/Robert
W. Bingham Prize and was a runner up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her short stories have
been included in two volumes each of the O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Short
Stories.
Praise for Daughters of the Revolution: "Cooke writes with such delicacy and control, such
luminous warmth, that the only disappointment comes when the book ends" --The Boston Globe;
"shimmers with intimate and revealing detail" --The New York Times
Author Residence: San Francisco, CA
Carolyn Cooke is the author of the highly acclaimed Daughters of the Revolution and
The Bostons. Her short stories have appeared in AGNI, Gargoyle, The Paris Review,
Ploughshares, Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. Her
nonfiction has appeared in The Nation, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and New
California Writing 2011. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Arts and the California Arts Council, she teaches at the California Institute of Integral
Studies in San Francisco.
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A Marker to Measure Drift
Alexander Maksik
Alexander Maksik's electrifying novel tracks a woman's journey from the horrors
of Charles Taylor's Liberia to abject poverty and self-exile on a Greek island,
where she must grapple with a haunted past and find a way back into human
society.
On an island somewhere in the Aegean, Jacqueline, a young Liberian woman, veers
between starvation and satiety, between the brutality of her past and the precarious
uncertainty of her present in the aftermath of experiences so unspeakable that she
prefers homeless numbness to the psychological confrontation she knows is inevitable.
Hypnotic, highly sensual, exquisitely written, and extraordinary in its depiction of both
pleasure and pain, of excruciating physical and spiritual hungers, A Marker to Measure
Drift is a novel about memory, how we live with what we know, and whether and how we
go forward, intact and whole, after the ravages of loss. It is beautiful, lacerating,
impossible to put down. A breakthrough work from a prodigiously gifted young writer.
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TREMENDOUS READING EXPERIENCE: Intensely visceral, utterly gripping, Maksik's novel is
a brilliant and propulsive read, a masterful piece of storytelling that delivers all the pleasures of
the best literary and commercial fiction.
ACCLAIM: Maksik's first novel, You Deserve Nothing, garnered a raft of praise from writers and
periodicals all across America and graced a host of best books of the year lists. A Marker to
Measure Drift will elicit major, excellent reviews and A-list endorsements.
AUTHOR: Maksik is highly promotable and will garner wide media attention.
SALES/FORMAT: Published only as a paperback original, You Deserve Nothing has upwards of
20,000 copies in print. A Marker to Measure Drift will be Maksik's first hardcover publication.
Praise for You Deserve Nothing: "rivetingly plotted and beautifully written...Dazzling clarity and
impressive philosophical rigor" --The New York Times; "One of the most engaged reads I've had
in years" --Alice Sebold
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Page Count: 240
Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 9-1/4
"A Marker to Measure Drift is a haunting, haunted novel. Things get stripped down to
essentials--food, water, where to sleep for the night, a state of solitary desperation
brought on by the most profound kind of loss. Every line of this excellent novel rings true
as Maksik leads us toward the catastrophe at the story's core. This is one of those books
that leaves you staring into space when you finish, dazed from the sheer power of
what's been said." --Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk
BEA Promotion
Multi-City Author Tour, including New
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ShelfAwareness, Litbreaker Network
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Online Promotion: Major GoodReads
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Library Marketing, including ALA and
EarlyWord.com
Author Residence: New York, NY
Alexander Maksik is the author of the novel You Deserve Nothing. A graduate of the
Iowa Writers' Workshop, his writing has appeared in Harper's, Tin House, Harvard
Review, The New York Times Magazine, Salon, and Narrative Magazine, among others,
and has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
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Paris Was the Place
Susan Conley
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From acclaimed author Susan Conley, a novel that gives us a luminous emotional
portrait of a young woman living abroad in Paris in the 1980s and trying to make
sense of the chaotic world around her as she learns the true meaning of family.
When Willie Pears agrees to teach at a Parisian center for immigrant girls who have
requested French asylum, she has no idea it will utterly change her life. She has lived in
Paris for six months, surrounded by the most important people in her life: her beloved
brother, Luke, her funny and wise college roommate, Sara, and Sara's do-gooder
husband, Rajiv. And now there is Macon Ventri, a passionate, dedicated attorney for the
detained girls. Theirs is a meeting of both hearts and minds--but not without its
problems. As Willie becomes more involved with the immigrant girls who touch her soul,
the lines between teaching and mothering are blurred. She is especially drawn to Gita, a
young Indian girl who is determined to be free. Ultimately Willie will make a decision with
potentially dire consequences to both her relationship with Macon and the future of the
center. Meanwhile, Luke is taken with a serious, as-yet-unnamed illness, and Willie will
come to understand the power of unconditional love while facing the dark days of his
death. Conley has written a piercing, deeply humane novel that explores the
connections between family and friends and reaffirms the strength of the ties that bind.
SETTING: There's never a shortage of interest in Paris: The Paris Wife, Paris in Love, Midnight
in Paris, Paris: A Love Story...
PREVIOUS BOOK: The Foremost Good Fortune received wide and unanimous praise (see
below) and we expect broad review attention for this, her debut novel.
Acclaim for The Foremost Good Fortune
"This is a beautiful story of womanhood, motherhood, travel and loss, written by an author of
rare and radiant grace." --Elizabeth Gilbert
"Graceful and honest, humorous and insightful." --Christina Eng, San Francisco Chronicle
"You hear about riveting prose, and this is it. The Foremost Good Fortune is just about as
honest a book as you'll ever read . . . a beautiful [story] about China and cancer and how to be
an authentic, courageous human being." --Carolyn See, The Washington Post
Author Residence: Portland, ME
Author Hometown: Burlington, VT
SUSAN CONLEY is the author of The Foremost Good Fortune, a book that won the
Maine Literary Award for memoir and was a Goodreads Choice Award Winner. Her
writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Daily
Beast, The Paris Review, The Harvard Review, The Massachusetts Review, and
elsewhere. She lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband and their two sons.
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Going Home Again
Dennis Bock
After two acclaimed historical novels, one of Canada's most celebrated young
writers now goes contemporary with the vibrant story of a man taking stock of the
shape his life has taken, and why, and what--as a husband, a father, a brother, and
an uncle--his responsibilities truly are.
Charlie Bellerose leads a semi-nomadic existence, traveling widely to manage the
language academies he has established in different countries. After separating,
somewhat amicably, from his wife, he moves from Madrid back to his native Canada to
set up a new school, and for the first time in his life he forges a meaningful relationship
with his brother, who's going through a vicious divorce. Charlie manages to make a fresh
start in Toronto but longs for his twelve-year-old daughter, whom he sees only via Skype
and the occasional overseas visit. After a chance encounter with a college girlfriend, he
works through a series of memories--including a particularly painful one they share--as
he reflects on how he ended up where he is. But two tragic events (one long past, the
other very much in the present) finally force him to reevaluate his priorities and his
relationships with everyone around him.
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PREVIOUS NOVELS: Bock's debut, The Ash Garden, rooted in the nuclear events at
Hiroshima, was published throughout Europe and, despite being released here on 9/11 itself,
attracted major review attention (see below) and a strong readership.
CONTEMPORARY SETTING: His second novel, The Communist's Daughter, was also
historical, whereas this one is extremely current and its main character's adventures lead him
through Toronto and Montreal and finally Berlin and Spain, venues Bock captures with great flair.
CROSS-BORDER BUZZ: This is a lead title for HarperCollins in Canada, who will publish at the
same time and provide excellent cross-border promotional opportunities.
SUBJECT: Certain aspects of this novel bring Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending to mind,
from the fallibility of our memories to the way our early life determines so much of what comes
afterward, though above all this novel is about family in the widest possible respects and how
each one contains warring factions that both frustrate and help focus every member's hopes and
desires.
Praise for The Ash Garden
"Mysterious and compelling...Elegant, unnerving." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Comes close to being indispensable." --Dan Cryer, Newsday
"Bock sets a match to ethical issues that are reaching the flash point today." --Ron Charles, The
Christian Science Monitor
Author Hometown: Oakville, Ontario
Dennis Bock was awarded the Canada-Japan Literary Award in 2002 for The Ash
Garden. He lives in Toronto with his two sons.
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The Infatuations
Javier Marias
The award-winning, internationally best-selling Spanish writer joins the Knopf list
with an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder
that we come to understand--or do we?--through one woman's ever-unfurling
imagination, meditations, and infatuations.
At the Madrid café where she stops for breakfast each day before work, María Dolz
finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Though she can hardly
explain it, observing what she imagines to be their unblemished life lifts her out of the
doldrums of her own existence. But what begins as mere observation turns into an
increasingly complicated entanglement when the man is brutally murdered. María
approaches the widow to offer her condolences, and at the couple's home she
meets--and falls in love with--a man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As
María recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly reimagined as
metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, chance
and coincidence, and above all, with the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.
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SALES AND AWARDS: Marías's books have sold more than 6 million copies across forty
languages, in fifty countries. He has received, among other honors, the IMPAC Dublin Literary
Award, the Prix Femina Étranger, the Premio Grinzane Cavour, the Premio de la Crítica, and the
Alberto Moravia Prize.
INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS: The Infatuations has been extremely well received across
Europe. In Spain (Alfaguara), it hit number one on the best-seller lists with a first print of 100,000
copies--they sold 35,000 copies in two weeks and had to go immediately back to press. In
Germany (Fischer), the book has sold 60,000 copies since April. In Holland (Meulenhoff), the
book is in its fourth printing since publication in June.
CULT STATUS: Marías has gained a cult following in the U.S., but this is his opportunity to
break out. He also has a new publisher in the U.K.--Hamish Hamilton--whose edition will be out
in March 2013, and we can build from their momentum.
BACKLIST: Vintage is publishing five backlist titles in 2013: A Heart So White and Tomorrow in
the Battle Think on Me (March), and All Souls, Dark Back of Time, and When I Was Mortal
(April). Vintage Español is publishing in October 2012. Penguin Modern Classics in the U.K. is
also bringing out the backlist with introductions from writers such as John Banville and Jonathan
Coe.
Praise for Javier Marías
"One of the writers who should get the Nobel Prize is Javier Marías." --Orhan Pamuk
"Marías is in my opinion one of the best contemporary European writers." --J. M. Coetzee
Author Residence: Madrid, Spain
Author Hometown: Madrid, Spain
JAVIER MARÍAS was born in Madrid in 1951. The recipient of numerous prizes, he has
written thirteen novels, three story collections, and fifteen works of collected articles and
essays. His books have been translated into forty languages, in fifty countries, and have
sold more than 6 million copies throughout the world.
Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
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Calcutta
Two Years in the City
Amit Chaudhuri
From the acclaimed author of the novels The Immortals and Freedom Song: a
spellbinding book that combines memoir, reportage, and history in an intimate,
richly sensual portrait of the city of Calcutta.
Amit Chaudhuri has been consistently praised for the beauty and subtle power of his
writing and for the ways in which he makes "place" as complex a character as his men
and women. Now, he brings these gifts to a chronicle of two years in which he made
Calcutta his home. In a mesmerizing narrative he takes us into the heart of a metropolis
relatively untouched by the currents of globalization but possessed of a "self renewing
way...of apprehending life." The narrative moves through the city's vibrant avenues and
its derelict alleyways, introduces us to its homeless and its well-heeled, describes its
architecture and food, its sounds and smells, its past and present politics, and makes
abundantly clear the complex reasons for the author's passionate attachment to the
place and its people. It is an unusually beguiling, eye-opening journey that evokes all
that is most particular and extraordinary about the city.
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BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Personal
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MATCH OF AUTHOR AND SUBJECT: Amit spent part of his childhood in Calcutta, made his
name writing about the city, and as an adult moved his family there. He has a uniquely
perceptive view of the city--particularly how it's changed over the years--and is perhaps the only
person who could have written this book, both as insider and outsider.
INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION: The book will be published in February in the U.K. by Union
Books--a new publisher who will be making it their lead title and devoting huge energy to its
launch--and as a major lead title in India by Penguin.
AWARDS AND ACCLAIM: Amit's work always receives stunning reviews--James Wood has
called him one of his top three favorite younger living writers. His last book, The Immortals, was
a Best Book of the Year for The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Boston Globe,
and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Freedom Song received the Los
Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.
SERIAL: An extract appeared in the London Review of Books in May 2011.
APPEARANCES: Amit receives regular invitations to speak--and perform as a musician--at such
U.S. venues as the Asia Society and the Rubin Museum.
Praise for The Immortals:
"In the gloriously crowded world of modern Indian fiction, Chaudhuri stands out as a master
craftsman." --The Boston Globe
"This exquisite, highly nuanced, often very funny novel somehow took command of my thinking,
my vocabulary, my sense of what's important." --Richard Ford
Author Residence: Calcutta, India and Norwich, UK
Author Hometown: Calcutta, India
AMIT CHAUDHURI is the author of several award-winning novels and an internationally
acclaimed musician and essayist. He is a contributor to the London Review of Books,
Granta, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is Professor of Contemporary Literature
at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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The Realm of Last Chances
Steve Yarbrough
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In a captivating departure from the Deep South setting of his previous fiction,
Steve Yarbrough now gives us a richly nuanced portrait of a marriage being
reinvented in a small town in the Northeast, in his most surprising and compelling
novel yet.
When Kristin Stevens loses her job in California's higher-education system, she and
her husband, Cal, relocate to Massachusetts. Kristin takes a position at a smaller, less
prestigious university and promptly becomes entangled in its delicate, overheated
politics. Cal, whose musical talent is nothing more than a consuming avocation, spends
his days alone, fixing up their new home. And as they settle into their early fifties, the
two seem to exist in separate spheres entirely. At the same time, their younger neighbor
Matt Drinnan watches as his ex-wife takes up with another man in town, with only
himself to blame. Each facing a different sense of isolation, he and Kristin gravitate
toward each other, at first in hopes of a platonic confidant but then, inevitably, as
something more. The Realm of Last Chances provides us with a subtle, moving
exploration of relationships, loneliness, and our convoluted attempts to reach out to one
another.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR: Yarbrough was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and has
received the Mississippi Authors Award, the California Book Award, and another from the
Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.
A WRITER'S WRITER: His fans include James Lee Burke, Ha Jin, David Guterson, Beverly
Lowry, Barry Hannah, Kent Haruf, and Tom Franklin. His most recent novel, Safe from the
Neighbors, was endorsed by Richard Russo, Tim Gautreaux, John Grisham, Paul Hendrickson,
Jill McCorkle, Tom Perrotta, and Ron Rash. And Yarbrough's distinctive new book--in a less
parochial locale--should win him even greater acclaim nationwide.
Yarbrough's fiction is always reviewed widely and ecstatically, and he has many supporters in
the bookselling community.
Acclaim for Safe from the Neighbors
"Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be. It will
take your breath away." --Richard Russo
"Yarbrough is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot
be taught: he can tell a story." --John Grisham
"Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a
magnificent achievement is its moral complexity... His characters and their actions make us
question what we would or would not have done if that time and place had been our own...After
reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way." --Ron Rash
Author Residence: Stoneham, MA
Author Hometown: Indianola, MS
Born in Indianola, Mississippi, Steve Yarbrough is the author of five previous novels and
three collections of stories. He teaches at Emerson College and lives with his wife in
Stoneham, Massachusetts.
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Gabriele D'Annunzio
Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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A spellbinding biography: the volatile and fascinating life of Gabriele
D'Annunzio--poet, bon viveur, and virulent Italian nationalist who prefigured
Mussolini--that also traces the early twentieth century's trajectory from Romantic
idealism to world war and Fascist thuggery.
Gabriele D'Annunzio was Italy's premier poet at a time when poetry could trigger
riots. A brilliant self-publicist, he used his fame to sell his work, seduce women (the great
actress Eleonora Duse, among them), and promote his extreme nationalism. At once an
aesthete and a militarist, he enjoyed risking death no less than making love, and he
wrote with equal enthusiasm about Fortuny gowns and torpedoes. In 1915 his incendiary
oratory helped drive Italy into the First World War, and in 1919 he lead a troop of
mutineers into the Croatian port of Fiume, where he established a delinquent city-state.
Futurists, anarchists, communists and proto-fascists descended on the place, along with
literati and thrill-seekers, drug dealers and prostitutes. After fifteen months the regime
was brought to an end, but it would have its sequel: three years later, the fascists
marched on Rome, belting out anthems they'd learned in Fiume, Mussolini consciously
modeling himself after the great poet. This compelling biography is a revelation both of
D'Annunzio's flamboyant life and of the dramatic times he helped to shape.
DRAMATIC HISTORICAL MOMENT: D'Annunzio was one of the great writers of his time, but
this is more than a literary biography. It shows how the poet embodied, and profoundly
influenced, the larger historical currents of his era, from the growth of Italian nationalism to the
First World War to the rise of Fascism.
MUSSOLINI: Benito Mussolini explicitly cited D'Annunzio as a model for his cult of personality;
during his rise to power he craved D'Annunzio's approval and then later tried to sideline the poet
for fear of being overshadowed by him.
LARGER THAN LIFE: D'Annunzio was one of the first celebrities of the twentieth century--a man
who knew how to use the media to boost his fame and who led an extravagant life of material
excess and promiscuity.
TIME PEG: The anniversary of D'Annunzio's 150th birthday is March 12, 2013.
Author Residence: London
Lucy Hughes-Hallett is an award-winning cultural historian and critic. She is the author of
Heroes: A History of Hero Worship and Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams, and Distortions.
She has written on books, theatre, and television for most of the leading British
newspapers. For five years she was television critic for the London Evening Standard
and has long been a regular contributor to The Sunday Times books section. She has
judged a number of literary prizes, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
She lives in London.
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The Cancer Chronicles
Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
George Johnson
A provocative, intellectually vibrant, eloquently written look at recent advances in
the war on cancer that will challenge everything you thought you knew about the
disease-and provide hope for tomorrow and into the future.
When science writer George Johnson's wife was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer,
he plunged himself into a study of the disease and of the people who dedicate their lives
to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is that a revolution is now under
way-a thrilling explosion of theories about what cancer really is and where it comes from.
Here we have his luminous accounts of, among other revelations: tumors that evolve like
alien creatures inside the body . . . paleoncologists who have found petrified tumors
clinging to the skeletons of dinosaurs and human ancestors . . . the surprising changes
in science's understanding of the causes of cancer, with dietary specifics and
environmental toxins taking a lesser role. The Cancer Chronicles is endlessly surprising
and as radiant in its prose as it is authoritative in its eye-opening science.
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Page Count: 304
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A WONDERFUL AUTHOR: A beautiful writer who belongs in the company of Atul Gawande,
Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Abraham Verghese; a New York Times and Scientific American
contributor with a superior command of medical science.
BUILDING SALES: Johnson's last book, The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, is approaching
40,000 in print across all formats.
HUGE POTENTIAL MARKET: Is there a bigger audience than cancer victims and their loved
ones looking for information and optimism?
Series Overview
Praise for The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments:
"Johnson's crystalline prose is like the pull of gravity . . . an irresistible force." -Scientific
American
"As elegant as the experiments it describes." -The Wall Street Journal
Author Residence: Santa Fe, NM
Author Hometown: Fayetteville, AK
GEORGE JOHNSON writes regularly about science for The New York Times. He has
also written for Scientific American, The Atlantic, Time, Slate, and Wired, and his work
has been included in The Best American Science Writing. A former Alicia Patterson
fellow, he has received awards from PEN and the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and his books were twice finalists for the Rhone-Poulenc
Prize. He is a contributor to "Science Saturday" on bloggingheads.tv and blogs at "The
Cancer Chronicles" (http://santafereview.com/chronicle/).
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Claire of the Sea Light
Edwidge Danticat
From the best-selling author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, a stunning
new work of fiction that brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small town
where a little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, has gone missing.
Claire Limyè Lanmè--Claire of the Sea Light--is an enchanting child born into love
and tragedy in a seaside town in Haiti. Claire's mother died in childbirth, and on each of
her birthdays Claire is taken by her father, Nozias, to visit her mother's grave. Nozias
wonders if he should give away his young daughter to a local shopkeeper who lost a
child of her own, so he can give her a better life. But on the night of Claire's seventh
birthday, when he makes the wrenching decision to do so, she disappears. As Nozias
and others look for her, painful secrets and startling truths are unearthed among a host
of men and women whose stories connect to Claire, her parents, and the town itself.
Told with the piercing lyricism and economy of a fable, Claire of the Sea Light explores
what it means to be a parent, child, neighbor, lover, and friend, while indelibly revealing
the mysterious connections we share with the natural world and with one another, amid
the magic and heartbreak of ordinary life.
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TRACK RECORD: There are more than one million copies in print of Danticat's books, across
formats, including nearly 800,000 of Breath, Eyes, Memory; and almost 150,000 of her previous
novel, The Dew Breaker. Her most recent book was a memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, with nearly
100,000 copies in print. This is her first work of fiction in nine years--a return that will be warmly
greeted by her legions of fans as well as new readers.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM: Danticat is a critics' darling who's earned numerous awards, including a
MacArthur Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the first-ever Story Prize, and the
American Book Award; she has also been a finalist for the National Book Award and the
PEN/Faulkner Award.
AUDIENCE: Danticat's rendering of Ville Rose, Haiti, brings to mind the small-town web of
Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge; her fisherman Nozias recalls the sea-weary Santiago in
Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. This is a book destined for classic status.
Author Residence: Miami, FL
Author Hometown: Haiti
EDWIDGE DANTICAT is the author of numerous books, including Brother, I'm Dying,
which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a National Book Award
finalist; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National
Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and The
Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize.
The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she has been published in The New Yorker,
The New York Times, and elsewhere.
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F
Poems
Franz Wright
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a haunting collection of poems, graced by
his dark humor and wit as he comes closer to the end of his writing life.
In these riveting poems, Wright declares, "I've said all that / I had to say. / In writing. /
I signed my name. / It's death's move." As he faces cancer, the poet finds a new elation
and clarity on the page, handing over for our examination the ruinously flawed yet
kneeling-in-gratitude self he has become. "F" stands both for Franz, the poet/persona
who represents all of us on our baffling lifelong journeys, and for the alphabet, the
beautiful utility of our symbols. From "Entries of the Cell," the long central poem that
details the loneliness of the single soul, to short narrative prose poems and traditional
lyrics, Wright revels in the compensatory power of language as he observes the daylight
headlights following a hearse, or the wind, "blessing one by one the unlighted buds of
the backbent peach tree's unnoticed return." He is at his best in this ravishing collection
of next-to-last work.
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BISAC 3: Psychology - Movements - Existential
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FRANZ: His searing self-examination and wit in the face of death will bring his audience to their
feet. An untraditional, non academic, highly unorthodox presence, he remains a unique
commodity as a poet.
Praise for Franz Wright:
"Wright's scale of experience, like Berryman's, runs from the homicidal to the ecstatic...[His] best
forms of originality: deftness in patterning, startling metaphors, starkness of speech,
compression of both pain and joy, and a stoic self-possession within the agonies and penalties
of existence." --Helen Vendler, The New York Review of Books
"One of our handful of poets who has done the most to return poetry to a public art, popular and
profound at the same time...The poems unfold into miracles of uncontainable passion."
--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Author Residence: Waltham, MA
Franz Wright's most recent works include Kindertotenwald and Wheeling Motel. His
collection Walking to Martha's Vineyard was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2004, and he
has also been the recipient of two NEA grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Whiting
Fellowship, among other honors. Wright lives in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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