Random House New Releases - Fiction - Urban Life - Between May 18, 2012 and June 17, 2013.

Asi es como la pierdes by Junot Diaz

2013-06-04T00:30:00-05:00

Asi es como la pierdes Relatos
Written by Junot Diaz

Así es como la pierdes es un libro sobre mujeres que quitan el sentido y sobre el amor y el ardor. Y sobre la traición porque a veces traicionamos lo que más queremos, y también es un libro sobre el suplicio que pasamos después –los ruegos, las lágrimas, la sensación de estar atravesado un campo de minas– para intentar recuperar lo que perdimos. Aquello que creíamos que no queríamos, que no nos importaba. Estos cuentos nos enseñan las leyes fijas del amor: que la desesperanza de los padres, la acaban sufriendo los hijos, que lo que les hacemos a nuestros ex amantes nos lo harán inevitablemente a nosotros, y que aquello de “amar al prójimo como a uno mismo” no funciona bajo la influencia de Eros. Pero sobre todo, estos cuentos nos recuerdan que el ardor siempre triunfa sobre la experiencia, y que el amor, cuando llega de verdad, necesita más de una vida para desvanecerse.

Asi es como la pierdes by Junot Diaz

2013-06-04T00:30:00-05:00

Asi es como la pierdes Relatos
Written by Junot Diaz

In Between Days by Andrew Porter

2013-06-04T00:30:00-05:00

In Between Days
Written by Andrew Porter

“Andrew Porter is a born storyteller . . . He makes his own space instantly and invites you in. Hats off!” —Barry Hannah

From a commanding new voice in fiction comes a novel as perceptive as it is generous: a portrait of an American family trying to cope in our world today, a story of choices and doubts and transgressions.

The Hardings are teetering on the brink. Elson—once one of Houston’s most promising architects, who never quite lived up to expectations—is recently divorced from his wife of thirty years, Cadence. Their grown son, Richard, is still living at home: driving his mother’s minivan, working at a local coffee shop, resisting the career as a writer that beckons him. But when Chloe Harding gets kicked out of her East Coast college, for reasons she can’t explain to either her parents or her older brother, the Hardings’ lives start to unravel. Chloe returns to Houston, but the dangers set in motion back at school prove inescapable. Told with piercing insight, taut psychological suspense, and the wisdom of a true master of character, this is a novel about the vagaries of love and family, about betrayal and forgiveness, about the possibility and impossibility of coming home.

Taipei by Tao Lin

2013-06-04T00:30:00-05:00

Taipei
Written by Tao Lin

From one of this generation's most talked about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal, powerful, and moving novel about family, relationships, accelerating drug use, and the lingering possibility of death.

Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode--or lament--to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas. Along the way—whether on all night drives up the East Coast, shoplifting excursions in the South, book readings on the West Coast, or ill advised grocery runs in Ohio—movies are made with laptop cameras, massive amounts of drugs are ingested, and two young lovers come to learn what it means to share themselves completely. The result is a suspenseful meditation on memory, love, and what it means to be alive, young, and on the fringe in America, or anywhere else for that matter.

Taipei by Tao Lin

2013-06-04T00:30:00-05:00

Taipei
Written by Tao Lin

GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 9 by Toru Fujisawa

2013-05-28T00:30:00-05:00

GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 9
Written by Toru Fujisawa

Trade Paperback, 192 pages | Vertical | Comics & Graphic Novels - Manga - Media Tie-In; Comics & Graphic Novels - Graphic Novels - Crime & Mystery; Fiction - Urban Life | $10.95 | May 28, 2013 | 978-1-935654-63-6 (1-935654-63-2)

A Conspiracy of Friends by Alexander McCall Smith

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

A Conspiracy of Friends A Corduroy Mansions Novel (3)
Written by Alexander McCall Smith

CORDUROY MANSIONS - Book 3

In the Corduroy Mansions series of novels, set in London’s hip Pimlico neighborhood, we meet a cast of charming eccentrics, including perhaps the world’s most clever terrier, who make their home in a handsome, though slightly dilapidated, apartment block.

The universe seems to be conspiring against Freddie de la Hay and his neighbors at Corduroy Mansions, as they all struggle with their nearest and dearest in this captivating third installment of Alexander McCall Smith’s London series.

Berthea Snark is still at work on a scathing biography of her son, Oedipus, the only loathsome Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament; literary agents Rupert Porter and Barbara Ragg are in a showdown for first crack at the Autobiography of a Yeti manuscript; fine arts graduate Caroline Jarvis is exploring the blurry line between friendship and romance; and William French is worrying that his son, Eddie, will never leave home, even with Eddie’s new, wealthy girlfriend in the picture. But foremost in everyone’s mind is William’s faithful dog, Freddie de la Hay, who has disappeared while on a mystery tour of the Suffolk countryside. Will Freddie find his way home, or will Corduroy Mansions be left without its beloved mascot?

The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

The Woman Upstairs
Written by Claire Messud

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own.

Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a successful artist, mother and lover. She has instead become the “woman upstairs,” a reliable friend and neighbor always on the fringe of others’ achievements. Then into her life arrives the glamorous and cosmopolitan Shahids—her new student Reza Shahid, a child who enchants as if from a fairy tale, and his parents: Skandar, a dashing Lebanese professor who has come to Boston for a fellowship at Harvard, and Sirena, an effortlessly alluring Italian artist.

When Reza is attacked by schoolyard bullies, Nora is drawn deep into the complex world of the Shahid family; she finds herself falling in love with them, separately and together. Nora’s happiness explodes her boundaries, and she discovers in herself an unprecedented ferocity—one that puts her beliefs and her sense of self at stake.

Told with urgency, intimacy and piercing emotion, this brilliant novel of passion and artistic fulfillment explores the intensity, thrill—and the devastating cost—of embracing an authentic life.

The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

The Woman Upstairs
Written by Claire Messud

The Woman Upstairs by Cassandra Campbell

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

The Woman Upstairs
Written by Claire Messud
Read by Cassandra Campbell

The Woman Upstairs by Cassandra Campbell

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

The Woman Upstairs
Written by Claire Messud
Read by Cassandra Campbell

All That Is by James Salter

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

All That Is
Written by James Salter

An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II.

From his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. It is a time when publishing is still largely a private affair—a scattered family of small houses here and in Europe—a time of gatherings in fabled apartments and conversations that continue long into the night. In this world of dinners, deals, and literary careers, Bowman finds that he fits in perfectly. But despite his success, what eludes him is love. His first marriage goes bad, another fails to happen, and finally he meets a woman who enthralls him—before setting him on a course he could never have imagined for himself.

Romantic and haunting, All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. It is a dazzling, sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition, a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures of being alive.

All That Is by James Salter

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

All That Is
Written by James Salter

GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 8 by Toru Fujisawa

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 8
Written by Toru Fujisawa

Speedboat by Guy Trebay

2013-03-19T00:30:00-05:00

Speedboat
Written by Renata Adler
Afterword by Guy Trebay

When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent, curious, wry, the voice of Jen Fain, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban America. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers, professors, journalists, presidents, and debutantes fill these dispatches from the world as Jen finds it.

A touchstone over the years for writers as different as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Hardwick, Speedboat returns to enthrall a new generation of readers.

Speedboat by Guy Trebay

2013-03-19T00:30:00-05:00

Speedboat
Written by Renata Adler
Afterword by Guy Trebay

Por Fin En Casa by Julia Llewellyn

2013-03-05T00:30:00-05:00

Por Fin En Casa
Written by Julia Llewellyn

La vida de varios personajes se entrecruza inevitablemente cuando deciden vender su casa para cambiar de residencia… y de vida.

Arriésgate...
Grace ha puesto a la venta la mansión Chadlicote, una bella casona rural, para pagar las deudas familiares. Perder el hogar en el que creció ¿le romperá el corazón o será su última oportunidad de sacarle partido a la vida?
... mueve ficha
Phil está convencido de que Chadlicote es el lugar perfecto para empezar de nuevo con su familia. Pero Karen, su cosmopolita mujer, tiene poderosas razones para pensar todo lo contrario...
...cruza la puerta
Gemma y Alex están dispuestos a casi todo para convertirse en padres ,pero su coqueto loft es demasiado pequeño para albergar una familia. La céntrica casa de Karen es, decididamente, mucho mejor.
... y llega por fin
Nick, una emergente estrella del rock, siente que ha llegado la hora de plantar a su novia de la infancia y mudarse a un pisito de soltero como el que Gemma ha puesto a la venta. Además, ya le ha echado el ojo a Lucinda, una atractiva agente inmobiliaria...
a tu nueva casa
Donde la vida no volverá a ser igual.

The Commitments by Roddy Doyle

2013-02-06T00:30:00-05:00

The Commitments
Written by Roddy Doyle

This funky, rude, unpretentious first novel traces the short, funny, and furious career of a group of working-class Irish kids who form a band, The Commitments. Their mission: to bring soul to Dublin!

The Invisible City by Pete Hamill

2013-02-06T00:30:00-05:00

The Invisible City A New York Sketchbook
Written by Pete Hamill

In this collection of thirty-four sketches, the author captures the extraordinary range of people, experiences, places and feelings that is New York City -- the city behind the glamorous facade of Manhattan, inhabited by people who remember when this was "a great big wonderful town and they were young in its streets."

These sketches, many based on actual incidents, take as their subject the "smaller dramas" of mankind, the chance encounters and random episodes that inform one's life; often twisting suddenly, surprisingly, at the end, they convey strong feelings in little space. Using all of New York as his broad canvas, Pete Hamill recreates the baffling array of human emotions, from sadness and nostalgia to home and love, with affection, grace and wry understanding.

GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, Volume 7 by Tohru Fujisawa

2013-01-29T00:30:00-05:00

GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, Volume 7
Written by Tohru Fujisawa

Eikichi Onizuka is a 23-year-old ex-gang member. He is also the World's Greatest Teacher! As he began his quest to become the ultimate educator The young Onizuka discovers two principles of teaching - a social conscience and a sense of morality. So while he cannot use his strength on his kids his street smarts allow him to garner respect across the student body. As a homeroom teacher Onizuka focuses mainly on teaching life lessons, unfortunately his methods have created a stir among the PTA. To change the educational system as a whole, he embarks on a mission whereas he will individually mentor each student one-by-one, allowing each student to overcome their problems, whether they come from the classroom or from their home living rooms.

In this seventh volume of GTO 14 Days in Shonan, Eikichi efforts have been fruitful and now he believes he can finally relax in his hometown. Unfortunately, now trouble seems to have hunted him down. Two of his old students have located him and they have settled in amongst hischildren's home hideout. Old flames have been rekindled and Onizuka's lack of maturity will inspire some of his biggest admirers to enact their vengeance on the Great Teacher.

Random House New Releases - Fiction - Urban Life - Between May 18, 2012 and June 17, 2013.

Asi es como la pierdes by Junot Diaz

Asi es como la pierdes RelatosWritten by Junot Diaz

Asi es como la pierdes by Junot Diaz

Asi es como la pierdes RelatosWritten by Junot Diaz

In Between Days by Andrew Porter

In Between Days Written by Andrew Porter

Taipei by Tao Lin

Taipei Written by Tao Lin

Taipei by Tao Lin

Taipei Written by Tao Lin

GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 9 by Toru Fujisawa

GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 9 Written by Toru Fujisawa

A Conspiracy of Friends by Alexander McCall Smith

A Conspiracy of Friends A Corduroy Mansions Novel (3)Written by Alexander McCall Smith

The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

The Woman Upstairs Written by Claire Messud

The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

The Woman Upstairs Written by Claire Messud

The Woman Upstairs by Cassandra Campbell

The Woman Upstairs Written by Claire Messud Read by Cassandra Campbell

The Woman Upstairs by Cassandra Campbell

The Woman Upstairs Written by Claire Messud Read by Cassandra Campbell

All That Is by James Salter

All That Is Written by James Salter

All That Is by James Salter

All That Is Written by James Salter

GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 8 by Toru Fujisawa

GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 8 Written by Toru Fujisawa

Speedboat by Guy Trebay

Speedboat Written by Renata Adler Afterword by Guy Trebay

Speedboat by Guy Trebay

Speedboat Written by Renata Adler Afterword by Guy Trebay

Por Fin En Casa by Julia Llewellyn

Por Fin En Casa Written by Julia Llewellyn

The Commitments by Roddy Doyle

The Commitments Written by Roddy Doyle

The Invisible City by Pete Hamill

The Invisible City A New York SketchbookWritten by Pete Hamill

GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, Volume 7 by Tohru Fujisawa

GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, Volume 7 Written by Tohru Fujisawa

Asi es como la pierdes Relatos
Written by Junot Diaz

Asi es como la pierdes Relatos
Written by Junot Diaz

In Between Days
Written by Andrew Porter

Taipei
Written by Tao Lin

Taipei
Written by Tao Lin

GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 9
Written by Toru Fujisawa

A Conspiracy of Friends A Corduroy Mansions Novel (3)
Written by Alexander McCall Smith

The Woman Upstairs
Written by Claire Messud

The Woman Upstairs
Written by Claire Messud

The Woman Upstairs
Written by Claire Messud
Read by Cassandra Campbell

The Woman Upstairs
Written by Claire Messud
Read by Cassandra Campbell

All That Is
Written by James Salter

All That Is
Written by James Salter

GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 8
Written by Toru Fujisawa

Speedboat
Written by Renata Adler
Afterword by Guy Trebay

Speedboat
Written by Renata Adler
Afterword by Guy Trebay

Por Fin En Casa
Written by Julia Llewellyn

The Commitments
Written by Roddy Doyle

The Invisible City A New York Sketchbook
Written by Pete Hamill

GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, Volume 7
Written by Tohru Fujisawa