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The Investigation
A Novel
Written by Philippe Claudel
Translated by John Cullen
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $25.00
A wild, Kafka-esque romp through a dystopian landscape, probing thedarkly comic nature of the human condition.
The Investigator is a man quite like any other. He is balding, of medium build, dresses conservatively—in short, he is unremarkable in every way. He has been assigned to conduct an Investigation of a series... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Philippe Claudel
Translated by John Cullen
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $25.00
A wild, Kafka-esque romp through a dystopian landscape, probing thedarkly comic nature of the human condition.
The Investigator is a man quite like any other. He is balding, of medium build, dresses conservatively—in short, he is unremarkable in every way. He has been assigned to conduct an Investigation of a series... Read more >
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The Investigation
A Novel
Written by Philippe Claudel
Translated by John Cullen
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $12.99
A wild, Kafka-esque romp through a dystopian landscape, probing thedarkly comic nature of the human condition.
The Investigator is a man quite like any other. He is balding, of medium build, dresses conservatively—in short, he is unremarkable in every way. He has been assigned to conduct an Investigation of a series... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Philippe Claudel
Translated by John Cullen
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $12.99
A wild, Kafka-esque romp through a dystopian landscape, probing thedarkly comic nature of the human condition.
The Investigator is a man quite like any other. He is balding, of medium build, dresses conservatively—in short, he is unremarkable in every way. He has been assigned to conduct an Investigation of a series... Read more >
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Voyage to Kazohinia
Written by Sandor Szathmari
Translated by Inez Kemenes
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
A page-turning dystopian classic that stands alongside Brave New World and Gulliver's Travels.
Voyage to Kazohinia is a tour de force of twentieth-century literature--and it is here published in English for the first time outside of Hungary. Sándor Szathmári's comical novel chronicles the travels of a modern Gulliver on the eve of... Read more >
Written by Sandor Szathmari
Translated by Inez Kemenes
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
A page-turning dystopian classic that stands alongside Brave New World and Gulliver's Travels.
Voyage to Kazohinia is a tour de force of twentieth-century literature--and it is here published in English for the first time outside of Hungary. Sándor Szathmári's comical novel chronicles the travels of a modern Gulliver on the eve of... Read more >
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Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
Written by Mohammed Hanif
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $11.99
Written by Mohammed Hanif
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $11.99
From the author of the acclaimed A Case of Exploding Mangoes (“An insanely brilliant, satirical first novel . . . Belongs in a tradition that includes Catch-22”—The Washington Post), a subversively, often shockingly funny new novel set in steaming Karachi, about second chances, thwarted ambitions and love in the most unlikely...
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Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
Written by Mohammed Hanif
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $25.95
Written by Mohammed Hanif
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $25.95
From the author of the acclaimed A Case of Exploding Mangoes (“An insanely brilliant, satirical first novel . . . Belongs in a tradition that includes Catch-22”—The Washington Post), a subversively, often shockingly funny new novel set in steaming Karachi, about second chances, thwarted ambitions and love in the most unlikely...
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Drugs
A Novel
Written by J. R. Helton
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $15.95
A modern homage to William S. Burrough’s classic Junky, the new novel Drugs is the sparse, beautifully unassuming account of one man’s life of drug use.
As Robert Crumb, who illustrated the book jacket, says,
“J. R. Helton really speaks to me—starkly honest, darkly funny, acutely observant, and captures the... Read more >
A Novel
Written by J. R. Helton
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $15.95
A modern homage to William S. Burrough’s classic Junky, the new novel Drugs is the sparse, beautifully unassuming account of one man’s life of drug use.
As Robert Crumb, who illustrated the book jacket, says,
“J. R. Helton really speaks to me—starkly honest, darkly funny, acutely observant, and captures the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Drugs
A Novel
Written by J. R. Helton
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $15.95
Drugs is a story about Jake Stewart, a middle-class American from Texas who uses drugs and likes them. More importantly, he lives with them.
In author J. R. Helton's hilarious prose, Jake inimitably narrates the ups and downs of being a functional user of marijuana, cocaine, MDMA, alcohol, nicotine, brand name hydrocodone... Read more >
A Novel
Written by J. R. Helton
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $15.95
Drugs is a story about Jake Stewart, a middle-class American from Texas who uses drugs and likes them. More importantly, he lives with them.
In author J. R. Helton's hilarious prose, Jake inimitably narrates the ups and downs of being a functional user of marijuana, cocaine, MDMA, alcohol, nicotine, brand name hydrocodone... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Spoiler
Written by Annalena McAfee
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $25.95
A dark hyper-comedy set in London in the late 1990s during the last gasp of the newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave--about two female journalists at opposite ends of their life and work who become locked in a fierce tango of wills and whose lives are forever changed by... Read more >
Written by Annalena McAfee
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $25.95
A dark hyper-comedy set in London in the late 1990s during the last gasp of the newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave--about two female journalists at opposite ends of their life and work who become locked in a fierce tango of wills and whose lives are forever changed by... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Spoiler
Written by Annalena McAfee
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $11.99
A dark hyper-comedy set in London in the late 1990s during the last gasp of the newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave--about two female journalists at opposite ends of their life and work who become locked in a fierce tango of wills and whose lives are forever changed by... Read more >
Written by Annalena McAfee
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $11.99
A dark hyper-comedy set in London in the late 1990s during the last gasp of the newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave--about two female journalists at opposite ends of their life and work who become locked in a fierce tango of wills and whose lives are forever changed by... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Angels on Toast
Written by Dawn Powell
Format: eBook, 245 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $15.99
Everyone in Dawn Powell's New York satire Angels on Toast is on the make: Lou Donovan, the entrepeneur who ricochets frantically between his well-connected current wife, his disreputable ex, and his dangerously greedy mistress; Trina Kameray, the exotic adventuress whose job title is as phony as her accent; T.V. Truesdale, the man... Read more >
Written by Dawn Powell
Format: eBook, 245 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $15.99
Everyone in Dawn Powell's New York satire Angels on Toast is on the make: Lou Donovan, the entrepeneur who ricochets frantically between his well-connected current wife, his disreputable ex, and his dangerously greedy mistress; Trina Kameray, the exotic adventuress whose job title is as phony as her accent; T.V. Truesdale, the man... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Envy
Written by Yuri Olesha
Translated by Marian Schwartz
Introduction by Ken Kafuls
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 7, 2012
Price: $14.00
A New York Review Books Original
One of the delights of Russian literature, a tour de force that has been compared to the best of Nabokov and Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha’s novella Envy brings together cutting social satire, slapstick humor, and a wild visionary streak. Andrei is a model Soviet citizen, a... Read more >
Written by Yuri Olesha
Translated by Marian Schwartz
Introduction by Ken Kafuls
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 7, 2012
Price: $14.00
A New York Review Books Original
One of the delights of Russian literature, a tour de force that has been compared to the best of Nabokov and Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha’s novella Envy brings together cutting social satire, slapstick humor, and a wild visionary streak. Andrei is a model Soviet citizen, a... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Taft 2012
A Novel
Written by Jason Heller
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 31, 2012
Price: $14.95
HE'S BACK.
AND HE'S THE BIGGEST THING IN POLITICS.
He is the perfect presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hitting Republican résumé. Liberals love his peaceful, progressive practicality. The media can’t get enough of his larger-than-life personality. And all the American people love that he’s an honest, hard-working man who tells it like it... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Jason Heller
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 31, 2012
Price: $14.95
HE'S BACK.
AND HE'S THE BIGGEST THING IN POLITICS.
He is the perfect presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hitting Republican résumé. Liberals love his peaceful, progressive practicality. The media can’t get enough of his larger-than-life personality. And all the American people love that he’s an honest, hard-working man who tells it like it... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Taft 2012
A Novel
Written by Jason Heller
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2012
Price: $14.95
A Novel
Written by Jason Heller
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2012
Price: $14.95
HE'S BACK.
AND HE'S THE BIGGEST THING IN POLITICS.
Also available as an
eBook.
The Locusts Have No King
Written by Dawn Powell
Format: eBook, 303 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $17.99
NO ONE HAS SATIRIZED New York society quite like Dawn Powell, and in this classic novel she turns her sharp eye and stinging wit on the literary world, and "identifies every sort of publishing type with the patience of a pathologist removing organs for inspection." Frederick Olliver, an obscure historian and... Read more >
Written by Dawn Powell
Format: eBook, 303 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $17.99
NO ONE HAS SATIRIZED New York society quite like Dawn Powell, and in this classic novel she turns her sharp eye and stinging wit on the literary world, and "identifies every sort of publishing type with the patience of a pathologist removing organs for inspection." Frederick Olliver, an obscure historian and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
My Home is Far Away
Written by Dawn Powell
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $14.95
My Home is Far Away is the most precisely autobiographical of Powell’s fifteen novels. In this family chronicle set in early twentieth century Ohio, young Marcia Willard’s family struggles to keep up with the rapidly changing times, and Marcia endures disillusionment, cruelty, and betrayal to forge a survivor’s sense of independence... Read more >
Written by Dawn Powell
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $14.95
My Home is Far Away is the most precisely autobiographical of Powell’s fifteen novels. In this family chronicle set in early twentieth century Ohio, young Marcia Willard’s family struggles to keep up with the rapidly changing times, and Marcia endures disillusionment, cruelty, and betrayal to forge a survivor’s sense of independence... Read more >
A Time to Be Born
Written by Dawn Powell
Format: eBook, 327 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $14.95
Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America’ s entry into World War II, A Time To Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends. At the center of the story are a... Read more >
Written by Dawn Powell
Format: eBook, 327 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $14.95
Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America’ s entry into World War II, A Time To Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends. At the center of the story are a... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Turn, Magic Wheel
Written by Dawn Powell
Format: eBook, 228 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $14.95
Dennis Orphen, in writing a novel, has stolen the life story of his friend, Effie Callingham, the former wife of a famous, Hemingway-like novelist, Andrew Callingham. Orphen’s betrayal is not the only one, nor the worst one, in this hilarious satire of the New York literary scene. (Powell personally considered this... Read more >
Written by Dawn Powell
Format: eBook, 228 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $14.95
Dennis Orphen, in writing a novel, has stolen the life story of his friend, Effie Callingham, the former wife of a famous, Hemingway-like novelist, Andrew Callingham. Orphen’s betrayal is not the only one, nor the worst one, in this hilarious satire of the New York literary scene. (Powell personally considered this... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Wicked Pavilion
Written by Dawn Powell
Format: eBook, 281 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $14.95
The “Wicked Pavilion” of the title is the Café Julien, where everybody who is anybody goes to recover from failed love affairs and to pursue new ones, to cadge money, to hatch plots, and to puncture one another’s reputation. Dennis Orphen, the writer from Dawn Powell’s Turn, Magic Wheel, makes an... Read more >
Written by Dawn Powell
Format: eBook, 281 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $14.95
The “Wicked Pavilion” of the title is the Café Julien, where everybody who is anybody goes to recover from failed love affairs and to pursue new ones, to cadge money, to hatch plots, and to puncture one another’s reputation. Dennis Orphen, the writer from Dawn Powell’s Turn, Magic Wheel, makes an... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Damned
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $24.95
“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and... Read more >
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $24.95
“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Damned
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $11.99
“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and... Read more >
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $11.99
“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Little Girl and the Cigarette
Written by Benoit Duteurtre
Translated by Charlotte Mandell
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $15.95
Written by Benoit Duteurtre
Translated by Charlotte Mandell
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $15.95
A wicked satire about the chaos that results when there's a rule for everything.
In the over-legislated world of this outrageous black comedy, a death-row inmate becomes a darling of the media-- and the tobacco conglomerates--after he demands his right to a final cigarette . . . in a smoke-free prison. Meanwhile...
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Amerika: The Missing Person
A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text
Written by Franz Kafka
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Price: $14.00
Kafka began writing what he had entitled Der Verschollene (The Missing Person) in 1912 and wrote the last completed chapter in 1914. But it wasn’t until 1927, three years after his death, that Max Brod, Kafka’s friend and literary executor, edited the unfinished manuscript and published it as Amerika. Kafka’s first... Read more >
A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text
Written by Franz Kafka
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Price: $14.00
Kafka began writing what he had entitled Der Verschollene (The Missing Person) in 1912 and wrote the last completed chapter in 1914. But it wasn’t until 1927, three years after his death, that Max Brod, Kafka’s friend and literary executor, edited the unfinished manuscript and published it as Amerika. Kafka’s first... Read more >
The Vices
Written by Lawrence Douglas
Format: eBook, 356 pages
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Price: $12.99
Oliver Vice, forty-one, prominent philosopher, scholar, and art collector, is missing and presumed dead, over the side of Queen Mary 2.Troubled by his friend’s possible suicide, the unnamed narrator of Lawrence Douglas’ new novel launches an all-consuming investigation into Vice’s life history. Douglas, moving backward through time, tells a mordantly humorous... Read more >
Written by Lawrence Douglas
Format: eBook, 356 pages
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Price: $12.99
Oliver Vice, forty-one, prominent philosopher, scholar, and art collector, is missing and presumed dead, over the side of Queen Mary 2.Troubled by his friend’s possible suicide, the unnamed narrator of Lawrence Douglas’ new novel launches an all-consuming investigation into Vice’s life history. Douglas, moving backward through time, tells a mordantly humorous... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Vices
Written by Lawrence Douglas
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Price: $15.95
Oliver Vice, forty-one, prominent philosopher, scholar, and art collector, is missing and presumed dead, over the side of Queen Mary 2.Troubled by his friend’s possible suicide, the unnamed narrator of Lawrence Douglas’ new novel launches an all-consuming investigation into Vice’s life history. Douglas, moving backward through time, tells a mordantly humorous... Read more >
Written by Lawrence Douglas
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Price: $15.95
Oliver Vice, forty-one, prominent philosopher, scholar, and art collector, is missing and presumed dead, over the side of Queen Mary 2.Troubled by his friend’s possible suicide, the unnamed narrator of Lawrence Douglas’ new novel launches an all-consuming investigation into Vice’s life history. Douglas, moving backward through time, tells a mordantly humorous... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Tell-All
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2011
Price: $14.95
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2011
Price: $14.95
For decades Hazie Coogan has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine "Miss Kathie" Kenton, veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie’s heart—and boudoir. Soon, Hazie discovers that this bounder has already...
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