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Eastman Was Here

ALEX GILVARRY · Viking
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

An ambitious new novel set in the literary world of 1970s New York, following a washed-up writer in an errant quest to pick up the pieces of his life. The year is 1973, and Alan Eastman, a public intellectual, accidental cultural critic, washed-up war journalist, husband, and philanderer;...
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The Last to See Me: A Novel

M Dressler · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Lauren Oliver and Alice Sebold, a sophisticated, literary ghost story that reminds us the past is never, ever forgotten.In a small logging town in northern California, young Emma Rose Finnis was born and died. Now, no one remembers her hardworking life and her grand dreams--but...
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The History of Bees: A Novel

Maja Lunde · Touchstone
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees - and to their children and one another - against the backdrop...
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Letters to His Neighbor

MARCEL PROUST · New Directions
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Brilliantly translated by Lydia Davis, here are Proust's tormented, touching, and often very funny letters to his noisy neighbor.Marcel Proust's genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor....
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Midwinter Break: A Novel

BERNARD MACLAVERTY · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Colm Toíbín, a moving portrait of a marriage in crisis and a couple's search for salvation.A retired couple, Gerry and Stella, travel to Amsterdam for a holiday to refresh the senses, do some sightseeing, and generally take stock of their lives. Their relationship seems...
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Stay with Me: A novel

Ayobami Adebayo · Knopf
Pages: 257
Format: Hardcover

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The Red-Haired Woman: A novel

Orhan Pamuk · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain....
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Young Jane Young: A Novel

Gabrielle Zevin · Algonquin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of the beloved The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry comes another perfect fable for our times--a story about women, choices, and recovering from past mistakes.Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes...
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The Shape of Bones

DANIEL GALERA · Penguin Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A coming of age tale of brutal beauty and disarming tenderness from one of Brazil's most exciting young novelists, an author writing in the footsteps of "Roberto Bolaño, Jim Harrison, the Coen brothers and...Denis Johnson" (The New York Times) You know there's good...
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Things That Happened Before the Earthquake: A Novel

Chiara Barzini · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

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