You Are Not a Stranger Here

The nine stories in You Are Not a Stranger Here are set in Los Angeles, the Midwest, New England and England. What unites them is the refined writing and a raw emotional power that carries the reader past the surface of the subject and into the core of the characters' lives. There is grief, passion, loneliness, humour and longing in these stories, but ultimately the book sets off the shock of recognition that takes readers past the cliched language of human suffering and brings them to understand their own experience through the characters' lives.

Literature & Fiction

Adam Haslett

Contemporary

Vintage Books

Imagine Me Gone

Genre Fiction

Hamish Hamilton

From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a story of a family facing the ultimate question: How far will we go for those we love the most?When Margaret's fiance, John, is hospitalized for depression, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic, and the story of how, over the span of decades, his younger siblings -- the responsible Celia and the tightly controlled Alec -- struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled existence. Adam Haslett has given us something rare: an audiobook with the power to change how you see the most important people in your life.

Literary

Penguin Group

The publication of “Notes to My Biographer,” in Zoetrope: All-Story magazine introduced readers to the remarkable voice of Adam Haslett. Nominated as part of a National Magazine Award, broadcast on National Public Radio, performed at venues across the country, the story brought the author widespread recognition. Now, in his first book, Adam Haslett gives us nine richly varied stories, each suffused with intense emotion and written in a lyric prose alternatively lush and spare. You Are Not a Stranger Here carries its readers into the hearts and minds of people facing life’s most profound dilemmas. We meet an aging inventor still burning with ideas as he makes a final visit to his gay son. A psychiatrist’s encounter with a reluctant patient reveals a young doctor’s own needs and fears. An orphaned boy finds solace in a classmate’s violence. The return of an old lover disturbs the peace between a brother and sister who have lived together for decades. In settings that range from New England to Great Britain, from Los Angeles to the American West, the stories in this book treat what Faulkner called the old verities and truths of the heart: love and honor, pity and pride, compassion and sacrifice. They do so with heartbreaking precision and an often generous humor, drawing us past the surface of characters’ lives into the moments of decision and recognition that shape them irrevocably. Together these stories constitute a significant achievement by a powerful new writer.

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday

Today's Book Club printing of Haslett's critically praised book of short stories.

Anchor / Random House

Radio Silence is literature and rock &amp; roll. Each issue includes fiction, poetry, interviews, and essays, featuring an award winning cast of literary, musical, and illustrative talent. In addition to the print magazine, we produce online content and live events. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, we also give free copies of the magazine to high schools and libraries, and we use a portion of our revenue to buy books and musical instruments for kids. No high-quality magazine exists that presents rock music and literature side-by-side and explores their exhilarating relationship. Not until now.

Radio Silence

Adrian McKinty

F.Scott Fitzgerald

Ted Gioia

Jim White

DANIEL HANDLER

Rick Moody

Sam Lipsyte

Edna St. Vincent, Millay

Kim Addonizio

Blake Hazard

Jon Mooallem

Zach Rogue

A.E. Stallings

geoff-dyer

tobias-wolff

Union Atlantic

RECORDED BOOKS^

1st edn 1st printing signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original silver lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 304 (no other inscriptions).

Tuskar Rock Press (Atlantic Books)

Doug Fanning lives an apparently gilded existence. A Gulf war veteran turned banker at the vast investment bank Union Atlantic, he is wealthy, handsome and powerful the epitome of Wall Street success. Charlotte Graves lives in self-imposed exile deep in the forests of rural Massachusetts, stubbornly refusing to engage with a country she feels to be in morally bankrupt. When Fanning decides to build himself a sprawling mansion adjacent to her home, her isolation is threatened and she determines to evict him from his land and, if she can, his kind from her country. Union Atlantic is a deeply involving novel of the modern world a world in crisis, where individual humanity is pitted against the global marketplace, and we must decide what, in the end, we value most highly..

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Imagine Me Gone (Chinese Edition)

Nanhai Publishing Company

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