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Andy Catlett
Early Travels
WENDELL BERRY
A New York Times Editor’s Choice pick, Andy Catlett is a seamless continuation of Berry’s Port William series.
“Andy Catlett is tender, graceful, and evocative . . . a creative summation. Berry is now over seventy years old, and Andy Catlett: Early Travels represents all the experience, artistry, and considerable skill that he commands.”—Eclectica
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-164-6 | Trade Paper | $13.95 |
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Black Flies
A Novel
SHANNON BURKE
"Searing . . . Arresting." —Liesl Shillinger, New York Times Book Review
Black Flies is the story of paramedic Ollie Cross and his first year in the midst of New York City crack wars, unemployment, and neighborhoods burning to the ground as delinquent landlords cash in. A gripping novel from the ambulance-eye view of early '90s New York City.
SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-191-2 | Trade Paper Original | $14.95 |
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Guantanamo
DOROTHEA DIECKMANN
A modern classic prison novel, an implicit indictment of the Guantanamo gulag, and a novel of fierce moral and descriptive clarity. Characterized as “one of the best . . . German novels to be published since the dawn of the new millennium” by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, “this excellent new German novel” (Playboy) eschews polemic in favor of acute psychological examination—“Dieckmann’s close focus pays off, like a blow to the head” (Publishers Weekly).
SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-933368-54-2 | Trade Paper Original | $14.00
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Breakfast With Scot
A Novel
MICHAEL DOWNING
“Witty, poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, deftly insightful and full of people you wish you knew, plus a few you’re glad you don’t. Breakfast with Scot is a turn-of-the-millennium look at parenthood, families, relationships and who gets to wear eyeliner.” —Judith Long, Newsday
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-186-8 | Trade Paper | $13.95 |
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An Absolute Gentleman
A Novel
R. M. KINDER
Praised by the New York Times Book Review for the “extraordinary facility” with which she “gets into the psychological privacy” of her characters, Kinder harnesses her skills to delve into the mind of Arthur Blume, a gentleman and a serial killer. Brilliantly channeling voice, horror arises here as it does in life—in brief hints and disclosures that reveal the complex nature of our frighteningly human narrator.
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-388-2 | Trade Paper Original | $14.00 |
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The Last Novel
DAVID MARKSON
“Just when one had started mourning the demise of avant-garde and postmodern fiction . . . here comes David Markson’s latest ‘novel’ which is anything but a novel in any conventional sense of the term. Yet it manages to keep us enthralled . . . and even moved to tears at the end. And what a thrill it is to witness the performance, a real tour de force.”
—New York Times Book Review
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-143-1 | Trade Paper Original | $15.00 |
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Waterbaby
CHRIS MAZZA
“Shipwrecks, doomed lovers, family secrets, sea-babies, toilet-babies, and historical-reenactment sex are but a few of the facets of this deftly kaleidoscopic novel. Mazza shows us how, through resuscitating our pasts, and rescuing each other, we might just save ourselves.”
—Alex Shakar
“Chris Mazza pierces the heart of this big-hearted novel, the pitch-perfect tale of an all-American family in gothic and comic splendor.”
—Binnie Kirshenbaum
SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-933368-84-9 | Trade Paper Original | $14.95 |
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A Man of No Moon
A Novel
JENNY McPHEE
In this lush novel set against the backdrop of postwar Italy we meet Dante Sabato, who, after losing all the people he has loved, is “a man of no moon.” Then into his life step two American beauties, sisters Gladys and Prudence, two poles that will pull at and shift his dark obsessions. In masterful prose, McPhee’s storytelling mesmerizes on every page.
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-375-2 | Cloth | $24.00 |
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The Good Fairies of New York
MARTIN MILLAR
“For those of you who loved American Gods and find yourself wondering what to read next look no further. A group of disparate fairies from the British Isles get drunk and wind up unexpectedly in New York City, where they attach themselves to some 20-something slackers, a delusional bag lady and the ghost of Johnny Thunders.”
—Richie Rennicks, Malaprop’s bookstore
SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-933368-36-8 | Trade Paper Original | $13.95 |
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Landsman
A Novel
PETER CHARLES MELMAN
“People who loved Cold Mountain will find themselves drawn into Peter Melman’s spell. Just when you thought you could not learn anything new about the Civil War—or New Orleans—along comes this rich story of the Jewish Confederacy. This is an auspicious debut that heralds the arrival of a unique American voice.”
—Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird’s Daughter
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-367-7 | Cloth | $24.95 |
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How the Dead Dream
A Novel
LYDIA MILLET
“At once an involving character study and a stunning meditation on loss . . . Millet’s latest unfolds like a beautiful, disturbing dream.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred)
“[A] writer of encompassing empathy and imaginative lyricism, and a satirist of great wit and heart, takes readers on an intelligently conceived and devastating journey.”—Booklist (starred review)
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-184-4 | Cloth | $24.00 |
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Shame in the Blood
A Novel
TETSUO MIURA
TRANSLATED BY ANDREW DRIVER
Considered one of the finest love stories in modern Japanese literature, Shame in the Blood sold over a million copies when first published in Japan, won the Akutagawa Prize for Literature, and was made into a feature film directed by Obayashi Nobuhiko. Working in the tradition of the great Japanese novelists, Miura takes his place as one of his country’s greatest writers.
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-171-4 | Cloth | $24.95 |
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Strange as This Weather Has Been
A Novel
ANN PANCAKE
“Ann Pancake’s fine, ambitious first novel is about something simple: what it’s like to live below a mountaintop removal strip mine . . . Pancake . . . makes her point . . . in a powerful, sure-footed and haunting way.”
—New York Times Book Review
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-166-0 | Trade Paper Original | $15.95 |
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Bone Rattler
A Mystery of Colonial America
ELIOT PATTISON
From Edgar Award–winning author Eliot Pattison comes a compelling, multilayered novel rich in historical detail. Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and apparent suicides among fellow Scottish prisoners. A strange trail of clues leads Duncan into the bloody maw of the French and Indian War.
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-185-1 | Cloth | $26.00 |
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The Border of Truth
A Novel
VICTORIA REDEL
In what Kirkus called a “powerful look into the instinct to both keep and reveal family secrets,” the acclaimed author of Loverboy tells the stories of Sara Leader and her father, Richard. As he flees the Holocaust aboard the Quanza, we hear her tale of adopting a child in the present. Deftly interweaving their two journeys, Redel delivers a riveting novel that treads the line between heartbreak and healing.
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-366-0 | Cloth | $24.95 |
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Jamestown
MATTHEW SHARPE
Quills Finalist for General Fiction.
“[A]n absurd hybrid of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Walt Disney’s Pocahontas . . . packed with marvelous material, moving and funny and deeply provocative.” —Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World
“[W]ild, violent, mordantly hilarious.”—LA Times Book Review
SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-933368-60-3 | Cloth | $25.00 |
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Mercury Under My Tongue
A Novel
SYLVAIN TRUDEL
Mercury Under My Tongue is an unsentimental and arresting coming-of-age story about a seventeen-year-old boy dying of bone cancer. Avoiding both misty stoicism and made-for-TV bathos, Trudel’s novel exposes the fallible body as the humanizing factor that grounds spirited adolescent talk, creating a believable, likable protagonist while weaving a compelling lyrical story.
SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-933368-96-2 | Trade Paper Original | $13.95 |
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