-Titulo Original : Blue Nights-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: About the Author Joan Didion was born in Sacramento in 1934 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. After graduation, Didion moved to New York and began working for Vogue, which led to her career as a journalist and writer. Didion published her first novel, Run River, in 1963. Didions other novels include A Book of Common Prayer (1977), Democracy (1984), and The Last Thing He Wanted (1996). Didions first volume of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, was published in 1968, and her second, The White Album, was published in 1979. Her nonfiction works include Salvador (1983), Miami (1987), After Henry (1992), Political Fictions (2001), Where I Was From (2003), We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live (2006), Blue Nights (2011), South and West (2017) and Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021). Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. In 2005, Didion was awarded the American Academy of Arts & Letters Gold Medal in Criticism and Belles Letters. In 2007, she was awarded the National Book Foundations Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A portion of National Book Foundation citation read: An incisive observer of American politics and culture for more than forty-five years, Didions distinctive blend of spare, elegant prose and fierce intelligence has earned her books a place in the canon of American literature as well as the admiration of generations of writers and journalists. In 2013, she was awarded a National Medal of Arts and Humanities by President Barack Obama, and the PEN Center USAs Lifetime Achievement Award. Didion said of her writing: I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at, what I see and what it means. She died in December 2021. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I MeanRichly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an intensely personal and moving account of her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness and growing old.As she reflects on her daughter’s life and on her role as a parent, Didion grapples with the candid questions that all parents face, and contemplates her age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights-the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning”-like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profound. Review A New York Times Notable Book“Incantatory.... A beautiful condolence note to humanity about some of the painful realities of the human condition.” -The Washington Post “Heartbreaking.... A searing inquiry into loss and a melancholy mediation on mortality and time.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Joan Didion is a brilliant observer, a powerful thinker, a writer whose work has been central to the times in which she has lived. Blue Nights continues her legacy.” -The Boston Globe“Exemplary...provocative.... [Didion] comes fully to realize, and to face squarely, the dismaying fact that against life’s worst onslaughts nothing avails, not even art; especially not art.” -John Banville, The New York Times Book Review “A beautiful, soaring, polyphonic eulogy.... What appears on the surface to be an elegantly, intelligently, deeply felt, precisely written story of the loss of a beloved child is actually an elegantly, intelligently, deeply felt, precisely written glimpse into the abyss, a book that forces us to understand, to admit, that there can be no preparation for tragedy, no protection from it, and so, finally, no consolation.” -The New York Review of Books “Profou...

-Titulo Original : My Life In France-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Julias story of her transformative years in France in her own words is captivating ... her marvelously distinctive voice is present on every page.” (San Francisco Chronicle). Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, Julia Child was not always a master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever with her newfound passion for cooking and teaching. Julia’s unforgettable story-struggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly fifty-year long marriage that took the Childs across the globe-unfolds with the spirit so key to Julia’s success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of America’s most endearing personalities. Review “A delight.” -The New York Times“What a joy!” -The Washington Post“Endlessly engaging.” -The Philadelphia Inquirer“Inspiring.” -Entertainment Weekly“Delighful and ebulliently written. . . . Her joy just about jumps off the books pages.” -Christian Science Monitor“Lively, infectious. . . . Her elegant but unfussy prose pulls the reader into her stories.” -Chicago Sun-Times“Captivating. . . . Her marvelously distinctive voice is present on every page.” -San Francisco Chronicle About the Author Julia Child was born in Pasadena, California. She graduated from Smith College and worked for the OSS during World War II; afterward she lived in Paris, studied at the Cordon Bleu, and taught cooking with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, with whom she wrote the first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961). In 1963, Boston’s WGBH launched The French Chef television series, which made Julia Child a national celebrity, earning her the Peabody Award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966. Several public television shows and numerous cookbooks followed. She died in 2004.Alex Prudhomme is Julia Childs great-nephew and the coauthor of her autobiography, My Life in France, which was adapted into the movie Julie & Julia. He is also the author of The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century, Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know, and The Cell Game, and he is the coauthor (with Michael Cherkasky) of Forewarned: Why the Government Is Failing to Protect Us--and What We Must Do to Protect Ourselves. Prudhommes journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, and People. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Foreword_In August 2004, Julia Child and I sat in her small, lush garden in Montecito, California, talking about her life. She was thin and a bit stooped, but more vigorous than she’d been in weeks. We were in the midst of writing this book together. When I asked her what she remembered about Paris in the 1950s, she recalled that she had learned to cook everything from snails to wild boar at the Cordon Bleu; that marketing in France had taught her the value of “les human relations”; she lamented that in her day the American housewife had to juggle cooking the soup and boiling the diapers-adding, “if she mixed the two together, imagine what a lovely combination that would make!”The idea for My Life in France had been gestating since 1969, when her husband, Paul, sifted through hundreds of letters that he and Julia had written his twin brother, Charles Child (my grandfather), from France in 1948-1954. Paul suggested creating a book from the letters about their favorite, formative years together. But for one reason or another, the book never got written. Paul died in 1994, aged ninety-two....

-Titulo Original : Let Me Tell You What I Mean (vintage International)-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection that reveals what would become Joan Didions subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. Didion’s remarkable, five decades-long career as a journalist, essayist, novelist, and screen writer has earned her a prominent place in the American literary canon, and the twelve early pieces collected here underscore her singularity.-O Magazine With a forward by Hilton Als, these pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure. They showcase Joan Didions incisive reporting, her empathetic gaze, and her role as an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time (The New York Times Book Review). Here, Didion touches on topics ranging from newspapers (the problem is not so much whether one trusts the news as to whether one finds it), to the fantasy of San Simeon, to not getting into Stanford. In Why I Write, Didion ponders the act of writing: I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at, what I see and what it means. From her admiration for Hemingways sentences to her acknowledgment that Martha Stewarts story is one that has historically encouraged women in this country, even as it has threatened men, these essays are acutely and brilliantly observed. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient. Review A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, Vogue, USA Today, Town & Country, LitHub *A Most Anticipated Book from Vogue, TIME, Bustle, The New York Times, and many more.Didion’s remarkable, five decades-long career as a journalist, essayist, novelist, and screen writer has earned her a prominent place in the American literary canon, and the twelve early pieces collected here underscore her singularity. Her musings-whether contemplating “pretty” Nancy Reagan living out her “middle-class American woman’s daydream circa 1948” or the power of Ernest Hemingway’s pen-are all unmistakably Didionesque. There will never be another quite like her. -O Magazine“[These] essays are at once funny and touching, roving and no-nonsense. They are about humiliation and about notions of rightness. About mythmaking, fiction writing, her “failed” intellectualism and the syntactic insides of Hemingway’s craft. . . . From the outset Didion’s nonfiction has shown no obligation to the whopping epiphanic. Realizations occur, but she relates them without splendor, as if she’s extracting a tincture. . . . Reading newly arranged Didion [. . .] feels like reaching that dip in a swimming pool where the shallow end suddenly becomes the deep end. The bottom drops out, and you are forced to kick a little, to tread. This is why we return to her work again and again. But Didion cares less for timelessness than for the evanescence of language, mistrusting pink icing or anything else that might launder truth. Undergirding the entire collection is a regard for ephemerality. Of glory, and of the era when fashion photographers called their spaces “the studio.” Of fairy tales and failed attempts at quietude, of a child’s memory soup of imagination. . . . Didion’s pen is like a periscope onto the creative mind - and, as this collection demonstrates, it always has been. These essays offer a direct line to what’s in the offing.” --Durga Chew-Bose, The New York Times Book Review “The book traces her journey and development as a writer of magisterial (a word she would never use) command and finely measured style. She brought new eyes to the American scene, whether charting the disconnect between traditional and hippie media or with piercing observations of boldfaced names including Ernest Hemingway, Nancy Reagan and M...

-Titulo Original : Home Cooking (vintage Contemporaries)-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, Home Cooking is Laurie Colwin’s cookbook manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining.“As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking.” -The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the humble hotplate of her one-room apartment to the crowded kitchens of bustling parties, Colwin regales us with tales of meals gone both magnificently well and disastrously wrong. Hilarious, personal, and full of Colwin’s hard-won expertise, Home Cooking will speak to the heart of any amateur cook, professional chef, or food lover. Review “Celebrates a life devoted to food, with chapters on how to cook a meal for several hundred people, how to prepare a gourmet dinner with eggplant in your bathtub, and how to make the best fried chicken in the world.” -Santa Fe New Mexican “The joy of reading Colwin’s food writing is that she is doing much more than teaching you how to function in front of a stove. . . . Her brusque kitchen style is really a sly way of urging you to trust the strength of your convictions.” -Rachel Syme, The New Yorker“As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking.” -The New York Times Book ReviewEverything food writing should be: funny, profound, inspiring and unaffected. -Nigella Lawson“The one true kitchen friend. -The Washington Post “Laurie Colwins food thoughts are like phone calls from a dear friend.” -The New York Times “A delightful tribute to food, friends and kitchen memories.... This charmer is as irresistible as homemade shortbread.” -San Diego Union-Tribune “A very funny book. Funny enough to make you giggle out loud.” -Newsday“[Laurie Colwin] is a home cook, like you and me, whose charm and lack of pretension make her wonderfully human and a welcome companion.” -Chicago Tribune “I decided to lean back and trust Ms. Colwin when she revealed that ‘I am never on a diet regime I cannot be talked out of.’” -Ann Banks, The New York Times Book Review “Delightful. . . . [Colwin] is funny, and for some reason funny stories about food are as funny as things can get.” -St. Petersburg Times “Cozy, unpretentious good sense . . . characterizes all her food writing.” -The New York Times “I have in my kitchen a book called Home Cooking. And, in between following the recipes for Extremely Easy Beef Stew, or Estelle Colwin Snellenberg’s Potato Pancakes, I would frequently sit down on a little stool in my kitchen and read through one of the essays in that book. I never read through The Joy of Cooking, and I can read the Silver Palate Cookbook standing up, but I always sat down to read these.” -Anna Quindlen “Laurie Colwin is both sensible and sensitive when writing about food, and [her] prose makes me laugh, cry and feel hungry all at the same time.” -The Baltimore Sun “Reading the essays of Laurie Colwin is a bit like eating comfort food: warm, familiar and good for the soul.” -Hartford Courant “A warm, personal remembrance of the foods Colwin ate as a child and later served to friends and family.” -Seattle Post-Intelligencer “[Colwin] is a beacon of hope. For beginning cooks, Home Cooking is a grand consciousness and/or confidence-raiser.” -The Oregonian “Like a classic dish, [Colwin’s] writing is magic in its simplicity.” -Charlotte Observer “Wry and funny.” -Dallas Morning News “Charming and humorous.” -USA Today “Enthralling, but all too short. The only thing to do [is] reread it. And then turn to her novels.” -Buffalo News About the Author Laurie Colwin is the author of five novels-Happy All the Time; Family Happiness; Goodbye Without Leaving; A Big Storm Knocked It Over;and Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object-three collections of short stories-Passion and Affect; The Lone Pilgrim; and Another Marvelous Thing-and two collections of essays, Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. Colwin died in 1992. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserv...

-Titulo Original : South And West From A Notebook (vintage International)-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: NATIONAL BESTSELLER * “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” -Harper’s Bazaar Joan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always kept notebooks-of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. Here are two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape.“Notes on the South” traces a road trip that she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, took through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Her acute observations about the small towns they pass through, her interviews with local figures, and their preoccupation with race, class, and heritage suggest a South largely unchanged today. “California Notes” began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial. Though Didion never wrote the piece, the time she spent watching the trial in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the West and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here we not only see Didion’s signature irony and imagination in play, we’re also granted an illuminating glimpse into her mind and process. Review One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Harpers Bazaar“Vintage Didion. . . . Remind[s] us of her brilliance as a stylist, social commentator and observer.” -The Washington Post“Elegant, eerily prescient. . . . At once informal and immediate, magisterial and indelible.” -Elle “Fascinating. . . . Shine[s] with her trademark ability to capture mood and place.” -The New York Times “In these two pieces, Didion isn’t so much seeing the country as she is x-raying it, cataloging the presenting symptoms of the ailing republic. . . . [This] volume will persist in the memory.” -The Village Voice “Reveals the author at her most fascinatingly unfiltered. . . . Captures the thrill of a writer discovering her richest subject: the American mythologies that governed her own romantic girlhood.” -Vogue “Intimate, yet preternaturally detached, as though her matchless ear bears witness from the beyond.” -The Boston Globe “Exemplif[ies] Didion’s signature brand of reportorial haiku-her pitiless camera eye, razor-sharp wit and telling techniques of self-deprecation that only bring the reader . . . further along for the ride.” -San Francisco Chronicle “Deeply personal. . . . Offer[s] new insight into a formative time in the authors life.” -Rolling Stone “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest . . . her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” -Harper’s Bazaar “Vintage Didion, idiosyncratic and tantalizingly self-revealing.” -USA Today “This is the charm of South and West: while its political observations are both prescient and canny, the greater pleasure is the view into her mind at work. For a writer who has never shied away from exploring the personal in her writing, Didions notebooks might be her most vulnerable work yet.” -Bomb “Compelling . . . rooted utterly in a past now all but lost to us, while also incredibly timely and relevant.” -Los Angeles Review of Books “If this is how Didions notebooks read, lets have them all. . . . The form suits her particular brilliance: the ability to sequence arresting sentences, crammed with observation and insight, and let them generate their own momentum.” -Minneapolis Star Tribune “A marvelous time capsule. . . . Fascinating documents spiked with virtuosic turns. . . . Cast[s] light backward and forward on her work, illuminating her reportorial process and the themes she would develop in later novels and nonfiction.” -Vulture “[Didion’s] idiosyncratic genius is in fu...

-Titulo Original : Where I Was From-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: From the Inside Flap In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the states ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethics often tenuous relationship to reality.Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores Californias romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and her book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal. From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: In this arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline” (The Baltimore Sun), Didion-a native Californian-reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours.Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to Californias ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal. Review “Compelling. . . . A love song to the place where her family has lived for generations, but a love song full of questions and doubts.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times“An arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline. . . . Exquisitely crafted, as subtle as the slow waking from a pleasant dream.” -The Baltimore Sun“One beautiful sentence follows another. . . . This is a book about history, about what we learn from genealogy and history books, novels and old newspapers, and how we square all that with what we see around us. . . . Didion has remained a clearheaded and original writer all her long life.” -Malcolm Jones, Newsweek“Succinct and quite beautiful. . . . Its rewards are many. If anyone needs further confirmation that she is one of the finest essayists currently at work, this book will nail it.” -The Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer“One of the most recognizable-and brilliant-literary styles to emerge in America during the past four decades. . . . [Didion is] a great American writer.” -The New York Times Book Review“Didion has written a brave little book . . . a fine book that must be read with as much care it was written. . . . [Didion is] an implacably honest writer.” -Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post“Valediction and elegy alike, Where I Was From is a storm-tossed book. Its history is dense . . . its prose sharp, direct and chiseled.” -The Los Angeles Times Book Review“Eloquent, spare, and rendered without sentiment.” -Boston Globe“[Didion is] a latter-day Walt Whitman, singing of America by singing of herself.” -Slate “Joan Didion is a brilliant explicator of the American political and cultural consciousness.” -Rocky Mountain News“Many of us have tried, and failed, to master [Didion’s] gift for the single ordinary deflating word, the word that spins an otherwise flat sentence through five degrees of irony. But her sentences could only be hers.” -Michael Gorra, Chicago Tribune“[A] fascinating, informative, obscure-and yes, moving-little book.” -San Jose Mercury News“A bracing mix of personal and public history.” -Benjamin Kunkel, Newsday“Odd, elliptical and ultimately revealing. . . . Didion discovers the...

-Titulo Original : The Diana Chronicles-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: Review The best book on Diana. -The New YorkerTina Brown knows this world much better than many who inhabit it. -The New York TimesThe books greatest attraction ... is its sheer wealth of detail, by turns salacious, vinegary, depressing, and hilarious...a psychodrama, a morality play, a pageant of recklessness and revenge, of passion and pity, of loneliness and looniness. -The Wall Street JournalPeels many layers of ... mystery away and even makes the old horror stories of [Dianas] life seem fresh ... Brown gives them new vigor, with insights based on her own exhaustive research and a wickedly canny, celebrity-trained eye for detail. -Boston GlobeThe Diana Chronicles ... has enough of Dianas hairpin personality turns, emotional drops, and gleeful summits to be a Disneyland thrill ride ... Brown reminds us of her instantly intimate, magical presence. -Los Angeles Times“Amazingly detailed ... Browns jam-packed, juicy roll in the high cotton is ... a walloping good read.” -Washington Post “[An] insanely readable and improbably profound new biography.” -Chicago Tribune Intensely well researched and an unputdownable read. -Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren Its Dianamite! -Tom Wolfe [Tina Brown] tells the story fluently, with engrossing detail on every page, and with the mastery of tone that made her Tatler famous for being popular with the people it was laughing at. -The New Yorker #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. This insanely readable and improbably profound biography (Chicago Tribune) reveals the truth as only famed journalist Tina Brown could tell it. The best book on Diana. -The New YorkerWas she “the people’s princess,” who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she manipulative and media-savvy and nearly brought down the monarchy? Tina Brown, former Editor-in-Chief of Tatler, England’s glossiest gossip magazine; Vanity Fair; and The New Yorker gives us the answers. Tina knew Diana personally and has far-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen herself.In The Diana Chronicles, you will meet a formidable female cast and understand as never before the society that shaped them: Dianas sexually charged mother, her scheming grandmother, the stepmother she hated but finally came to terms with, and bad-girl Fergie, her sister-in-law, who concealed wounds of her own. Most formidable of them all was her mother-in-law, the Queen, whose admiration Diana sought till the day she died. Add Camilla Parker-Bowles, the ultimate other woman into this combustible mix, and its no wonder that Diana broke out of her royal cage into celebrity culture, where she found her own power and used it to devastating effect. About the Author Tina Brown is an award-winning writer, the former editor in chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, and the founder of The Daily Beast and of the live event platform Women in the World. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Diana Chronicles, and in 2017 she published The Vanity Fair Diaries, chosen as one of the best books of the year by Time, People, The Guardian, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, and Vogue. In 2000 she was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II for her services to journalism. She lives in New York City. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter TwentyThe Last Picture ShowIs she an angel?-Helena Ussova, aged seven, land-mine victim in Angola, January 1997Diana never looked better than in the days after her divorce. Divestment was the name of the game, in her life and in her looks. The downsizing started with her Kensington Palace staff, which she reduced to cleaner, cook, and dresser. The assiduous Paul Burrell became maitre d’ of her private life, combining the roles of P.A., man Friday, driver, delivery boy, con dant, and c...

-Titulo Original : No Name In The Street-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: About the Author James Baldwin was born in 1924 and educated in New York. He is the author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, Giovannis Room, Nobody Knows My Name, Another Country, and The Fire Next Time. Among the awards he received are a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship, and a Ford Foundation grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1986. Baldwin died in 1987. An extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that displays James Baldwins fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works, and powerfully speaks to contemporary conversations around racism.It contains truth that cannot be denied.” - The Atlantic MonthlyIn this stunningly personal document, James Baldwin remembers in vivid details the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness and the later events that scored his heart with pain-the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood, and his retum to the American South to confront a violent America face-to-face. Review “More eloquent than W. E. B. DuBois, more penetrating than Richard Wright.... It contains truth that cannot be denied.” -The Atlantic Monthly“Characteristically beautiful.... He has not himself lost access to the sources of his being-which is what makes him read and awaited by perhaps a wider range of people than any other major American writer.” -The Nation Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. That is a good idea, I heard my mother say. She was staring at a wad of black velvet, which she held in her hand, and she carefully placed this bit of cloth in a closet. We can guess how old I must have been from the fact that for years afterward I thought that an idea was a piece of black velvet.Much, much, much has been blotted out, coming back only lately in bewildering and untrustworthy flashes. I must have been about five, I should think, when I made my connection between ideas and velvet, but I may have been younger; this may have been the same year that my father had me circumcised, a terrifying event which I scarcely remember at all; or I may think I was five because I remember tugging at my mothers skirts once and watching her face while she was telling someone else that she was twenty-seven. This meant, for me, that she was virtually in the grave already, and I tugged a little harder at her skirts. I already knew, for some reason, or had given myself some reason to believe, that she had been twenty-two when I was born. And, though I cant count today, I could count when I was little.I was the only child in the house--or houses--for a while, a halcyon period which memory has quite repudiated; and if I remember myself as tugging at my mothers skirts and staring up into her face, it was because I was so terrified of the man we called my father; who did not arrive on my scene, really, until I was more than two years old. I have written both too much and too little about this man, whom I did not understand till he was past Understanding. in my first memory of him, he is standing in the kitchen, drying the dishes. My mother had dressed me to go out, she is taking me someplace, and it must be winter, because I am wearing, in my memory, one of those cloth hats with a kind of visor, which button under the chin--a Lindbergh hat, I think. I am apparently in my mothers arms, for I am staring at my father over my mothers shoulder, we are near the door; and my father smiles. This may be a memory, I think it is, but it may be a fantasy. One of the very last times I saw my father on his feet, I was staring at him over my mothers shoulder--she had come rushing into the room to separate us--and mx father was not smiling and neither was I.His mother, Barbara, lived in our house, and she ...

-Titulo Original : Tokyo Vice An American Reporter On The Police Beat In Japan-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist who pulls the curtain back on ... [an] element of Japanese society that few Westerners ever see (San Francisco Examiner). Now a Max Original Series on HBO Max Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the yakuza. But when his final scoop exposed a scandal that reverberated all the way from the neon soaked streets of Tokyo to the polished Halls of the FBI and resulted in a death threat for him and his family, Adelstein decided to step down. Then, he fought back. In Tokyo Vice he delivers an unprecedented look at Japanese culture and searing memoir about his rise from cub reporter to seasoned journalist with a price on his head. Review “Groundbreaking reporting on the yakuza. . . . Adelstein shares juicy, salty, and occasionally funny anecdotes, but many are frightening. . . . Adelstein doesn’t lack for self-confidence . . . but beneath the bravado are a big heart and a relentless drive for justice.”--The Boston Globe “Gripping. . . . [Adelstein’s] vividly detailed account of investigations into the shadowy side of Japan shows him to be more enterprising, determined and crazy than most. . . . In some of the freshest pages of the book, our unlikely hero tells us about his initiation into the seamy, tough-guy Japan beneath the public courtesies,. . . . Adelstein builds his stories with as much surprise and grit as any Al Pacino or Mark Wahlberg movie, blurring the lines between the cops, the crooks and even the journalists. . . . Tokyo Vice is often so snappy and quotable that it sounds as if it were a treatment for a Scorsese movie set in Queens. Yet the facts beneath the noirish lines are assembled with what looks to be ferocious diligence and resourcefulness. For even as he is getting slapped around by thugs and placed under police protection, Adelstein never loses his gift for crisp storytelling and an unexpectedly earnest eagerness to try to rescue the damned.”-Pico Iyer, TimeA journalists memoir unlike any Ive ever read.--Dave Davies, Fresh Air “Marvelous. . . . Tokyo Vice offers a fascinating glimpse into Japan’s end-of-last-century newspaper culture as seen from a gaijin’s perspective. It’s filled with startling anecdotes and revelations. . . . Adelstein writes of his quest for scoops with sardonic wit, and his snappy style mixes the tropes of detective fiction with the broader perspective of David Simon’s books as he makes a careful account of his journalistic wins and losses. . . . The author’s gallows humor bleeds into even darker, more serious hues once Adelstein starts covering the Japanese mafia. . . . Astonishingly proves that no matter how weird and perverse Japan may seem in fiction, the real thing never fails to exceed our most violent expectations.”-Sarah Weinman, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind “Tokyo Vice succeeds on several levels: as gripping journalism, as a ragged crime tale, as culture-shock memoir. Stakes are raised in its third act as the yakuza exercise increasing pressure on Adelstein, but he pursues the story anyway. Obviously, he lived to tell his tale - and thank goodness, because it’s a fascinating one.” -BOOKGASM “Engrossing. . . . fast-paced.”-The Atlanta-Journal Constitution “Exposes Tokyo’s darkest, seamiest, most entertaining corners. . . . [A] gritty, true-to-life account of 12 years on the news beat as a staffer for a Japanese daily - and it is exceptional. Its classic atmospherics rekindle memories of Walter Winchell and Eliot Ness. It’s a tale of adrenalin-depleting 80-hour weeks, full ashtrays, uncooperative sources, green tea, hard liquor, and forays into the commercialized depravity of Shinjuku’s Kabukicho. . . . D...

-Titulo Original : The Noble Hustle-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Excerpted from the Hardcover editionI have a good poker face because I am half dead inside. My particular combo of slack features, negligible affect, and soulless gaze has helped my game ever since I started playing twenty years ago, when I was ignorant of pot odds and M-theory and four-betting, and it gave me a boost as I collected my trove of lore, game by game, hand by hand. It has not helped me human relationships-wise over the years, but surely I’m not alone here. Anyone whose peculiar mix of genetic material and formative experiences has resulted in a near-expressionless mask can relate. Nature giveth, taketh, etc. You make the best of the hand you’re dealt.This thing draped over my skull and fastened by muscle is also a not-too-bad public-transportation face, a kind of wretched camouflage, which would come in handy on my trip to Atlantic City. Flash this mug and people don’t mess with you on buses, and this day I was heading to training camp. I had six weeks to get in shape. I was being staked to play in the World Series of Poker for a magazine, and my regular game was a five-dollar buy-in where catching up with friends took precedence over pulverizing your opponents.There was no question about taking a bus. I’m of that subset of native New Yorkers who can’t drive. Every spring, I made noises about getting my license and checked out the websites of local driving schools, which as a species embodied the most retrograde web design on the internet, real Galapagos stuff, replete with frenetic logos and fonts they don’t make anymore, the HTML flourishes of the previous century. How could I give my money to a business with so incompetent a portal? My wife and I owned a car, and she drove us everywhere, which came to be a hassle. I used to joke that I was afraid of getting my license--that I was at a point in my life that the first time I got behind the wheel, I’d just keep driving. The first couple of times I made this joke, people laughed. Then maybe my delivery began to falter, there was a change in tone, and they’d look around nervously, peek over my shoulder for another person to talk to. My wife had the car now. We got divorced four days prior.I’d been looking forward to a descent into some primo degradation to start my trip, a little atmosphere to match my mood, but of course the Port Authority was cleaned up now, like the rest of the city. In the daytime, anyway. Across the street, the shining New York Times tower watched over the entryway, a beacon of truth and justice and Renzo Piano, and inside the terminal corridors the stores were scrubbed nightly, well-buffed, the reassuring and familiar places you’ve shopped at plenty. Duane Reade, Hudson News, the kiosks of big banks yet to fail. I could be anywhere, starting a journey to anyplace, a new life or a funeral.I rushed to make the 3:30 bus and thought I’d have to gulp down a hot dog from a street vendor--fearing a grim return of said frank hours later at the table--but had time to pick up an albacore tuna sandwich with dill, capers, and lemon mayo on marbled rye, plus an artisanal root cola, all for ten bucks across the street at Dean and DeLuca. Estimated Probability of Degradation: down 35 percent.I waited to board and saw I didn’t need a public-transportation face. The other passengers queued up for AC were exfoliated and fit, heading down for Memorial Day fun, not the disreputable lot of Port Authority legend. Their weekend bags gave no indication that they contained their owners’ sole possessions. Where have all the molesters gone, the weenie wagglers and chicken hawks? Whither the diddlers? The only shabby element I registered was the signage at the Greyhound and Peter Pan counters, still showcasing the dependable logos remembered from the bad trips of yore. Returning from a botched assignation or misguided attempt to reconnect with an old friend. Rumbling and put-putting to a scary relative’s hous...

-Titulo Original : Hamnet-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life ... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it transports you. -The Boston GlobeEngland, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor-penniless and bullied by a violent father-falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever. Don’t miss Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel, The Marriage Portrait, coming in September! Review NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * ONE OF BILL GATESS FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR * Book Club Pick: Duchess Camilla Parker Bowles’ The Reading Room OFarrell has a melodic relationship to language. There is a poetic cadence to her writing and a lushness in her descriptions of the natural world. . . . We can smell the tang of the various new leathers in the glovers workshop, the fragrance of the apples racked a finger-width apart in the winter storage shed. . . . As the book unfolds, it brings its story to a tender and ultimately hopeful conclusion: that even the greatest grief, the most damaged marriage, and most shattered heart might find some solace, some healing. -Geraldine Brooks, the New York Times Book Review “All too timely . . . inspired. . . . [An] exceptional historical novel ” -The New YorkerMagnificent and searing. . . . A family saga so bursting with life, touched by magic, and anchored in affection. . . . Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life, about whether he even wrote his own plays, here is a novel that matches him with a woman overwhelmingly more than worthy. -The Boston GlobeA tour de force. . . . Hamnet vividly captures the life-changing intensity of maternity in its myriad stages-from the pain of childbirth to the unassuagable grief of loss. Fierce emotions and lyrical prose are what weve come to expect of OFarrell. -NPR OFarrell moves through the familys pain like a master of signs and signals. . . . In Hamnet, art imitates life not to co-opt reality, but to help us bear it. - Los Angeles Times Wholly original, fully engrossing. . . . Agnes is a character for the ages-engimatic, fully formed and nearly literally bewitching to behold in every scene shes in. -San Francisco Chronicle “A moving portrait of a mother’s grief. . . . O’Farrell’s prose is characteristically beautiful.” -The Wall Street Journal “Evocative. . . . [ Hamnet] is also life-affirming as it suggests ways art can transcend misfortune.” -National Review “Superb. . . . O’Farrell’s exquisitely wrought eighth novel proves once again what a very fine writer she is.” -Financial Times “Elliptical, dreamlike. . . . [ Hamnet] confirms O’Farrell as an extraordinarily versatile writer, with a profound understanding of the most elemental human bonds-qualities also possessed by a certain former Latin tutor from Stratford.” -The Observer (UK) “A remarkable piece of work. . . . O’Farrell is one of the most surprisingly quiet radicals in fiction.” -The Scotsman (UK) “[A] portrayal of grief and pain. . . . O’Farrell describes these agonies with such power that Hamnet would resonate at any time.” -The Guardian “[O’Farrell is] a writer of rare emotional intelligence whose personal intimations of mortality bear rich fruit in this, her eighth novel.” -Evenin...

-Titulo Original : The Lost Symbol (robert Langdon)-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER * An intelligent, lightning-paced thriller set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., with surprises at every turn. * Don’t miss the Peacock original series Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol! Famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to appear at the U.S. Capitol Building. His plans are interrupted when a disturbing object-artfully encoded with five symbols-is discovered in the building. Langdon recognizes in the find an ancient invitation into a lost world of esoteric, potentially dangerous wisdom. When his mentor Peter Solomon-a long-standing Mason and beloved philanthropist-is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that the only way to save Solomon is to accept the mystical invitation and plunge headlong into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and one inconceivable truth ... all under the watchful eye of Dan Browns most terrifying villain to date. Review “Impossible to put down. . . . Another mind-blowing Robert Langdon story.” -The New York Times“Thrilling in the extreme. . . . A definite page-flipper.” -New York Daily News“The wait is over. The Lost Symbol is here. . . . Thrilling and entertaining, like the experience on a roller coaster.” -Los Angeles Times “Dan Brown is a master of the breathless, puzzle-driven thriller.” -Richmond Times-Dispatch“Dan Brown brings sexy back to a genre that had been left for dead. . . . His code and clue-filled book is dense with exotica . . . amazing imagery . . . and the nonstop momentum that makes The Lost Symbol impossible to put down.” -The New York Times “Call it Brownian motion: a comet-tail ride of beautifully spaced reveals and a socko unveiling of the killer’s true identity.” -The Washington Post “Robert Langdon remains a terrific hero, a bookish intellectual who’s cool in a crisis and quick on his feet. . . . The codes are intriguing, the settings present often-seen locales in a fresh light, and Brown keeps the pages turning.” -Entertainment Weekly “A fascinating pleasure. . . . Upends our usual assumptions about the world we think we know.” -Newsweek “A roaring ride. . . . A caper filled with puzzles, grids, symbols, pyramids and a secret that can bestow ‘unfathomable power.’” -San Francisco Chronicle “[The] Indiana Jones of intellectuals, Robert Langdon, rides again. . . . Revelations connecting faith and science . . . add dimension to this page-turner’s thrills.” -People About the Author Dan Brown is the author of The Da Vinci Code, one of the most widely read novels of all time, as well as the international bestsellers Angels & Demons, Deception Point, and Digital Fortress. He lives in New England with his wife. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. PrologueHouse of the Temple8:33 P.M. The secret is how to die. Since the beginning of time, the secret had always been how to die. The thirty-four-year-old initiate gazed down at the human skull cradled in his palms. The skull was hollow, like a bowl, filled with bloodred wine. Drink it, he told himself. You have nothing to fear. As was tradition, he had begun this journey adorned in the ritualistic garb of a medieval heretic being led to the gallows, his loose-fitting shirt gaping open to reveal his pale chest, his left pant leg rolled up to the knee, and his right sleeve rolled up to the elbow. Around his neck hung a heavy rope noose-a cable-tow as the brethren called it. Tonight, however, like the brethren bearing witness, he was dressed as a master.The assembly of brothers encircling him all were adorned in their full regalia of lambskin aprons, sashes, and white gloves. Around their necks hung ceremonial jewels that glistened like ghostly eyes in the muted light. Many of these men held powerful stations in life, and yet the initiate knew their worldly ranks meant nothing within these walls. Here all men were equals, s...

-Titulo Original : Go Tell It On The Mountain (vintage International)-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boys discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwins rendering of his protagonists spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else. “With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... [a] feverish story.” - The New York Times Review “With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details, Mr. Baldwin has told his feverish story.” -The New York Times “Brutal, objective and compassionate.” -San Francisco Chronicle “It is written with poetic intensity and great narrative skill.” -Harper’s “Strong and powerful.” -Commonweal “A sense of reality and vitality that is truly extraordinary. . . . He knows Harlem, his people, and the language they use.” -Chicago Sun-Times “This is a distinctive book, both realistic and brutal, but a novel of extraordinary sensitivity and poetry.” -Chicago Sunday Tribune About the Author James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, and educated in New York. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews and immediately was recognized as establishing a profound and permanent new voice in American letters. Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else, he remarked. Baldwins play The Amen Corner was first performed at Howard University in 1955 (it was staged commercially in the 1960s), and his acclaimed collection of essays Notes of a Native Son, was published the same year. A second collection of essays, Nobody Knows My Name, was published in 1961 between his novels Giovannis Room (1956) and Another Country (1961). The appearance of The Fire Next Time in 1963, just as the civil rights movement was exploding across the American South, galvanized the nation and continues to reverberate as perhaps the most prophetic and defining statement ever written of the continuing costs of Americans refusal to face their own history. It became a national bestseller, and Baldwin was featured on the cover of Time magazine. Critic Irving Howe said that The Fire Next Time achieved heights of passionate exhortation unmatched in modern American writing. In 1964 Blues for Mister Charlie, his play based on the murder of a young black man in Mississippi, was produced by the Actors Studio in New York. That same year, Baldwin was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and collaborated with the photographer Richard Avedon on Nothing Personal, a series of portraits of America intended as a eulogy for the slain Medger Evers. A collection of short stories, Going to Meet the Man, was published in 1965, and in 1968, Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone, his last novel of the 1960s appeared. In the 1970s he wrote two more collections of essays and cultural criticism: No Name in the Street (1972) and The Devil Finds Work (1976). He produced two novels: the bestselling If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) and Just Above My Head (1979) and also a childrens book Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (1976). He collaborated with Margaret Mead on A Rap on Race (1971) and with the poet-activist Nikki Giovanni on A Dialogue (1973). He also adapted Alex Haleys The Autobiography of Malcolm X into One Day When I Was Lost. In the remaining years of his life, Baldwin produced a volume of poetry, Jimmys Blues (1983), and a final collection of essays, The Price of the Ticket. Baldwins last work, The Evi...

-Titulo Original : The Verifiers-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: Introducing Claudia Lin: a sharp-witted amateur sleuth for the 21st century. This debut novel follows Claudia as she verifies peoples online lives, and lies, for a dating detective agency in New York City. Until a client with an unusual request goes missing. . . .“The world of social media, big tech and internet connectivity provides fertile new ground for humans to deceive, defraud and possibly murder one another. . . . Well rendered and charming. . . . Original and intriguing.” -The New York Times Book ReviewClaudia is used to disregarding her fractious family’s model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She’s also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls-and that shes just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency. A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior thesis on Jane Austen, Claudia believes shes landed her ideal job. But when a client vanishes, Claudia breaks protocol to investigate-and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit. Part literary mystery, part family story, The Verifiers is a clever and incisive examination of how technology shapes our choices, and the nature of romantic love in the digital age. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. Review ONE OF THE YEARS MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS!Publishers Weekly * Harper’s Bazaar * Good Morning America * BuzzFeed * USA Today * Electric Lit * Literary Hub * Book Riot * Bustle * CrimeReads * Medium * Alma * Lambda Literary * LGBTQ Reads * PopSugar“This book is exhilaratingly well-written. I loved it so much that I didn’t want it to end.” -Emily St. John Mandel, bestselling author of Station Eleven“A commentary on love in the time of iPhones, a thrilling ride to discover what was really going on with the client that disappeared, and a look at one family making their way through all types of distance.” -Zibby Owens, Good Morning America“[A] funny and touching modern detective story.”-Keely Weiss, Harper’s Bazaar,“The Best, Buzziest New Books of 2022”“This astute, page-turning debut sheds light on the necessities and limitations of interpersonal interaction, the role technology plays in its evolution (and de-evolution), and what it means to be human and looking for love in the 21st century.”-Dahlia Adler, BuzzFeed“Through Claudia’s perceptive and entertaining narration, The Verifiers underscores the pitfalls and absurdities of modern technology. The novel is also an intimate portrait of a young, queer Chinese American person forging her own path.” -Poets & Writers“Claudia is single, gutsy (she’s a cyclist in New York), and a really funny narrator of this wonderfully entertaining mystery.” -Carole E. Barrowman,Milwaukee Journal Sentinel“The Verifiers is as delightful as it is insightful. . . . Pek poses deep and thoughtful questions about romance, privacy, family, data, corporate greed and big tech. . . . The Verifiers is sure to leave readers looking for more from this new voice in the genre. . . . A perfectly paced whodunit.” -Kerry McHugh, Shelf Awareness“Pek’s first novel is a whip-smart and super charming techno thriller that feels at once contemporary and classic.”-Michelle Hart, Electric Lit, “The Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books of 2022”“Pek’s book is funny in a sly way and smart in the way it explores the intersection between identity and technology.” -Lisa Levy, CrimeReads, “5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read This February”“I was so taken in by [Peks] descriptive language and lush, immersive imagery. . . . She’s adept at crafting the rich inner world of her characters.”-Vanessa Willoughby, Literary Hub, “Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022”“A twisty and smart mystery about online dating algorithms layered with a poignant tale about second-generation Asian American identity.” -Emily Burack, Alma,“Alma’s Favorite Books for Winter 2022”“Claudia’s wit [is] a great source of humor througho...

-Titulo Original : Transcendent Kingdom A Novel-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Yaa Gyasis stunning follow-up to her acclaimed novelHomegoing is a book of blazing brilliance (The Washington Post)-a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! * Finalist for the WOMENS PRIZEGifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her familys loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Review An Amazon Best Book of September 2020: Yaa Gyasi’s debut Homegoing was a sweeping, multi-generational novel that covered 300 years of Ghanaian and American history. It was moving and powerful, and it announced a rare new talent. The question was, how would she follow up that novel? Transcendent Kingdom is contemporary and grounded in one time period, but it is equally impressive. Gyasi’s talent is very real and very consistent. The story introduces Gifty, a PhD candidate in neuroscience at Stanford. She studies addiction and depression in mice, but addiction and depression exist in her family as well. Her once-promising brother died of a heroin overdose, and her depressed mother believes only prayer can heal her. Gifty is very much a contemporary, forward-looking character-a Ghanaian-American woman who is excelling in science at one of the best schools in the world-but she is also drawn by memories of faith and family in Alabama where she grew up. There are differences between Gyasi’s first two novels, but both are inhabited by characters that are multi-dimensional and real. And both are brilliant. -Chris Schluep, Amazon Book ReviewEditors pick: Filled with depth and emotion, Gifty is one of the most interesting, fully realized characters I have read this year.-Chris Schluep, Amazon Editor Review ONE OF THE GUARDIANS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR“Transcendent Kingdom trades the blazing brilliance of Homegoing for another type of glory, more granular and difficult to name.” -The New York Times Book Review “Laser-like. . . . A powerful, wholly unsentimental novel about family love, loss, belonging and belief that is more focused but just as daring as its predecessor, and to my mind even more successful. . . . [Transcendent Kingdom] is burningly dedicated to the question of meaning. . . . The pressure created gives her novel a hard, beautiful, diamantine luster.” -The Wall Street Journal “Yaa Gyasi’s profoundly moving second novel takes place in the vast, fragile landscape where the mysteries of God and the certainties of science collide. Through deliberate and precise prose, the book becomes an expansive meditation on grief, religion, and family.” -The Boston Globe “A stealthily devastating novel of family, faith and identity that’s as philosophical as it is personal.” -USA Today “Will stay with you long after you’ve finished it.” -Real Simple “Achingly lovely. . . . With her sophomore novel, Gyasi is narrowing her scope. Transcendent Kingdom is the story of one specific girl in one specific family: it is interior, psychological, and deeply focused on sifting through the layers of Gifty’s mind as she studies and prays and experiments to try to find her way to what lies at the core of human beings.” -Vox “A luminous, heartbreaking and redemptive American story, Transcendent Kingdom is the mark of a brilliant writer who is just getting started.” -Seat...

-Titulo Original : Under The Banner Of Heaven A Story Of Violent Faith-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. Now an FX limited series streaming on HULU.“Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” -San Francisco ChronicleDefying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief. Review “Scrupulously reported and written with Krakauer’s usual exacting flair, Under the Banner of Heaven is both illuminating and thrilling. It is also the creepiest book anyone has written in a long time-and that’s meant as the highest possible praise.” -Newsweek“Fantastic. . . . Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” -San Francisco Chronicle “Powerfully illuminating. . . . Almost every section of the book is fascinating in its own right, and together the chapters make a rich picture. . . . An arresting portrait of depravity.” -The New York Times Book Review “This year’s most audacious work of nonfiction. . . . A white-knuckle mix of true-crime reporting and provocative history.” -New York Post “Krakauer writes with almost astonishing narrative force. It is hard to stop reading.” -The Baltimore Sun “Stunningly researched. . . . Elegant reportage. . . . An evenhanded inquiry into the nature of religious belief itself.” -Newsday “Captivating. . . . Fascinating and appalling. . . . [Krakauer] should be applauded-and read.” -The San Diego Union-Tribune “A great book. . . . Krakauer has found a fascinating story in plain sight, right in the heart of the American West, and told it with the narrative drive and unflinching honesty that marked his 1998 best seller, Into Thin Air.” -The Oregonian “Jon Krakauer is at his provocative best.” -The New Orleans Times-Picayune “A fascinating page-turner. . . . Engrossing. . . . Krakauer’s knack for crackling narrative and taut focus . . . drives this thought-provoking story.” -The Columbus Dispatch “A hair-raising true-crimer.” -Chicago Sun-Times “Terrifying. . . . Startling. . . . Mov[es] deftly between past and present [and] provides a fascinating glimpse of the church today.” -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A powerful portrait of how two seemingly ordinary Americans became murderers.” -The Economist “Illuminating . . . provocative. . . . Krakauer is an adept chronicler of extremists [and] the tour guide of choice for secular quests.” -Los Angeles Times Book Review “Marvelous. . . . A departure from Into Thin Air and Into the Wild . . . but every bit as engrossing.” -Entertainment Weekly “Well-researched and evenhanded. . . . Thought-provoking.” -USA Today “Startling. . . . Timely. . . . Krakauer uncovers a ghastly trail of forced marriage, polygamy, violence and mind control. . . . A chilling look at Mormon fundamentalism.” -The Charlotte Observer “Horrific, gripping. . . . Soberly written and courageously reported.” -Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel “Engrossing. . . . Incisive. . . . [Krakauer is] a very careful reporter. . . . His clear-headed, unbiased examination of the church-leavened with genuine respect-and his conclusions . . . are hard to argue with.” -Boulder Daily Camera “One hell of a chilling read.” -Maxim “Compelling. . . ...

-Titulo Original : American Psycho-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this modern classic, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.“A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book.” -Katherine Dunn, bestselling author of Geek Love From Library Journal This review is based on the galley issued by Elliss original publisher, Simon & Schuster, before it cancelled the book. The book is now going through the editing process at Vintage. There may be some changes in the final version. The indignant attacks on Elliss third novel (see News, p. 17; Editorial, p. 6) will make it difficult for most readers to judge it objectively. Although the book contains horrifying scenes, they must be read in the context of the book as a whole; the horror does not lie in the novel itself, but in the society it reflects. In the first third of the book, Pat Bateman, a 26-year-old who works on Wall Street, describes his designer lifestyle in excruciating detail. This is a world in which the elegance of a business card evokes more emotional response than the murder of a child. Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, Bateman calmly and deliberately blinds and stabs a homeless man. From here, the body count builds, as he kills a male acquaintance and sadistically tortures and murders two prostitutes, an old girlfriend, and a child he passes in the zoo. The recital of the brutalization is made even more horrible by the first-person narrators delivery: flat, matter-of-fact, as impersonal as a car parts catalog. The author has carefully constructed the work so that the reader has no way to understand this killers motivations, making it even more frightening. If these acts cannot be explained, there is no hope of protection from such random, senseless crimes. This book is not pleasure reading, but neither is it pornography. It is a serious novel that comments on a society that has become inured to suffering. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/90 and 12/90.- Nora Rawlinson, Library JournalCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review “Bret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and] American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel…. The novelist’s function is to keep a running tag on the progress of culture; and he’s done it brilliantly…. A seminal book.” -Fay Weldon, The Washington Post “A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book.” -Katherine Dunn, bestselling author of Geek Love “A great novel. What Emerson said about genius, that it’s the return of one’s rejected thoughts with an alienated majesty, holds true for American Psycho…. There is a fever to the life of this book that is, in my reading, unknown in American literature.” -Michael Tolkin “The first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themes…. [Ellis] is showing older authors where the hands come to on the clock.” -Norman Mailer, Vanity Fair From the Inside Flap Now a major motion picture from Lions Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol).In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures t...

-Titulo Original : A Visit From The Goon Squad-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1Found ObjectsIt began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel. Sasha was adjusting her yellow eye shadow in the mirror when she noticed a bagon the floor beside the sink that must have belonged to the womanwhose peeing she could faintly hear through the vaultlike door of a toilet stall. Inside the rim of the bag, barely visible, was a wallet made of pale green leather. It was easy for Sasha to recognize, looking back, that the peeing womans blind trust had provoked her: We live in a city where people will steal the hair off your head if you give them half a chance, but you leave your stuff lying in plain sight and expect it to be waiting for you when you come back? It made her want to teach the woman a lesson. But this wish only camouflaged the deeper feeling Sasha always had: that at, tender wallet, offering itself to her hand-it seemed so dull, so life-as-usual to just leave it there rather than seize the moment, accept the challenge, take the leap, fly the coop, throw caution to the wind, live dangerously (I get it, Coz, her therapist, said), and take the fucking thing.You mean steal it.He was trying to get Sasha to use that word, which was harder to avoid in the case of a wallet than with a lot of the things shed lifted over the past year, when her condition (as Coz referred to it) had begun to accelerate: five sets of keys, fourteen pairs of sunglasses, a childs striped scarf, binoculars, a cheese grater, a pocketknife, twenty-eight bars of soap, and eighty-five pens, ranging from cheap ballpoints shed used to sign debit-card slips to the aubergine Visconti that cost two hundred sixty dollars online, which shed lifted from her former bosss lawyer during a contracts meeting. Sasha no longer took anything from stores-their cold, inert goods didnt tempt her. Only from people.Okay, she said. Steal it.Sasha and Coz had dubbed that feeling she got the personal challenge, as in: taking the wallet was a way for Sasha to assert her toughness, her individuality. What they needed to do was switch things around in her head so that the challenge became not taking the wallet but leaving it. That would be the cure, although Coz never used words like cure. He wore funky sweaters and let her call him Coz, but he was old school inscrutable, to the point where Sasha couldnt tell if he was gay or straight, if hed written famous books, or if (as she sometimes suspected) he was one of those escaped cons who impersonate surgeons and windup leaving their operating tools inside peoples skulls. Of course, these questions could have been resolved on Google in less than a minute, but they were useful questions (according to Coz), and so far, Sasha had resisted.The couch where she lay in his office was blue leather and very soft. Coz liked the couch, hed told her, because it relieved them both of the burden of eye contact. You dont like eye contact? Sasha had asked. It seemed like a weird thing for a therapist to admit.I find it tiring, hed said. This way, we can both look where we want.Where will you look?He smiled. You can see my options.Where do you usually look? When people are on the couch.Around the room, Coz said. At the ceiling. Into space.Do you ever sleep?No.Sasha usually looked at the window, which faced the street, and tonight, as she continued her story, was rippled with rain. Shed glimpsed the wallet, tender and overripe as a peach. Shed plucked it from the womans bag and slipped it into her own small handbag, which shed zipped shut before the sound of peeing had stopped. Shed flicked open the bathroom door and floated back through the lobby to the bar. She and the wallets owner had never seen each other.Prewallet, Sasha had been in the grip of a dire evening: lame date (yet another) brooding behind dark bangs, sometimes glancing at the flat-screen TV, where a Jets game seemed to interest him more than S...

-Titulo Original : The Nickel Boys A Novel-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this Pulitzer Prize-winning follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers and “should further cement Whitehead as one of his generations best (Entertainment Weekly). Look for Colson Whitehead’s bestselling new novel, Harlem Shuffle! Review WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Time, Esquire, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vox, Variety, Christian Science Monitor, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, Literary Hub, BuzzFeed, The New York Public Library, Publishers Weekly NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST ONE OF TIME MAGAZINES 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 A necessary read. -President Barack ObamaThis is a powerful book by one of Americas great writers. . . . Without sentimentality, in as intense and finely crafted a book as youll ever read, Whitehead tells a story of American history that won’t allow you to see the country in the same way again. -Toronto StarColson Whitehead continues to make a classic American genre his own. . . . The narration is disciplined and the sentences plain and sturdy, oars cutting into water. Every chapter hits its marks. . . . Whitehead comports himself with gravity and care, the steward of painful, suppressed histories; his choices on the page can feel as much ethical as aesthetic. The ordinary language, the clear pane of his prose, lets the stories speak for themselves. . . . Whitehead has written novels of horror and apocalypse; nothing touches the grimness of the real stories he conveys here -The New York TimesInspired by a real school in Florida, The Nickel Boys is a haunting narrative that reinforces Whiteheads prowess as a leading voice in American literature. -TIME[The Nickel Boys] should further cement Whitehead as one of his generations best. -Entertainment Weekly Were Whitehead’s only aim to shine an unforgiving light on a redacted chapter of racial terrorism in the American chronicle, that would be achievement enough. What he is doing in his new novel, as in its immediate predecessor, is more challenging than that. . . . He applies a master storyteller’s muscle. . . . The elasticity of time in The Nickel Boys feels so organic that only when you put the book down do you fully appreciate that its sweep encompasses much of the last century as well as this one. . . . A writer like Whitehead, who challenges the complacent assumption that we even fathom what happened in our past, has rarely seemed more essential.” -The New York Times Book ReviewA masterpiece squared, rooted in history and American mythology and, yet, painfully topical in its visions of justice and mercy erratically denied . . . a great American novel. -Maureen Corrigan, NPR.orgWhiteheads brilliant...

-Titulo Original : The Myth Of Sisyphus (vintage International)-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER * An internationally acclaimed author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence.Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide-the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly presents a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. About the Author Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger-now one of the most widely read novels of this century-in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident...

-Titulo Original : This Old Man All In Pieces-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, steps up with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life. Whether it’s a Fourth of July in rural Maine, the opening game of the 2015 World Series, editorial exchanges with John Updike, a letter to a son, or his award-winning essay on aging, “This Old Man,” what links the pieces is Angell’s unique perceptions and humor, his utter absence of self-pity, and his appreciation of friends and colleagues encountered over a fruitful career unlike any other. Review “[Angell’s] prose is bright and conversational and almost infinitely elastic.... Like V. S. Pritchett, his own “bottomless reading” seems never to have dulled “the eagerness of his mind,” or the bounce and velocity of his prose, which, like Updike’s, possesses a gravity-defying “lift and lightness and intelligence.” Perhaps most of all, Mr. Angell - like Updike and White - is a “prime noticer”: a sharp-eyed collector of details, gathered over the course of nearly 10 decades, and dispensed here, with artistry and elan, in these jottings from a long and writerly life.-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times[I]rresistible.... Angell is neither an aphoristic nor overtly flashy writer. His virtues are those of close observation and considered reflection, careful accretion of detail and argument, and a prose style whose ambling grace belies its lean economy. -San Francisco Chronicle “There is a certain generosity operating here, an assumption of friendship between reader and writer, the way one is pleased to hear what a friend has to say no matter what the occasion. In inviting us to rummage through his literary files, Angell proves almost consistently engaging and companionable.... [W]e are grateful for his perspective on the kingdom of old age and hope only to be as wise and realistic when we get there.” -Phillip Lopate, Times Book Review“Angell’s a true craftsman, carefully picking each word and phrase and, like any good editor, cutting out the fluff.... What stitches together the collection is a sense of gratitude.... It feels like he assembled this collection in great part to say thank you. But it’s his readers who should be saying it. For as long as we have him and as long as he’s still contributing to The Sporting Scene and other fixtures of The New Yorker, we should appreciate his talent.” -The Washington Post “[A] wonderfully scattershot collection of letters, essays, and (yes!) blog posts. But what seem to be odds and ends, literary leftovers, are revealed to be mortar of a writing life.... They are essential. I want to talk to him about baseball, and writing, and what he was doing at my age, and how he made it from there to here. I want to hear the things hes said a thousand times.”-GQ“[L]ucid, humane, and insightful.... Perhaps most surprising is the suppleness and range of his writing.... [Angell] moves with agility between humor, pathos, and playful metaphor, often within the same essay.”-Christian Science Monitor “[Angell’s] reflections and commentary brim with steadfast wisdom and are possibly more nuanced than ever. [T]his is a uniformly engaging and eloquent selection that attests to a full life well lived.” -Chicago Tribune “This Old Man is as profound a meditation on time and loss as some of the work of Angells revered stepfather, E.B. White.... As Angell tells it straight, its not much of a pleasure to be very old, but it is a great pleasure to spend time in the company of This Old Man.” -Fresh Airs Maureen Corrigan“Sublime…a charming addition to an estimable-and time-tested-career. This Old Man is a winning collection of miscellany from his later years at The New Yorker, which hired him in 1956 and continues to publish his work.”-Daily Beast “If youre blessed with a nonagenarian father, grandfather or uncle whos still got all his marbles, has lived among the best in the worlds of sports, literature and art, ...

-Titulo Original : No Country For Old Men-Fabricante : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road comes a profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law-in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell-can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers-in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives-McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph. Look for Cormac McCarthys new novel, The Passenger, coming October 22. Review “Profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered. The most accessible of all his works.” -Washington Post “A narrative that rips along like hell on wheels [in a] race with the devil [on] a stage as big as Texas.” -The New York Times Book Review “Expertly staged and pitilessly lighted. It feels like a genuine diagnosis of the postmillennial malady, a scary illumination of the oncoming darkness.” -Time “A cause for celebration. He is nothing less than our greatest living writer, and this is a novel that must be read and remembered.” -Houston Chronicle About the Author The novels of the American writer, CORMAC McCARTHY, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men-the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. I I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three times. Three times. The last time was the day of his execution. I didnt have to go but I did. I sure didnt want to. He’d killed a fourteen year old girl and I can tell you right now I never did have no great desire to visit with him let alone go to his execution but I done it. The papers said it was a crime of passion and he told me there wasnt no passion to it. He’d been datin this girl, young as she was. He was nineteen. And he told me that he had been plannin to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he’d do it again. Said he knew he was goin to hell. Told it to me out of his own mouth. I dont know what to make of that. I surely dont. I thought I’d never seen a person like that and it got me to wonderin if maybe he was some new kind. I watched them strap him into the seat and shut the door. He might of looked a bit nervous about it but that was about all. I really believe that he knew he was goin to be in hell in fifteen minutes. I believe that. And I’ve thought about that a lot. He was not hard to talk to. Called me Sheriff. But I didnt know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything? I’ve thought about it a good deal. But he wasnt nothin compared to what was comin down the pike. They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. I dont know what them eyes was the windows to and I guess I’d as soon not know. But there is another view of the world out there and other eyes to see it and that’s where this is goin. It has done brought me to a place in my life I would not of thought I’d of come to. Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confr...