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Picador Spring 2011.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 10/20/10 10:16 AM Page 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS LADIES’ MAN 26 PICADOR PAPERBACK Richard Price THE LONG SONG 2 THE BREAKS 27 Andrea Levy Richard Price THE SUMMER WITHOUT MEN 4 BANANA REPUBLICAN 28 (PAPERBACK ORIGINAL) Eric Rauchway Siri Hustvedt JULY BACKLIST TIE-INS 29 THE ARABS AND THE HOLOCAUST 6 THE TENTH PARALLEL 30 Gilbert Achcar Eliza Grisworld TRUTH 7 I CURSE THE RIVER OF TIME 32 Peter Temple Per Petterson THE GOVERNMENT OF SELF AND OTHERS 8 BLACK MAMBA BOY 34 Michel Foucault Nadifa Mohamed ETHER 9 THE PAIN CHRONICLES 35 Evgenia Citkowitz Melanie Thernstrom THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA 10 THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES 36 Edmund de Waal (REISSUE) Greil Marcus WATCHING THE WORLD CHANGE 38 David Friend POSITIVELY 4TH STREET 11 WAR IS NOT OVER WHEN IT’S OVER 39 (REISSUE) Ann Jones David Hajdu DANCING BACKWARDS 40 A GREAT UNRECORDED HISTORY 12 Salley Vickers Wendy Moffat HUMILIATION 41 THE FATE OF NATURE 13 (PAPERBACK ORIGINAL (EARLY RELEASE, BIG IDEAS // SMALL BOOKS) ON SALE MARCH 29TH, 2011) Wayne Koestenbaum Charles Wohlforth MARIO VARGAS LLOSA MAY BACKLIST TIE-INS 14 (BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS) 43 DARK HARBOR 15 Nathan Ward JONATHAN FRANZEN 44 ILUSTRADO 16 (BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS) Miguel Syjuco HILARY MANTEL 45 THE HOUSE ON SALT HAY ROAD 18 (BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS) Carin Clevidence PICADOR CRIME 46 BEACH WEEK 19 Susan Coll RECENT PICADOR HIGHLIGHTS 48 MY LIFE AS A RUSSIAN NOVEL 20 BESTSELLING BACKLIST 50 Emmanuel Carre`re READING GROUP GUIDES 52 JUNE BACKLIST TIE-INS 21 SUBSIDIARY RIGHTS 54 THE FEVER 22 CUSTOMER SERVICE 56 Sonia Shah WINTERLAND 23 INDEX 63 Alan Glynn THE HUNDRED BROTHERS 24 (REISSUE) Donald Antrim DREYFUS 25 Cover design by Henry Sene Yee Ruth Harris Picador Spring 2011.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 10/20/10 10:16 AM Page 2 PAPERBACK ANDREA LEVY The Long Song A Novel Shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize “Insightful and inspired. The Long Song reminds us that [Levy] is one of the best historical novelists of her generation.” —Tayari Jones, The Washington Post In her follow-up to Small Island, winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction, Andrea Levy once again reinvents the historical novel. Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, The Long Song is at once defiant, funny, and shocking. The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation in Jamaica, July lives with her mother until Mrs. Caroline Mortimer, a recently transplanted English widow, decides to move Fiction her into the great house and rename her “Marguerite.” 978-0-312-57114-6 Together they live through the bloody Baptist War and $15.00 • NCR through the violent and chaotic end of slavery. An Trade Paperback extraordinarily powerful story, “The Long Song leaves 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 320 pp. its reader with a newly burnished appreciation for life, Hardcover 978-0-374-19217-4 love, and the pursuit of both” (The Boston Globe). “With her almost Dickensian gifts for dialogue and storytelling . Levy’s novelistic defense against evil and injustice is her humane sense of comedy.” —Fernanda Eberstadt, The New York Times Book Review Also available Fruit of the Lemon 978-0-312-42664-4 $15.00 Small Island 978-0-312-42952-2 $15.00 2May Picador Spring 2011.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 10/20/10 10:16 AM Page 3 May “With [July’s] fresh, pugnacious voice, Levy has us in her thrall. The daughter of Jamaican immigrants, [Levy] addresses racism at its ugliest and most virulent in this intricately imagined novel. The wonder is the spirit of indomitable dignity with which she manages to infuse her tragic tale.” —Heller McAlpin, San Francisco Chronicle LAURIE FLETCHER “Remarkable and profoundly imagined. But the stroke of genius that makes this radiant novel soar • NEXT Selection is the forthright, courageous, captivating, and • National Print Coverage indomitable July.” • Internet Marketing —Jane Ciabattari, NPR.org’s “Books We Like” Outreach to Literary Sites Picador e-Newsletter and “Andrea Levy’s shimmering new novel . offers a Website Feature unique portrayal of an island where a mother’s secrets Online Reading Group become the history of us all.” Guide —Celia McGee, O, The Oprah Magazine Reading Group Promotion “July’s sharp, funny insights and lyrical prose had us www.andrealevy.co.uk hooked from the start.” —Ladies’ Home Journal • Backlist Promotion • Academic Marketing “A bitingly original novel. [The Long Song] proves Campaign that ingenuity can be as heroic as love.” —More ANDREA LEVY was born in England to Jamaican parents. Her fourth novel, Small Island, won both the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best. She lives in London. May 3 Picador Spring 2011.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 10/20/10 10:16 AM Page 4 PAPERBACK ORIGINAL SIRI HUSTVEDT The Summer Without Men A Novel “And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should not get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren’t there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment.” Mia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of The Summer Without Men has been forced to reexamine her own life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia’s husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a “pause.” This abrupt request sends her reeling and lands her in a psychiatric ward. The June following Mia’s release from the hospital, she returns to the prairie town of her childhood where her mother lives in an old people’s home. Alone in a rented house, she rages and fumes and bemoans her sorry fate. Slowly, however, she is Fiction drawn into the lives of those around her—her mother 978-0-312-57060-6 and her close friends,“the Five Swans,” and her young $14.00 • $16.00 Can. neighbor with two small children and a loud angry Trade Paperback husband—and the adolescent girls in her poetry work- Includes 5 line drawings shop whose scheming and petty cruelty carry a threat throughout 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 192 pp. all their own. From the internationally bestselling author of What Also available I Loved comes a provocative, witty, and revelatory The Blindfold novel about women and girls, love and marriage, and 978-0-312-42275-2 $14.00 the age-old question of sameness and difference The Enchantment of Lily Dahl between the sexes. 978-0-312-42339-1 $14.00 A Plea for Eros 978-0-312-42553-1 $16.00 The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves 978-0-312-42957-7 $15.00 The Sorrows of an American 978-0-312-42820-4 $14.00 What I Loved 978-0-312-42119-9 $15.00 4May Picador Spring 2011.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 10/20/10 10:16 AM Page 5 May Praise for The Sorrows of an American “I think I am in love. This is one of the most profound and absorbing books I have read in a long time.” —The Washington Post “Beautiful. Both a large-scale examination of the idea of America and a close inspection of the experiences of coping with trauma and loss.” MARION ETTLINGER —San Francisco Chronicle “Complex and contemplative. The Sorrows of an • National Review Coverage American is a thought-provoking book that offers • National Public Radio pleasures across many different registers.” Campaign —The New York Times Book Review • Advance Reading Copies • Special Retail Offer “The pages turn themselves. The old story, the search • Select Author Events for the self, holds water once again.” • Internet Marketing —Los Angeles Times Digital Advertising “It is a rare writer who can both rouse the mind and Outreach to Literary grip the heart.” —The Independent (UK) Sites and Bloggers Reading Group Promotion Online Reading Group Guide Picador e-Newsletter and Website Feature www.sirihustvedt.net • Backlist Promotion SIRI HUSTVEDT was born in 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota. She moved to New York City in 1978 and earned her Ph.D. in English literature at Columbia University in 1986. She is the author of five novels, including The Sorrows of an American, What I Loved, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, and The Blindfold, as well as two collections of essays, A Plea for Eros and Myster- ies of the Rectangle, and most recently The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Paul Auster. May 5 Picador Spring 2011.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 10/20/10 10:16 AM Page 6 PAPERBACK May PAPE GILBERT ACHCAR The Arabs and the Holocaust The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives “Achcar offers a careful parsing of a most incendi- ary topic. Calm and judicious in tenor yet unyielding in its intellectual rigor, The Arabs and the Holocaust may show the path out of a seemingly intractable dispute.” —Booklist There is no more inflammatory topic than the Arabs and the Holocaust—the phrase alone can occasion outrage. Political scientist Gilbert Achcar analyzes the various Arab responses to Nazism, from the earliest intimations of the genocide, through the creation of Israel and the destruction of Palestine and up to our own time, critically assessing the political and histori- cal context for these responses and offering by the same token a unique ideological mapping of the Arab world.