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Fall 2009

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Alfred A.Knopf Index of Titles Page Page The American Civil War, John Keegan 85 Lincoln, Life-Size, Philip B. Kunhardt III, American Icon, Teri Thompson, Peter W. Kunhardt, and Peter W. Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O’Keeffe, and Kunhardt, Jr. 89 Christian Red 46 The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk 83 Angel Time, Anne Rice 79 The National Parks, Dayton Duncan and The Art Student’s War, Brad Leithauser 94 Ken Burns 55 The Bauhaus Group, Nicholas Fox Weber 78 News of the World, Philip Levine 74 Blood’s A Rover, James Ellroy 63 Noah’s Compass, Anne Tyler 61 The Case for God, Karen Armstrong 57 Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro 53 The Children’s Book, A. S. Byatt 69 Nothing Was the Same, Kay Redfield Civil War Wives, Carol Berkin 64 Jamison 65 The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer, On Thin Ice, Richard Ellis* 92 Johnny Mercer 80 The Original of Laura, Vladimir Nabokov 97 Conquering Fear, Harold S. Kushner 81 Painting Below Zero, James Rosenquist 86 Conversations with Woody Allen, Eric Lax 52 A Phone Call to the Future, Mary Jo Crossers, Philip Caputo 76 Salter 54 Crude World, Peter Maass 58 The Pleasures of Cooking for One, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Judith Jones 62 Stories, Leo Tolstoy 98 The Queen Mother, William Shawcross 93 Defend the Realm, Christopher Andrew 77 Redeeming Features, Nicholas Haslam 96 Easy, Marie Ponsot 84 Robert Altman, Mitchell Zuckoff 73 Eating, Jason Epstein 82 Robert Redford, Michael Feeney Callan 95 The Education of a British-Protected Child, Chinua Achebe* 72 Selected Poems, Frank O’Hara 54 Endpoint and Other Poems, John Updike 45 The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior, David Allen Sibley 48 A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore 59 The Slippery Year, Melanie Gideon 51 The Godfather of Kathmandu, John Burdett 75 Sweet Thunder, Wil Haygood* 68 Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof and That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo 91 Sheryl WuDunn 60 Tiepolo Pink, Roberto Calasso 70 Hearts of the City, Herbert Muschamp 100 Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro 101 The Immortals, Amit Chaudhuri 50 The Truth About Love, Josephine Hart 49 In the Falling Snow, Caryl Phillips 56 The Vintage Caper, Peter Mayle 71 The Jazz Loft Project, Sam Stephenson 88 Wheeling Motel, Franz Wright 66 Jericho’s Fall, Stephen L. Carter 47 Who Shot Rock & Roll, Gail Buckland 67 Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy, Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Woodrow Wilson, John Milton Cooper, Jr. 90 Bastianich Manuali 87 The World in Vogue, Hamish Bowles 99

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Index of Authors Page Page Achebe, Chinua, The Education of a Kunhardt, Philip B., III, Peter W. British-Protected Child 72 Kunhardt, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Andrew, Christopher, Defend the Realm 77 Lincoln, Life-Size 89 Kushner, Harold S., Conquering Fear 81 Armstrong, Karen, The Case for God 57 Lax, Eric, Conversations with Bastianich, Lidia Matticchio, and Tanya Woody Allen 52 Bastianich Manuali, Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy 87 Leithauser, Brad, The Art Student’s War 94 Levine, Philip, News of the World 74 Berkin, Carol, Civil War Wives 64 Maass, Peter, Crude World 58 Bowles, Hamish, The World in Vogue 99 Mayle, Peter, The Vintage Caper 71 Buckland, Gail, Who Shot Rock & Roll 67 Mercer, Johnny, The Complete Lyrics of Burdett, John, The Godfather of Johnny Mercer 80 Kathmandu 75 Moore, Lorrie, A Gate at the Stairs 59 Byatt, A. S., The Children’s Book 69 Munro, Alice, Too Much Happiness 101 Calasso, Roberto, Tiepolo Pink 70 Muschamp, Herbert, Hearts of the City 100 Callan, Michael Feeney, Robert Redford 95 Nabokov, Vladimir, The Original of Laura 97 Caputo, Philip, Crossers 76 O’Hara, Frank, Selected Poems 54 Carter, Stephen L., Jericho’s Fall 47 Pamuk, Orhan, The Museum of Innocence 83 Chaudhuri, Amit, The Immortals 50 Phillips, Caryl, In the Falling Snow 56 Cooper, Jr., John Milton, Woodrow Wilson 90 Ponsot, Marie, Easy 84 Duncan, Dayton, and Ken Burns, Rice, Anne, Angel Time 79 The National Parks 55 Rosenquist, James, Painting Below Zero 86 Ellis, Richard, On Thin Ice 92 Russo, Richard, That Old Cape Magic 91 Ellroy, James, Blood’s A Rover 63 Salter, Mary Jo, A Phone Call to the Future 54 Epstein, Jason, Eating 82 Shawcross, William, The Queen Mother 93 Gideon, Melanie, The Slippery Year 51 Sibley, David Allen, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior 48 Hart, Josephine, The Truth About Love 49 Stephenson, Sam, The Jazz Loft Project 88 Haslam, Nicholas, Redeeming Features 96 Thompson, Teri, Nathaniel Vinton, Haygood, Wil, Sweet Thunder 68 Michael O’Keeffe, and Christian Red, Ishiguro, Kazuo, Nocturnes 53 American Icon 46 Jamison, Kay Redfield, Nothing Was Tolstoy, Leo, The Death of Ivan Ilyich the Same 65 and Other Stories 98 Tyler, Anne, Noah’s Compass 61 Jones, Judith, The Pleasures of Cooking for One 62 Updike, John, Endpoint and Other Poems 45 Keegan, John, The American Civil War 85 Weber, Nicholas Fox, The Bauhaus Group 78 Kristof, Nicholas D., and Sheryl WuDunn, Wright, Franz, Wheeling Motel 66 Half the Sky 60 Zuckoff, Mitchell, Robert Altman 73

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JUST PUBLISHED John Updike Endpoint and Other Poems

ohn Updike’s last book, a stunning, moving collection of poems written Jover the past seven years, which he put together only weeks before he died.

John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsyl- lections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His books vania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the How- member of the staff of The New Yorker. He was the au- ells Medal, among other honors. He died in January thor of more than sixty books, including novels and col- 2009.

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July Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O’Keeffe, and Christian Red American Icon The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime

sing Roger Clemens’s fidelity and drug use in Ustartling fall from professional ball, and grace—accusations of ste- provides an inside look roid use, investigation by at the way Congress has the Justice Department, dealt with the entire disclosure of sexual infi- issue. Jose Canseco, Alex delities, and the possible Rodriguez, and Chuck charges of perjury and Knoblauch are some of maybe even prison time the baseball players who to come—as a starting have substantial roles in point, this is the defini- this book. The writers tive book on corruption take us outside the white and the steroids era in lines and inside the deal- Major League Baseball. ings of sports executives, While Clemens is the cen- trainers, Congressmen, tral figure, the book ex- lawyers, a country west- amines the rise of illegal ern singer, a porn star, drugs in America’s fa- drug dealers, even a mur- vorite sport, the gym/ derer—all of whom have steroid culture in Texas, ties to the extraordinary the story of Andy Pettitte Clemens saga. and his father’s involvement with HGH, the An important, disturbing book, and one legal maneuverings in the Clemens/Brian that will rock and captivate baseball fans all McNamee case, and the culture of sexual in- over the country.

Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O’Keeffe, and Chris- • National Media Appearances tian Red are the New York Daily News sports investigative team, • National Print Features which has been at the forefront of the issue of performance- • Drive-time Sports Radio Campaign enhancing drugs since the team’s inception in 2000. One of the • Author Tour: Boston, Houston, and only investigative units of its kind in American sports journalism, New York the I-Team has won more than a dozen major awards for its • National Print Advertising, including work. USA Today • Online Advertising on TheNewYork Times.com

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Stephen L. Carter Jericho’s Fall A novel

tephen L. Carter’s bril- Beck believes she is there Sliant debut thriller, to say good-bye, but she The Emperor of Ocean is quickly and unwittingly Park, spent eleven weeks drawn into a battle of on the New York Times wits being fought over an best-seller list and was explosive secret that for- followed by two nation- eign governments and wide best sellers, New powerful corporations England White and alike want to wrest from Palace Council. Now, in Jericho before he dies. Jericho’s Fall, Carter re- An intricate, fast- turns us to the high- moving thriller that stakes world of power, plumbs the emotional privilege, and conspiracy. depths of a failed love af- In an imposing house fair and a family torn in the Colorado Rockies, apart by mistrust, Jeri- Jericho Ainsley, former cho’s Fall embraces a head of the Central Intel- wide range of issues, from ligence Agency and long- the morality of intelli- time Wall Street titan, lies gence operations to the dying. Jericho summons meltdown of the world to his bedside Beck DeForde, the younger financial system. And it creates, in Beck woman for whom he threw his career away DeForde, an unforgettable heroine for our tur- twenty years ago, miring them both in scandal. bulent modern age.

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Available in Vintage paperback: Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of The Emperor of Ocean Park Law at Yale University, where he has taught since 1982. He and $14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-0-375-71292-0 his family live near New Haven, Connecticut. New England White Also available from Random House Audio $14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-0-375-71291-3 Also available in a Random House Large Print Edition Palace Council $25.95 (Can. $32.00) • 978-0-7393-7731-4 $14.95 (Can. $17.50) • 978-0-307-38596-3 Available in Anchor paperback: 1 1 The Culture of Disbelief Fiction • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 352 pages $16.95 (Can. $18.95) • 978-0-385-47498-6 $25.95 (Can. $32.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27262-1

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David Allen Sibley The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior

For the first time in flexibind: David Sibley’s authoritative and com- prehensive guide to avian life. A trove of information about the biology, life cycles, and behavior of the eighty bird families of North America.

“Sibley’s artwork is more than impressive; it’s incredible! Paired with The Sibley Guide to Birds, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior will raise birding to a new level.” —Birder’s World “Another landmark in bird guides . . . This book should be read by all birders who want to make their hobby much more meaningful and satisfying.” —Don Messersmith, Audubon Naturalist News

“This is the book to turn the casual bird- watcher into a birder; it’s suffused with David Sibley’s quiet, concerned wonder.” —Ty Burr, Entertainment Weekly

With 786 full-color paintings by David Allen Sibley and 16 maps Edited by Chris Elphick, John B. Dunning, Jr., and David Allen Sibley Nature • 6 x 9 1/2 • 608 pages • $39.95 (Can. $47.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-1-4000-4386-6

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August Josephine Hart The Truth About Love A novel

rom the author of including love of coun- FDamage, a new novel try—in the past and dur- of piercing emotional ining the forty years tensity and intelligence— through which the novel about loss and love and moves. what it takes for the heart In the mother, we see and mind to bear them how the desperate atten- both. tion of her husband and The dramatic death of the delicate bravery of her a teenage boy in a small daughter lure her away Irish town in the early from grief. In the neigh- 1960s sets the story in bor, we see a man who motion, and three bril- knows all too well that liantly realized voices— “after a tragedy, many the boy’smother,his older survivors are lost.” In the sister, a German ex-pat sister, we see someone in- neighbor—summon this tent on embracing the world into existence. As “weapon of memory.” they struggle to make These voices speak whole sense of the tragedy, their lives, shaped in essential descriptions of its after- ways by the boy’s death, math mix with meditations and conversations and by the ways the past requires as much about other love tested, twisted, or lost— attention—and love—as the present.

Josephine Hart is the best-selling author of Damage, Sin, Obliv- • National Print Features ion, The Stillest Day, and The Reconstructionist. Her work has • National Print Advertising in The New been translated into twenty-seven languages. She lives in London York Times Book Review with her husband, Maurice Saatchi, and their two sons. • Reading Group Guide (Available at www.aaknopf.com at the time of publication) • Online Promotion on ReadingGroupGuides.com • Endcap/Author Poster (978-0-307-47138-3; n/c) • Jacket Blowups Available

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Amit Chaudhuri The Immortals A novel

rom the award-winning author of A New World, Fan incantatory new novel—at once plaintive and comic—about the powerful undercurrent of cultural and familial tradition in a society enthralled with the future. 1980s Bombay. Shyam Lal is a highly regarded voice teacher, trained in the classical idiom, but happily engaged in teaching the more popular songs to well-to-do women whose modern way of life he cov- ets. Sixteen-year-old Nirmalya Sengupta is the roman- tically rebellious scion of an affluent family, and wants only to study Indian classical music. With a little push from Nirmalya’s mother (Shyam’s prize pupil), Shyam agrees to accept Nirmalya as his student, entering into a relationship that will have unexpected and lasting consequences in both their lives. And as the novel unfolds, we see how the two families come to challenge and change each other, how student and teacher slowly mesh their differing visions of the world, and what place music holds in it. With exquisite sensuous detail, with quiet humor, generosity, and unsentimental poignancy, The Im- • National Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books mortals gives us a luminous portrait of the spiritual and emotional force of a revered Indian tradition, of two fundamentally different but intricately inter- Available in Vintage paperback: twined families, and of a society choosing between Freedom Song $14.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-70400-0 the old and the new. A New World $12.00 (NCR) • 978-0-375-72480-0 Amit Chaudhuri is the author of several award-winning novels, as well as being an internationally acclaimed musician and essay- ist. Freedom Song: Three Novels received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. He is a contributor to London Review of Books, Granta, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is currently professor of contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.

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Melanie Gideon The Slippery Year A Meditation on Happily Ever After

or anyone who has soon she is going to sleep- Fever wondered Is this walk through the rest of all there is, Melanie her life. Devastating and Gideon’s poignant, hilari- sweet, moving and power- ous, exuberant medita- fully affirmative, The Slip- tion on the indignities pery Year is a conversation and consolations of mod- about all the things that ern domestic life will be matter: children, summer an inspiration to live dresses, sisters, dogs, love, more fully, laugh more loss, the passage of time— deeply, love more pas- andallthereasonstogoon sionately, and appreciate living when the only thing the inescapable absurdi- we can be certain of is that ties of every day. one day it will all end. The A few weeks before her SlipperyYearisthestoryof forty-fourthbirthday, Mel- a woman who consciously anie Gideon has an epiph- chooses to find beauty,sig- any: sooner, rather than nificance, and meaning, later, she is going to die. not by chucking it all but She realizes that if she by embracing the life she doesn’t wake herself up already has.

“Funny, wrenching and spot-on. Get ready to Melanie Gideon lives in San Francisco with her husband weep and laugh. Gideon weaves a kind of and son. The first chapter of The Slippery Year originally magic here, polishing the days until they gleam appeared in slightly altered form in the “Modern Love” like gold.” —Julia Scheeres, column of The New York Times. author of Jesusland

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Now in Paperback Eric Lax Conversations with Woody Allen His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking Updated and Expanded n discussions that begin in 1971 and end in 2009, IAllen talks about every facet of moviemaking through the prism of his own work as well as the larger world of film, and in so doing reveals an artist’s development over the course of his career. He speaks about his influences and about the genesis of his ideas; about writing, casting, acting, shooting, directing, editing, and scoring—and throughout shows himself to be thoughtful, honest, self-deprecating, always witty, and often hilarious.

“Fascinating . . . Readers will find a trove of Woody- on-Woody insight [and] something interesting on nearly every page.” —Baltimore Sun

“Lax’s informed questions . . . allow Allen to speak with intelligence and maturity.” —The Washington Post Available in Vintage paperback: “Mesmerizing.” —Financial Times Woody Allen $13.00 (Can. $16.50) • 978-0-679-73847-3 “Remarkable . . . Fresh with an immediacy often missing in a retrospective.” —Raleigh News & Observer

“You feel that you are in the same room, listening to someone asking intelligent, informed questions and hearing the subject giving intelligent, relaxed answers . . . An entertaining book.” —The Washington Times

Eric Lax is also the author of Woody Allen: A Biography and coauthor (with A. M. Sperber) of Bogart. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and the Los Angeles Times. He is an officer of In- ternational PEN and lives in Los Angeles.

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September Kazuo Ishiguro Nocturnes Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

ne of the most celebrated writers of our time Ogives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character. A once-popular singer, desperate to make a come- back, turning from the one certainty in his life . . . a man whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him . . . a struggling singer- songwriter unwittingly involved in the failing marriage of a couple he’s only just met . . . a gifted, underappreciated jazz musician who lets himself be- lieve that plastic surgery will help his career . . . a young cellist whose tutor promises to “unwrap” his talent . . . Passion or necessity—or the often uneasy combina- tion of the two—determines the place of music in each of these lives. And as a result, these men and women find themselves at a moment of reckoning: sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes just eluding their grasp. In an exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, Ishiguro reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision • National Media Appearances, including and subtlety,and with the arresting psychological and NPR and print features emotional detail that has marked all of his acclaimed • National Print Advertising in The New York Times Book Review and The New and best-selling works of fiction. Yorker • Endcap/Author Poster (9780307471338; Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six previous novels, including n/c) Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, which won the • Jacket Blowups Available Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film. Ishiguro’swork has been translated into forty languages. In 1995, he received an Order of the British Empire for service to litera- Available in Vintage paperback: ture, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et An Artist of the Floating World des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with $13.95 (NCR) • 978-0-679-72266-3 his wife and daughter. Never Let Me Go $14.00 (NCR) • 978-1-4000-7877-6 Also available from Random House Audio A Pale View of Hills $12.95 (NCR) • 978-0-679-72267-0 The Remains of the Day $14.95 (NCR) • 978-0-679-73172-6 5 3 The Unconsoled Fiction • 5 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄8 • 240 pages $15.95 (NCR) • 978-0-679-73587-8 $25.00 • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27102-0 When We Were Orphans Knopf Canada: $29.95 • 978-0-307-39787-4 $14.95 (NCR) • 978-0-375-72440-4

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KNOPF POETRY IN PAPERBACK Frank O’Hara Selected Poems Edited by Mark Ford he first new selection of O’Hara’s work to come along in several Tdecades. In this “marvellous compilation” (The New Yorker), editor Mark Ford reacquaints us with one of the most joyous and innovative poets of the postwar period. “Sensitively chosen and intelligently introduced . . . Ford’s selection makes it possible to see more clearly how inward O’Hara’s poetry was at its best . . . For O’Hara a poem was truthful when it was personal . . . [His] elegies succeed because long after he discarded any religious belief in immortality, he retained the aesthetic sensibility that took it seri- ously.” —Edward Mendelson, The New York Review of Books Frank O’Hara was the author of six volumes of poetry, the first of which was published in 1952. He was a curator at the Museum of Modern Art and wrote numerous essays on painting and sculpture. He died in 1966 at the age of forty.

Mark Ford has published several books of poetry and is the author of the critical biography Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams.

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Mary Jo Salter A Phone Call to the Future New and Selected Poems his “wholly attractive volume” that brings together twenty-five years Tof “elegantly shaped and voiced creations” (William Pritchard, The Boston Globe) offers a generous sampling of Mary Jo Salter’s five previous award-winning volumes and a collection of superb new poems. A mid-career retrospective of one of the major poets of her generation. “Only a few poets transcend the history of taste to participate in the history of art—and only in a handful of poems. Salter has been struck by lightning more than once.” —James Longenbach, The New York Times Book Review “Poems that are deeply human, brilliantly realized, and refreshingly perceptive.” —Julie Hale, BookPage Mary Jo Salter is the author of five previous books of poetry and a children’s book, The Moon Comes Home. She is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hop- Available in Knopf paperback: kinsUniversity.ShedivideshertimebetweenAmherst,Massachusetts,andBaltimore. Open Shutters $16.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-71014-8 7 3 Poetry • 5 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄8 • 240 pages • paperback $18.00 (Can. $22.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-71156-5

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Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns The National Parks America’s Best Idea

he companion ment and continued Tvolume to the protection of the new Ken Burns film: a parks, from the fa- magnificently illus- mous figures—John trated history of the Muir, Teddy Roo- American National sevelt, John D. Rock- Park System. efeller Jr. among In a rich, evocative, them—to the unsung deeply informative men and women. narrative, Dayton Here too are six ex- Duncan and Ken tended interviews with Burns examine how people whose lives each new park was have been shaped by brought into the their connections to system—from the ad- the American land- ventures and myth- scape (including Terry making to the intense Tempest Williams) political battles—and and a vast array of capture the particular breathtaking photo- importance, splendors, and ideals embodied graphs, both archival and contemporary. in each place. They introduce us to the peo- A glorious celebration of one of the most es- ple who were instrumental in the establish- sential expressions of American democracy.

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See page 104 for author biographies and backlist. With 440 color and black-and-white illustrations 7 7 Also available from Random House Audio Bound with removable full-color map, 15 ⁄8 x 21 ⁄8, of all the National Parks 3 7 History • 9 ⁄16 x 10 ⁄8 • 432 pages $50.00 (Can. $62.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26896-9

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Caryl Phillips In the Falling Snow A novel

searing new novel from one of our most ad- Amired writers: the story of a man at a turning point in his life and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another. Keith—born in the 1960s to immigrant West In- dian parents, raised primarily by his white step- mother—is in his forties, a social worker heading a Race Equality unit in London whose life has come undone: separated from his wife of twenty years (her family “let her go” for marrying a black man); kept at arm’s length by his seventeen-year-old son; es- tranged from his father; accused of harassment by a coworker. And beneath it all, a desperate feeling that his work and he himself are no longer relevant. Moving between past and present, the narrative uncovers the particulars of class, background, tem- perament, and desire that have brought Keith to this moment; and reveals how,often unwittingly,his wife, his son, and his father help him grasp the breadth of the changes that have occurred around him—and • National Print Advertising in Harper’s and The New York Review of Books what those changes will require of him. At once intimate and expansive, deeply moving in its portrayal of A selection of titles available in Vintage the vagaries of familial love and bold in its scrutiny of paperback: the personal and societal politics of race, this is Caryl The Atlantic Sound Phillips’s most powerful novel yet. $13.95 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-70103-0 Cambridge Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and brought up $13.95 (NCR) • 978-0-679-73689-9 in England. He is the author of three books of nonfiction and Crossing the River nine novels. His novel Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN $13.00 (NCR) • 978-0-679-75794-8 Beyond Margins Award, and an earlier novel, A Distant Shore, Dancing in the Dark won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize. His other awards $13.95 (Can. $18.95) • 978-1-4000-7983-4 include the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Award, a Guggen- A Distant Shore heim fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is $14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-1-4000-3450-5 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently lives in Foreigners New York. $14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-1-4000-7984-1

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Karen Armstrong The Case for God

nuanced exploration the efficacy of faith. Why Aof the part religion has God become incredi- plays in human life, past ble? Why is it that athe- and present, from one of ists and theists alike now the foremost commenta- think and speak about tors on religion at work God in a way that devi- today. ates so profoundly from Moving from the Pa- the thinking of our an- leolithic Age to the pres- cestors? Answering these ent, Karen Armstrong questions with the same details the great lengths depth of knowledge and to which humankind has profound insight that gone in order to experi- have marked all of her ence a sacred reality that acclaimed books, Arm- it has called God, Brah- strong makes clear how man, Nirvana, Allah, or the changing face of the Dao. Focusing especially world has necessarily on Christianity but in- changed the importance cluding Judaism, Islam, of religion at both the so- Buddhism, Hinduism, cietal and the individual and Chinese spirituality, level. And she makes a Armstrong examines the diminished im- powerful, convincing argument for drawing pulse toward religion in our own time, on the insights of the past in order to build a when a significant number of people either faith that speaks to the needs of our danger- want nothing to do with God or question ously polarized age.

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Peter Maass Crude World The Violent Twilight of Oil

stunning and revealing examination of oil’s in- Adelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it. Every unhappy oil-producing nation is unhappy in its own way, but all are touched by the “resource curse”—the power of oil to exacerbate existing prob- lems and to create new ones. New York Times Mag- azine writer Peter Maass employs tireless reporting and an eye for detail to present a vivid portrait of the world oil has created. He takes us to Saudi Arabia, where officials deflect inquiries about the amount of oil remaining in the country’s largest oil reservoir; to Equatorial Guinea, where two tennis courts grace the oil-rich dictator’s estate but bandages and aspirin are a hospital’s only supplies; and to Venezuela, where Hugo Chávez’s campaign to redistribute oil wealth creates new economic and political crises. Maass also introduces us to an American lawyer leading Ecuado- rians in an unprecedented lawsuit against Chevron; a Russian oil magnate imprisoned for his defiance of Vladimir Putin’s leadership; Nigerian villagers whose livelihoods are destroyed by the discovery of oil. • National Media Appearances, including Rebels, royalty, environmentalists, indigenous ac- C-SPAN, NPR, and print features tivists, CEOs—their stories, deftly and sensitively pre- • 6-city Author Tour: Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, sented, tell the larger story of oil in our time. and Washington, D.C. Crude World is a harrowing and essential account • National Print Advertising in The New of the consequences of our addiction to oil. York Times Magazine Peter Maass is a contributing writer to The New York Times Available in Vintage paperback: Magazine and has reported from the Middle East, Asia, South Love Thy Neighbor America, and Africa. He has written as well for The New Yorker, $14.95 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-679-76389-5 The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, and Slate. Maass is the author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, which chron- icled the Bosnian war and won prizes from The Overseas Press Club and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in New York City.

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58 Alfred A. Knopf SEPTEMBER 22112_K-Fa09_f_MM.qxp:K-Fa09_1p_r1 3/6/09 3:21 PM Page 59

Lorrie Moore A Gate at the Stairs A novel

he long-awaited new novel—a book of stunning power—by Tone of the most heralded writers of the past thirty years. Set just after the events of September 2001, about a twenty-year-old woman from a small midwestern farm, making her way, coming of age. Under the novel’s languid, easygoing surface, Moore’s deft, lyrical writing brings us up against the heart of racism, the shock of war, and the carelessness perpetrated against others in the name of love.

• Advance Reader’s Edition Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San • Reading Group Guide • National Media Appearances, Francisco, Seattle, and (Available at www.aaknopf.com including NPR and print Washington, D.C. at the time of publication) features • National Print Advertising in • Online Promotion on • 13-city Author Tour: Boston, The New York Times Book ReadingGroupGuides.com Chicago, Los Angeles, Review • Endcap/Author Poster Madison, Miami, Milwaukee, (9780307471277; n/c) Minneapolis, New York, • Jacket Blowups Available

Available in Vintage paperback: Lorrie Moore is the author of the story collections Birds of Amer- Anagrams ica, Like Life, and Self-Help, and the novels Who Will Run the $13.95 (Can. $17.95) • 978-0-307-27728-2 Frog Hospital? and Anagrams. Her work has won honors from Like Life the Lannan Foundation, The Irish Times, and the American $13.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-0-375-71916-5 Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Rea Award and the Self-Help PEN/Malamud Award. She is a professor of English at the Uni- $13.95 (Can. $15.95) • 978-0-307-27729-9 versity of Wisconsin in Madison. Who Will Run The Frog Hospital? $12.95 (Can. $19.95) • 978-1-4000-3382-9 5 3 Fiction • 5 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄8 • 336 pages $25.00 • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-40928-8 Doubleday Canada: $29.95 • 978-0-385-66824-8

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Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Half the Sky Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

call to arms against our era’s most pervasive Ahuman rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of women struggling under profoundly dire circumstances: a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery; an Ethiopian woman left for dead after a difficult birth; an Afghan wife beaten ruthlessly by her husband and mother-in-law. But we meet, as well, those who have triumphed—a formerly illiterate fis- tula patient who became a surgeon in Addis Ababa; an Indian woman who saved herself and her children from prostitution—and those who make it their work to provide hope and help to other women: the victim of gang rape who galvanized the international com- munity and created schools in rural Pakistan; the former Peace Corps volunteer who founded an organization that educates and campaigns for women’s rights in Senegal. Through their stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to progress lies in unleashing women’s potential—and they make clear how each of us can help make that happen. Fiercely moral, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.

• National Media Appearances, including Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, husband and wife, won C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China as New York Times print features correspondents. Mr. Kristof won a second Pulitzer for his op-ed • 7-city Author Tour: Boston, Chicago, columns in the Times. He has also served as bureau chief in Hong Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo, and as associate managing editor. At Seattle, and Washington, D.C. the Times, Ms. WuDunn worked as a business editor and as a • Online Advertising on foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Beijing. They live in the New TheNewYorkTimes.com York area. • Jacket Blowups Available

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Anne Tyler Noah’s Compass A novel

rom Anne Tyler, a Baltimore. All he knows Fwise, gently humor- when he wakes up a day ous, and deeply compas- later in the hospital is that sionate novel about a his head is sore and ban- schoolteacher, forced to daged. retire at sixty-one, com- His effort to recover ing to terms with the final the moments of his life phase of his life. that have been stolen Liam Pennywell, who from him leads him on an set out to be a philosopher unexpected detour. What and ended up teaching fifth he needs is someone who grade,nevermuchlikedthe can do the remembering job at that run-down pri- for him. What he gets vate school, so early retire- is—well, something quite ment doesn’t bother him. different. What does bother him is We all know a Liam. In thathehaslostthememory fact, there may be a little of what happened the first of Liam in each of us. night after he moved into Which is why Anne his spare, efficient condo- Tyler’s lovely novel res- minium on the outskirts of onates so deeply.

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and • National Print Features grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is her eighteenth novel. • National Print Advertising Campaign, Her eleventh, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize including The New York Times Book in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy and Institute Review and The New Yorker of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. • Radio Giveaway Promotion • 9-copy Floor Display (9780307471321; Also available from Random House Audio $233.55/NCR) • Reading Group Guide (Available at Also available in a Random House Large Print Edition www.aaknopf.com at the time of $26.95 (NCR) • 978-0-7393-2864-4 publication) • Online Promotion at ReadingGroupGuides.com • Author web page • Downloadable Shelf-talker (Available at www.aaknopf.com/marketing) • Jacket Blowups Available

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Judith Jones The Pleasures of Cooking for One With more than 150 recipes

rom the legendary ed- leftovers to innovate— Fitor of some of the the remains of beef bour- world’s greatest cooks— guignon are transformed including Julia Child and into a ragu, pork tender- James Beard—a delight- loin becomes a stir-fry, ful book about the joys of red snapper is reinvented cooking for one. as a summery salad. In a book as passion- Jones is both an in- ate as it is practical, Ju- structor and a mentor, dith Jones demonstrates suggesting basic recipes that cooking for one for items—such as mari- presents unparalleled pos- nara sauce or home- sibilities for both pleas- made stock—that all ure and experimentation: cooks should have on we can cook with what- hand, teaching us how ever ingredients appeal to improvise through in- to us, using farmers’ mar- genious weekly menus, kets and specialty shops and supplying us with a to enrich our palates and lifetime’s worth of tips improve our health; we and strategies. can feel free to fail, since The Pleasures of Cook- the meal doesn’t have to be perfect (we have ing for One is a vibrant, wise celebration of only ourselves to impress); and we can use food and our own company.

Judith Jones is senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. • National Media Appearances, including Knopf. She is the author of The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food and NPR and print features the coauthor with Evan Jones (her late husband) of three books: • Author Tour: New York, Boston/New The Book of Bread; Knead It, Punch It, Bake It!; and The Book England, and Washington, D.C. of New New England Cookery. She also collaborated with • National Print Advertising in The New Angus Cameron on The L. L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook, York Times Magazine and has contributed to Vogue, Saveur, and Gourmet magazines. • Online Advertising on Epicurious.com In 2006, she was awarded the James Beard Foundation Lifetime and Facebook Achievement Award. She lives in New York City and Vermont.

Available in Anchor paperback: The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food $14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-0-307-27744-2

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James Ellroy Blood’s A Rover A novel

olitical noir as only paving the way for the PJames Ellroy can write mob’s casinos in the Do- it. The incendiary stand- minican Republic. A alone sequel to American young L.A. “wheelman” Tabloid and The Cold Six for divorce lawyers within Thousand—a massive tale tantalizing reach of the of corruption and retri- men who killed the bution, conspiracy and Kennedys and Martin cover-up. Luther King and took us It is summer,1968. The to the threshold of Water- country is exploding. We gate. Their lives collide in are running point with pursuit of the “Red God- three men: a Klan-raised, dess Joan”—and they Yale-educated FBI agent will all pay “a dear and infiltrating black-militant savage price to live His- groups at J. Edgar Hoo- tory.” ver’s racist behest and Once again James Ell- obsessed with a leftist roy razes and reconstructs shadow figure named our recent past. Blood’s A Joan Rosen Klein. An ex- Rover is his largest and cop and heroin runner greatest work of fiction.

James Ellroy’s previous novels American Tabloid and The zine’s Best Book (fiction) of 1995; My Dark Places, a Cold Six Thousand began the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. memoir, was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New His L.A. Quartet novels—The Black Dahlia, The Big York Times Notable Book for 1996; The Cold Six Thou- Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz—were inter- sand was a Los Angeles Times Best Book and a New York national best sellers. American Tabloid was Time maga- Times Notable Book for 2001. Ellroy lives in Los Angeles.

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Carol Berkin Civil War Wives The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimké Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant

n the life stories of three “accidental heroes”— Iwomen whose marriages provided them with posi- tion and perspective they would not otherwise have had—Carol Berkin, one of the nation’s premier his- torians, offers a unique understanding of the tumul- tuous social and political landscape of their time. Drawing on private and public records, Berkin shows us how Angelina Grimké Weld bravely re- nounced her Southern family’s values, embracing the anti-slavery movement, only to find her voice silenced by marriage to fellow reformer Theodore Weld. In Varina Howell Davis, we see an independent mind and spirit that incurred the disapproval of her husband, Jefferson Davis, and made her ill-suited for her role as First Lady of the Confederacy, but served her well when she was lobbying for her husband’s release from prison. The wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Julia Dent Grant, was a model of genteel domesticity, content with the restrictions of motherhood and with the al- ternating fame and disgrace, wealth and poverty, that her marriage entailed, until late in life when she glimpsed the price of dependency. • National Media Appearances, including Bringing these three remarkable women vividly C-SPAN, NPR, and print features alive, Berkin captures the tensions and animosities of • 4-city Author Tour: Atlanta, Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. the prewar era and the disruptions and anxieties gen- erated by the war and its aftermath, and connects us to our national past with rare immediacy and verve. Available in Vintage paperback: Revolutionary Mothers $14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-1-4000-7532-4 Carol Berkin received her B.A. from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is currently Baruch College Presidential Professor of History and also teaches at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Revolutionary Mothers, A Brilliant Solution, Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American Loyalist, and First Generations: Women in Colonial America. She lives in New York City and Guilford, Connecticut.

With 6 photographs in text 1 1 History • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 384 pages $27.95 (Can. $34.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-1-4000-4446-7

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Kay Redfield Jamison Nothing Was the Same A memoir

rom the internation- overpowering grief, and Fally acclaimed author her efforts to distinguish of An Unquiet Mind, a grief from depression. haunting meditation on But she also recalls the mortality, grief, and loss. joy that Richard brought Perhaps no one but Kay her during the nearly Jamison—who combines twenty years they had the acute perceptions of a together. Wryly humor- psychologist with writerly ous anecdotes mingle elegance and passion— with bittersweet memo- could bring such a delicate ries of a relationship touch to the subject of los- that was passionate and ing a spouse to cancer. In loving—if troubled on spare and at times strik- occasion by her manic ingly lyrical prose, Jami- depression—as Jamison son looks back at her reveals the ways in relationship with her hus- which Richard taught band, Richard Wyatt, a her to live fully through renowned scientist who his courage and grace. battled severe dyslexia to become one of the A penetrating study of grief viewed from foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with deep inside the experience itself, Nothing Was characteristic honesty, she describes his slow the Same is also a deeply moving memoir by a surrender to cancer, her own struggle with superb writer.

Kay Redfield Jamison is professor of psychiatry at the Johns • National Media Appearances, including Hopkins University School of Medicine and codirector of the NPR and print features Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center. She is the author of the • 10-city Author Tour: Baltimore, Boston, national best sellers An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls Fast; co- Denver,Los Angeles, Miami, New York, author of the standard medical text on manic-depressive (bipolar) Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and illness; and the author or coauthor of more than one hundred Washington, D.C. scientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psycho- • National Print Advertising in The New pharmacology. She is the recipient of numerous national and York Times Book Review international scientific awards and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship. Available from Vintage paperback: Exuberance $14.95 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-70148-1 Night Falls Fast $14.95 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-70147-4

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Franz Wright Wheeling Motel Poems

rom the indomitable Franz Wright, a luminous Fbook of reconciliation with the past and accep- tance of what may come in the future. From his earliest years, he writes in “Will,” he had “the gift of impermanence / so I would be ready, / accompanied / by a rage to prove them wrong . . . that I too was worthy of love.” This rage comes coupled with the poet’s own brand of love, what he calls “one / strange alone / heart’s wish / to help all / hearts.” Po- etry is indeed Wright’s help, and he delivers it to us with a wry sense of the daily in America: in his wonderfully local relationship to God (whom he encounters along with a catfish in the emerald shallows of Walden Pond); in the little West Virginia motel of the title poem, on the banks of the Ohio River, where Tammy Wynette’son the marquee and he is visited by the figure of Walt Whitman, “examining the tear on a dead face.” In Wheeling Motel, Wright’s poetry continues to surprise us with its frank appraisal of our soul, with his combustible loneliness and unstoppable joy. Franz Wright’s most recent works include Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (which won the At 54 Pulitzer Prize for poetry), God’s Silence, and An instant of lucidity, an hour Earlier Poems. He has been the recipient of two outside of time, National Endowment for the Arts grants, a a life— Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, I glance at the left hand and the PEN/Voelcker Award, among other unclenched in the sunlight honors. He lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, shining on my desk with his wife, the translator and writer Elizabeth and think of my friend’s Oehlkers Wright. recent cremation— that takes a while. And I can’t wait Available in Knopf paperback: to return to this chair in which I am sitting, this The Beforelife $15.00 (Can. $23.00) • 978-0-375-70943-2 world, the one where each object stands Earlier Poems $18.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-71146-6 for nothing at all but its own inexplicable existence. God’s Silence $16.00 (Can. $19.00) • 978-0-375-71081-0 Walking to Martha’s Vineyard $15.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-71001-8 7 3 Poetry • 5 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄8 • 112 pages $26.00 (Can. $32.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26568-5

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October Gail Buckland Who Shot Rock & Roll A Photographic History, 1950–Present

he first book to Wertheimer ...Bob T explore the extra- Dylan and girlfriend ordinary work of the on a snowy Green- photographers who wich Village street, with their spectacular by Don Hunstein . . . images captured the en- John Lennon in ergy, intoxication, re- sleeveless New York bellion, and magic of City T-shirt, by Bob rock and roll. Gruen ...Jimi Hen- Who Shot Rock & drix, by Gered Mank- Roll brings together owitz, a photograph two hundred photo- made into a poster that graphs, including many hung on the walls of rare and never-before- millions of bedrooms seen images: searing, and college dorms . . . sensual, luminous, With text and cap- and often iconic por- tions by Gail Buckland, traits; album covers; behind-the-scenes and who writes about the photographs and the live concert shots. Here is Elvis in 1956— men and women who took them; about how not yet mythic but already beautiful, ten- they saw what they saw and captured what der, and sexy—photographed by Alfred they did: the spirit and essence of rock.

Gail Buckland has written and collaborated on eleven books of • National Media Appearances, including photographic history, including Fox Talbot and the Invention of NPR and print features Photography, The Magic Image (with Cecil Beaton), and The • Author Tour: Los Angeles, New York, American Century (with Harold Evans). She is former curator of and San Francisco the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, professor of the • Interviews/Promotions on Rock Radio history of photography at The Cooper Union, and guest curator Stations at many American museums. She lives in Warwick, New York, • Online Advertising on RollingStone.com and New York City. and TheOnion.com • Music Blog Advertising, including LargeHearted Boy and StereoGum • Jacket Blowups Available

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Wil Haygood Sweet Thunder The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson

rom the author of the critically acclaimed Sammy FDavis, Jr., biography In Black and White, a sweeping biography–cum–cultural history centered around one of the most iconic figures of boxing. Wil Haygood grounds the story of Sugar Ray Robinson’s spectacular rise to greatness firmly within the historical context of his lifetime: born in 1921, Robinson came of age when the country seethed with virulent racism. Georgia was his birthplace, but from the time he was young, Harlem was his home. It was there that he began boxing, at thirteen, and, in the 1940s and 1950s, became a staple figure, glamorous and electrifying, emerging as a powerful symbol of Black America. Among the great strengths of the book are the vivid descriptions of Sugar Ray’s unique blend of grace and ferocity in the ring. But with equal vividness, the author describes Robinson’s life outside the ring, weav- ing in portraits of Langston Hughes, Lena Horne, and Miles Davis—whose lives not only intersected with Sugar Ray’s but also contribute to the illumina- tion of his moment in our cultural and political his- • National Media Appearances, including tory. NPR and print features From scrappy street kid to cultural icon to the rel- • 4-city Author Tour: Atlanta, Detroit, New York, and Washington, D.C. ative obscurity of his last years, Sugar Ray comes • Online Advertising on sports sites and on hauntingly and powerfully to life against the vivid Facebook backdrop of the world he captivated. • Jacket Blowups Available Wil Haygood, who lives in Washington, D.C., is a staff writer for the Style section of The Washington Post. In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. received the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award, the ASCAP Deems Tay- lor Outstanding Musical Biography Award, and the Nonfiction Book of the Year award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and it was named one of the top ten books of the year by the Chicago Tribune.

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A. S. Byatt The Children’s Book A novel

rom the Booker Prize–winning author of Posses- Fsion, a dazzling new novel that spans the years from the Victorian era through World War I and cen- ters around a famous children’s book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves. When Olive Wellwood’soldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the Victoria and Albert Museum—a boy who could be a character out of one of Olive’s magical tales—she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. But the midsummer bacchanals the Wellwoods host at their rambling country house—and the private books that Olive writes for each of her seven children—conceal more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined. As these lives—of adults and children alike—unfold, lies are revealed, hearts are broken, and the damaging truth about the Well- woods is slowly uncovered. Yet a far larger danger awaits: the Great War lies ahead, and it will leave no one unscathed. Advance Reader’s Edition • Suspenseful, seductive, at once sweeping and inti- • National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features mate, The Children’s Book is a masterly literary • 12-city Author Tour: Bloomington, IN, achievement by one of our most essential writers. Buffalo, Cincinnati, Columbus, Hartford, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, A. S. Byatt is the author of numerous novels, including A Raleigh/Durham, Richmond, Rochester, Whistling Woman, The Biographer’s Tale, Babel Tower, and Pos- and San Francisco session, which was awarded the Booker Prize. She has also writ- • National Print Advertising in The New ten two novellas, published together as Angels & Insects; five York Times Book Review collections of shorter works, including Little Black Book of Sto- • Reading Group Guide (Available at ries; and several works of nonfiction. A distinguished critic as www.aaknopf.com at the time of well as a novelist, she lives in London. publication) • Downloadable Shelf-talker (Available at Also available from Random House Audio www.aaknopf.com/marketing) • Jacket Blowups Available

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Roberto Calasso Tiepolo Pink

he eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giovanni TBattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commis- sions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with fres- coes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around him—but though his contemporaries appreciated and admired him, they failed to understand him. Few have even attempted to tackle Tiepolo’s series of thirty-three bizarre and haunting etchings, the Capricci and the Scherzi, but Roberto Calasso rises to the challenge, interpreting these etchings as chapters in a dark narrative that contains the secret of Tiepolo’s art. Calasso makes clear that Tiepolo was more than a dazzling intermezzo in the history of painting. Rather, he represented a particular way of meeting the challenge of form: endowed with a fluid, seemingly effort- less style, Tiepolo was the last incarnation of that peculiar Italian virtue sprezzatura, the art of not seem- ing artful. • National Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books Roberto Calasso is the author of, among other works, The Ruin of Kasch; The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, which won Available in Vintage paperback: the Prix Veillon and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; Ka; and K. K. Together with Tiepolo Pink, these books form a work in $15.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-1-4000-7612-3 progress, all of whose parts deal with highly diverse yet closely in- Ka terconnected materials. Born in Florence, Calasso now lives in $16.00 (Can. $20.00) • 978-0-679-77547-8 Milan. Literature and the Gods $13.00 (Can. $20.00) • 978-0-375-72543-2 The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony $15.95 • 978-0-679-73348-5

Translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen With 81 full-color illustrations in text 5 3 Art • 5 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄8 • 320 pages $40.00 (Can. $47.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26766-5

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Peter Mayle The Vintage Caper A novel

eter Mayle’s newest and most delightful novel of PFrance, filled with mouthwatering food, sumptu- ous wines, colorful characters, and lots of fun. The story begins in Hollywood, at the expensive home—and impressive wine cellar—of lawyer Danny Roth. Unfortunately, after inviting the Los Angeles Times to write an extensive piece on the treasures of his collection, Roth finds himself the victim of a world-class wine heist. Enter Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer, wine connoisseur, and expert on cultivated crime. Called in by Roth’s insurance company—now saddled with a multimillion-dollar claim—Sam follows his leads, first to Bordeaux and the magnificent vineyards where so much wine is aged into delectable existence and then to Provence and the collectors who he rightly assumes might have envied Roth’s collection. Along the way, bien sûr, he’s joined by a beautiful and intelligent French colleague. The unraveling of the ingenious crime is threaded through with Mayle’s seductive rendering of France’s • National Media Appearances, including NPR sensory delights—from a fine Pinchon-Lalande and • National Print Features, including food Léoville Barton to the bouillabaisse of Marseille and and wine publications young lamb in Bordeaux. Even the most sophisticated • 10-city Author Tour: Atlanta, Boston, of oenophiles will learn a thing or two in this vintage Chicago, Denver,Los Angeles, Miami, work from a beloved author. New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Peter Mayle is the author of eleven previous books, five of them • National Print Advertising in The New York Times Book Review novels. He has received the Légion d’Honneur from the French government for his cultural contributions. He has been living in Online Advertising, including • Provence with his wife, Jennie, for almost twenty-five years. Fodors.com, Facebook, and Google ad words Also available from Random House Audio • Author Web page (PeterMayle.net) • Endcap/Author Poster (9780307471390; n/c) • Downloadable Shelf-talker (Available at www.aaknopf.com/marketing) • Jacket Blowups Available

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Chinua Achebe The Education of a British-Protected Child Essays

new collection of Visitations,” we witness Aautobiographical es- the terrifying nature of the says from the celebrated African diaspora and what author of Things Fall it means not to know Apart—his first new book “from whence he came.” in more than twenty years. Politics and history figure Chinua Achebe’s char- in “What Is Nigeria to acteristically measured and Me?,” “Africa’s Tarnished nuanced voice is every- Name,” and “Politics of where present in these sev- the Politicians of Lan- enteen beautifully written guage.” And Achebe’s ex- pieces. In “The Education traordinary family comes of a British-Protected into view in “My Dad and Child,” Achebe gives us a Me” and “My Daugh- vivid portrait of growing ters.” up in colonial Nigeria and Charmingly personal, inhabiting its “middle intellectually disciplined, ground,” recalling both his and steadfastly wise, The happy memories of read- Education of a British- ing novels in secondary Protected Child is an in- school and the harsher dispensable addition to truths of colonial rule. In “African-American the remarkable Achebe oeuvre.

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Mitchell Zuckoff Robert Altman The Oral Biography

obert Altman—visionary director, risk-taking Rproducer; eccentric family man, Hollywood icon—comes brilliantly to life in this rollicking oral biography. Altman burst onto the scene as a major film director in 1970 with M*A*S*H. His groundbreaking style helped usher in a new era of American filmmaking, and his most famous films—Nashville, Short Cuts, and The Player, among them—manipulated genre and form in ways that had never been done before nor replicated since. Here, in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque, the director’s life and career are re- counted by those who knew him best: his sisters, wives, children, and old girlfriends; agents, producers, writers, fellow directors, and studio executives. We hear from Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty,Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Paul Newman, Julie Christie, Elliott Gould, Robin Williams, and many others. We even hear from Altman himself. Mitchell Zuckoff, who was working with Altman on his memoirs before he died, weaves the interviews • National Media Appearances, including together into a seamless, riveting tale of an extraordi- NPR and print features nary life. From revelations about the director’s wom- • Author Tour: Boston, Los Angeles, and New York anizing and his brief career as a dog tattoo • National Print Advertising, including The entrepreneur to the heart transplant he tried to keep New York Times and LA Weekly secret and his notorious tempestuous nature, here is • Extensive Online Advertising on film Robert Altman as we’ve never seen him. sites • Jacket Blowups Available Mitchell Zuckoff is a professor of journalism at Boston Univer- sity. He is the author of three previous books, most recently Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend. As a re- Also available from Random House Audio porter with The Boston Globe, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and the recipient of numerous national writing awards. He lives near Boston with his wife and daughters.

With 119 photographs in text 1 1 Film/Biography • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 592 pages $35.00 (Can. $42.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26768-9

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Philip Levine News of the World Poems

new collection from “a great American poet . . . Astill at work on his almost-song of himself” (The New York Times Book Review). In both lively prose poems and more formal verse Philip Levine brings us news from everywhere: from Detroit, where exhausted workers try to find a decent breakfast after the late shift, and Henry Ford, “supremely bored” in his mansion, clocks in at the plant . . . from Spain, where a woman sings a song that rises at dawn through an open window like the dust of ages . . . from Andorra, where an old commu- nist can now supply you with anything you want—a French radio, a Cadillac, or, if you have a week, an American film star. There are poems about a haunting past—an immigrant working in a loud automotive shop yearns for the silence of his native Siberia—and about a haunted present: in “Our Valley,” the presence of the ocean, “something massive, irrational, powerful” on the other side of mountains that “maintain that huge silence we think of as divine.” Available in Knopf paperback: Breath You have to remember this isn’t your land. $15.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-71078-0 It belongs to no one, like the sea you once lived beside The Mercy and thought was yours. Remember the small boats $16.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-70135-1 that bobbed out as the waves rode in, and the men New Selected Poems who carved a living from it only to find themselves $20.00 (Can. $27.95) • 978-0-679-74056-8 carved down to nothing. Now you say this is home, The Simple Truth so go ahead, worship the mountains as they dissolve in dust, $16.00 (Can. $24.00) • 978-0-679-76584-4 wait on the wind, catch a scent of salt, call it our life. What Work Is A rich, deeply felt collection from one of our mas- $15.00 (Can. $22.50) • 978-0-679-74058-2 ter poets.

Philip Levine was born and grew up in Detroit. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including the National Book Award in 1991 for What Work Is and the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for The Simple Truth. He divides his time between Fresno, Cali- fornia, and Brooklyn, New York.

Poetry • 6 x 9 • 80 pages $25.00 (Can. $29.95) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27223-2

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John Burdett The Godfather of Kathmandu A novel

onchai Jitpleecheep— Tietsin is enlightened and SJohn Burdett’s in- (eerily) charismatic, he imitable Thai police also has forty million dol- detective—is summoned lars of heroin for sale. If to the most shocking and Sonchai truly wants to be intriguing crime scene of an initiate into Tietsin’s his career. Solving the “apocalyptic Buddhism,” murder could mean a he has to pull off a deal promotion, but Sonchai, that will bring Vikorn reeling from a personal and Zinna to the same tragedy, is more inter- side of the table. The chal- ested in Tietsin, an exiled lenge is further compli- Tibetan lama based in cated when he meets Kathmandu who has be- Tara, a Tantric practi- come his guru. tioner who captivates him There are, however,ob- with her otherworldly stacles in Sonchai’s path techniques. to nirvana. Police Colonel Here is Sonchai put to Vikorn has just named the extreme test—as a Sonchai his consigliere cop, as a Buddhist, as an (he’s been studying The impossibly earthbound Godfather on DVD) in his ongoing battle with man—in John Burdett’s most wildly inven- Army General Zinna for control of Bangkok’s tive, darkly comic, and wickedly entertaining network of illegal enterprises. And though novel yet.

John Burdett is the author of A Personal History of Thirst, The • National Print Features Last Six Million Seconds, Bangkok 8, Bangkok Tattoo, and • National Print Advertising in The New Bangkok Haunts. He lives in Bangkok. York Times Book Review • Author Web page • Downloadable Shelf-talker (Available at www.aaknopf.com/marketing) • Jacket Blowups Available

Available in Vintage paperback: Bangkok 8 $13.95 (Can. $21.00) • 978–1-4000–3290–7 Bangkok Haunts $13.95 (Can. $15.95) • 978–1-4000–9706–7 1 1 Bangkok Tattoo Fiction • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 320 pages $13.95 (Can. $15.95) • 978–1-4000–3291–4 $24.95 (Can. $29.95) • ISBN/EAN: 978–0-307–26319–3

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Philip Caputo Crossers A novel

rom the acclaimed author of Acts of Faith (“A Fmiracle . . . You can hardly conceive of a more af- fecting reading experience”—Houston Chronicle), a blistering new novel about the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border and about the unyielding power of the past. When Gil Castle loses his wife in the destruction of 9/11, he retreats to his family’s sprawling ranch in Arizona. It’s a part of the world where drug lords have more power than police and violence is a constant presence. But it is also a world of vast, open space where Gil begins to rebuild his belief in the potential for happiness—until he starts to uncover the dark truths about his fearsome grandfather, a legacy that has been tightly shrouded in mystery in the years since the old man’s death. And when Gil comes to the aid of a Mexican man whose border-crossing drug deal has gone bad, his act of generosity sets off a flood of violence and vengeance, a fierce reminder of the • National Media Appearances, including fact that while he may be able to reinvent himself, he NPR and print features might never escape his family’s past. • 6-city Author Tour: Boston, Chicago, Searingly dramatic, bold and timely, Crossers is New England, New York, Phoenix, and Philip Caputo’s most ambitious and brilliantly real- Tucson ized novel yet. • National Print Advertising in The New York Times Book Review Philip Caputo worked for nine years for the Chicago Tribune and shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his reporting on election fraud Available in Vintage paperback: in Chicago. He is the author of seven other works of fiction and Acts of Faith two memoirs, including A Rumor of War, about his service in $15.95 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-72597-5 Vietnam, and four works of nonfiction. He divides his time be- Delcorso’s Gallery tween Connecticut and Arizona. $14.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-72509-8 Exiles $14.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-679-76838-8 Horn of Africa $15.00 (Can. $23.00) • 978-0-375-72511-1 Indian Country $15.00 (Can. $23.00) • 978-0-375-72510-4 The Voyage $15.95 (Can. $18.95) • 978-0-679-76839-5 1 1 Fiction • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 480 pages $27.95 (Can. $34.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-41167-0

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Christopher Andrew Defend the Realm A Centenary History of MI5

n unprecedented publishing event: to mark the Acentenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth- century British history, from its foundation by Cap- tain Kell of the British Army in October 1909, through two world wars, up to and including its present roles in counterespionage and counterterrorism. The book describes how MI5 has been managed, what its relationship has been with government, where it has triumphed, and where it has failed. In all of this no restriction has been placed on the judg- ments made by the author. Defend the Realm also reveals the identities of previously unknown enemies of the United Kingdom whose activities have been uncovered by the Service, adds significantly to our knowledge of many celebrated events and notorious individuals, and defini- tively lays to rest a number of persistent myths. Above all, it shows the place of this previously extremely se- cretive organization within the United Kingdom. Few • National Media Appearances, including books could make such an immediate and extraordi- C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and print features nary increase to our understanding of British history • 5-city Author Tour: Chicago, Los over the past century. Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Christopher Andrew is Britain’s leading historian of intelligence, • Online Advertising on TheNewYork professor of modern and contemporary history and chair of the Times.com, Slate.com, and history sites faculty of history at Cambridge University. He is also chair of the British Intelligence Study Group, coeditor of Intelligence and Na- tional Security, former visiting professor at Harvard, Toronto, Also available from Random House Audio and the Australian National University, and a regular presenter of BBC Radio and TV documentaries. His thirteen previous books include The Mitrokhin Archive, volumes 1 and 2, and a number of groundbreaking studies on the use and abuse of secret intelligence in modern history.

With 32 pages of photographs 1 1 Political Science/History • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 704 pages $40.00 (NCR) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26363-6

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Nicholas Fox Weber The Bauhaus Group Six Masters of Modernism

he acclaimed biographer of Le Corbusier, TBalthus, and Sterling and Stephen Clark now gives us a vibrant, intimate portrait of six of the extraordinary artists and architects at the Bauhaus, the pioneering German art school that, during its four- teen years of existence, from 1919 to 1933, made possible many of the twentieth century’s greatest paintings, changed the look of buildings, objects, and graphic design throughout the world, and profoundly altered our way of seeing. Nicholas Fox Weber, for more than three decades as director of the Albers Foundation, was a longtime friend of Josef and Anni Albers, the only husband- and-wife pair at the Bauhaus (he was a painter, she a textile designer and weaver) and was told their stories about life at the Bauhaus. Now Weber renders that place and time with unprecedented richness, focusing on the Alberses and on their fellow artists and teach- ers Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius. Weber brilliantly captures what is missing from all other Bauhaus books— a feeling for their exuberant embrace of life, the spirit and flare with which they lived and worked, and their all-consuming goal of making art and architecture new. A group portrait infused with the powerful force of the individual personalities and passions of six remarkable artists.

Nicholas Fox Weber was born in Connecticut and graduated from Columbia College and Yale University. He is the director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the author of thirteen previous books, among them Le Corbusier, The Clarks of Coop- erstown, Balthus, Patron Saints, Leland Bell, and The Art of Babar. He and his wife, the novelist Katharine Weber, live in Bethany, Connecticut, and in Paris.

• National Print Features • National Print Advertising in The New With 100 photographs in text and 16 pages of color York Review of Books 1 1 Art History • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 544 pages $35.00 (Can. $42.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26836-5

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Anne Rice Angel Time The Songs of the Seraphim A novel

nne Rice returns to stranger, a seraph, who Athe mesmerizing sto- offers him a chance to rytelling that has capti- save rather than destroy vated readers for more lives. O’Dare, who long than three decades in a ago dreamt of being tale of unceasing suspense a priest but, instead, set in time past—a meta- came to embody danger physical thriller about an- and violence, seizes his gels and assassins. chance. Now he is car- The novel opens in the ried back through the present. At its center: ages to thirteenth-century Toby O’Dare—a contract England, to dark realms killer of underground where accusations of rit- fame on assignment to kill ual murder have been once again. A soulless made against Jews, soul, a dead man walking, where children suddenly he lives under a series of die or disappear . . . Into aliases—just now: Lucky this primitive setting, O’- the Fox—and takes his Dare begins his perilous orders from “The Right quest for salvation, a Man.” journey of danger and Into O’Dare’s nightmarish world of lone flight, loyalty and betrayal, selflessness and and lethal missions comes a mysterious love.

Anne Rice is the author of twenty-nine books. She lives in Ran- • Advance Reader’s Edition cho Mirage, California. • National Print Features • National Radio Interviews Also available from Random House Audio • National Print Advertising in The New York Times and People Also available in a Random House Large Print Edition • Online Advertising, including $25.95 (NCR) • 978-0-7393-7735-2 USAToday.com and romance sites • Radio Giveaway Promotion • 12-copy Floor Display (9780307471246; $311.40) • Jacket Blowups Available

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The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer Edited by Robert Kimball, Barry Day,and Miles Kreuger

he seventh volume in Knopf’s critically ac- During a career of more than four decades, Tclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published Mercer was nominated for the Academy in Johnny Mercer’scentennial year,contains the Award for Best Song an astonishing 18 times, texts to nearly 1,500 of his lyrics, several hun- and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchi- dred of them published here for the first time. son, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples Warren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the of the Big Band era and were regularly featured Evening” (music by Carmichael), and “Moon in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” (music collaborators, who included Richard A. Whit- for both by Henry Mancini). ing, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome You’ve probably fallen in love with more Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to than a few of Mercer’s songs—his words have some of the most famous standards, among never gone out of fashion—and with this su- them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers perb collection, it’s easy to see that his lyrics el- Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” evated popular song into art. and “That Old Black Magic.”

Robert Kimball has edited the Com- Barry Day has written books on Noël Miles Kreuger, the president of the In- plete Lyrics of Cole Porter, Irving Coward, Dorothy Parker, Oscar stitute of the American Musical, is the Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Frank Loesser, Wilde, and P.G. Wodehouse. He lives author of Show Boat: The Story of a and Ira Gershwin. He lives in New in New York, London, and Palm Classic American Musical. He lives in York. Beach. Los Angeles. Also available: • Year-long 100th birthday tributes The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II in major cities throughout the U.S., $65.00 (Can. $75.00) • 978-0-375-41358-2 including Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Savannah • Theatrical release of a biographical film in November; Executive Producer,Clint With 60 illustrations in text 1 1 Eastwood Music • 10 ⁄2 x 11 ⁄2 • 544 pages $65.00 (Can. $79.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26519-7

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Harold S. Kushner Conquering Fear Living Boldly in an Uncertain World

he author of When Bad Things Happen to TGood People now gives us an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it. It is an inescapable component of our lives: fear of unemployment; fear of aging, illness, losing beauty; fear of a terrorist attack or natural disaster. In uncertain times, coping with these fears can be especially challenging, but in this indispensable, hopeful book, Rabbi Harold S. Kushner teaches us to confront, master, and even embrace fear for a more fulfilling life. Combining his own thoughts with the teachings of religious and secular literature and with the true stories of people who have faced down their fears, Rabbi Kushner helps us see that fear can present us with extraordinary opportunities—to connect with our emotions, rethink our values, and change our lives, and the world, for the better. For those who fear helpless- ness, he suggests empowerment: through prayer, service, and knowledge. For those who fear for mankind’s future, he insists on hope and pragmatic measures such as working to protect the environ- ment. For those who fear death, he proposes life— National Print Features • lived courageously and purposefully. National Radio Interviews • In Conquering Fear, we are again inspired by Rabbi • 10–12-city Author Tour, including Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, Kushner’s wisdom: at once deeply spiritual and emi- Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, nently practical. and Washington, D.C. • National Print Advertising in The New Harold S. Kushner is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, York Times Massachusetts, where he lives. His classic work, When Bad • Major Online Advertising Things Happen to Good People, was an international best seller. He was honored by the Christophers, a Roman Catholic organization, as one of the fifty people who have made the world a bet- Available in Anchor paperback: ter place in the last half century, and as clergyman of the year by Living a Life That Matters the national organization Religion in American Life. $12.95 (Can. $14.95) • 978-0-385-72094-6 The Lord Is My Shepherd Also available from Random House Audio $12.95 (Can. $16.00) • 978-1-4000-3335-5 Overcoming Life’s Disappointments $11.95 (Can. $15.95) • 978-1-4000-3336-2 When Bad Things Happen to Good People 5 3 $10.95 (Can. $12.50) • 978-1-4000-3472-7 Psychology • 5 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄8 • 192 pages $22.95 (Can. $27.95) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26664-4

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Jason Epstein Eating A Memoir

ason Epstein, the legendary editor and publisher Jof Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, and E. L. Doctorow, among many other distinguished writers, and the editor of such great chefs and bakers as Alice Waters, Wolfgang Puck, and Maida Heatter, takes us on a culinary tour through his eventful life, from his childhood summers in Maine, where his decision to improve upon his grandmother’s chicken pot pie led to a lifetime at the stove, to the great restaurants of postwar Paris and the narrow streets of New York’s Chinatown today; from a New Year’s dinner aboard the old Île de France with Buster Keaton to an evening at New York’s glamorous “21” restaurant with the dreaded Roy Cohn; from Chinese omelets with the great Jane Jacobs at the edge of the Arctic Ocean to a lobster dinner with the Mailers on Cape Cod, and a warn- ing to examine the chair before you sit down to dinner with W. H. Auden. The author agrees with the Greek philosopher Her- aclitus that you can never step in the same river twice, that every act is unique and so is every dish. In this • National Media Appearances, including book, the more than forty recipes are told as stories NPR and print features that one would tell a friend in stove-side conversation, • Author Tour: Boston, New England, and New York rather than as the usual formulae. • National Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books Jason Epstein is the recipient of many awards, including the Na- tional Book Award for Distinguished Service to American Letters. For many years he was editorial director of Random House. He is the author of Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Fu- ture.

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Orhan Pamuk The Museum of Innocence A novel

rom the universally acclaimed author of Snow Fand My Name Is Red, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize. It is 1975 in Istanbul. Kemal, thirty, from an upper- class family, is engaged to a girl of like background when by chance he encounters a long-lost relation: Füsun is a shopgirl, an eighteen-year-old beauty who stirs all the passion denied him in a society where sex outside marriage is taboo. Their incandescent liaison will flicker and die when Füsun learns of Kemal’s en- gagement. But Kemal cannot forget her: he breaks up with his fiancée to pursue Füsun, only to lose her to another man. For nine years Kemal finds excuses to visit Füsun’s impoverished, conservative marital household, play- ing the kindly cousin, hoping to lure her back. But Füsun’s heart is hardened. From his visits Kemal will take away nothing but odd personal effects, possessions he will collect and cherish, in the private religion his adoration becomes. His hoard will make him famous—and a laughingstock—in Istan- bul society. And when a final chance at happiness is • National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features ripped away, all that remains to him is his museum, this map of a society’s rituals and mores, and of one • 8-city Author Tour: Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San man’s broken heart. Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. A stirring exploration of the nature of romantic at- • National Print Advertising in The New tachment and the strange allure of collecting, this is York Times Book Review and The New Orhan Pamuk’s greatest achievement. Yorker Online Advertising, including Facebook • Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His • Author Web page novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary • Endcap/Author Poster (9780307471291; Award. His work has been translated into more than fifty lan- n/c) guages. He lives in Istanbul. • Downloadable Shelf-talker (Available at www.aaknopf.com) Also available from Random House Audio • Jacket Blowups Available

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Marie Ponsot Easy Poems

eave it to the graceful Marie Ponsot, now in her Llate eighties, to view her life in poetry as easeful. As she tells us, pondering what stones can hear, “Between silence and sound / we are balancing darkness, / making light of it.” Ponsot so beautifully makes light of all she touches; after more than a half century at her craft, she is accepting of what has come, whether it’s a joyous memory of her second-grade teacher in New York public school or the feeling of being “Orphaned Old,” less lucky in life since her parents died. She holds herself to the highest standard: to see clearly, to think, to deal openhandedly with the world, to “Go to a wedding / as to a funeral: / bury the loss” and also to “Go to a funeral / as to a wedding: / marry the loss.” This beloved poet, who confides that she meets works of great art “expectant and thirsty,” inspires the same spirit in her readers.

Glad tired gaudy we are more than we thought & as ready as we’ll ever be...... Marie Ponsot’s most recent books include The On dancing day Bird Catcher, winner of the National Book Crit- we’ll belt out tunes we’ll step to ics Circle Award for poetry,in 1998, and Spring- together ing: New and Selected Poems. Professor emerita till it’s time for us to say of English at Queens College, CUNY, she now there’s nothing more to say teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the nothing to pay no way 92nd Street Y and at the New School University. pay no mind pay no heed Her awards include the Phi Beta Kappa Medal, pay as we go. the Shaughnessy Prize of the Modern Language Association, and the Poetry Society of America’s from “Dancing Day II” Frost Medal for lifetime achievement. She lives in New York City.

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John Keegan The American Civil War A Military History

or the past half century, John Keegan, the great- Fest military historian of our time, has been re- turning to the scenes of America’s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persis- tence of such ill-trained, ill-equipped, and often starving combatants; the effective absence of deci- sive battles among some 260 fought. Now Keegan examines these and other puzzles with a peerless understanding of warfare, uncovering dimensions of the conflict that have eluded earlier historiography. While offering original and perceptive insights into psychology, ideology, demographics, and eco- nomics, Keegan reveals the war’s hidden shape—a consequence of leadership, the evolution of strate- gic logic, and, above all, geography. The American topography, Keegan argues, presented a battle space of complexity and challenges unmatched before or since. Out of a succession of mythic but chaotic engagements, he weaves an irresistible narrative illuminated with comparisons to the • National Media Appearances, including Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and other NPR and print features conflicts. • National Print Advertising, including The New York Times Book Review, The The American Civil War is sure to be hailed a de- Atlantic Monthly, and military finitive account of its eternally fascinating subject. periodicals • Online Advertising on Historynet.com John Keegan’s books include The Iraq War, Intelligence in War, and History.com The First World War,The Battle for History, Fields of Battle, and • Endcap/Author Poster (9780307471239; A History of Warfare. He lives in Wiltshire, England. n/c) • Downloadable Shelf-talker (Available at Also available from Random House Audio www.aaknopf.com/marketing) • Jacket Blowups Available Also available in a Random House Large Print Edition $30.00 (Can. $37.00) • 978-0-7393-2744-9

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James Rosenquist with David Dalton Painting Below Zero Notes on a Life in Art

lively, candid memoir from one of our greatest Aliving artists—part of the 1960s Pop Art movement along with Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—whose vast canvases filled with dramatic, surreally juxtaposed images revolu- tionized twentieth-century painting. James Rosenquist writes about his childhood in North Dakota and Minnesota in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and about arriving in New York City in 1955, penniless but with a scholarship to the Art Stu- dents League. He describes meeting fellow painters Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline, nights at the celebrated Cedar Tavern, and days suspended on scaffolding high over Broadway painting movie or theater billboards, a craft that would directly influ- ence his art. He writes openly about the art world, his dealers, and his clients. And he explains how he came to make such major works as Zone, F-111, and Star Thief, among others. Wonderfully anecdotal, captivating, and unexpected—a unique look inside the contemporary art • National Media Appearances, including world in the company of one of its icons. NPR and print features • Author Appearances in Miami and New York James Rosenquist has had more than fifteen retrospectives, with two at the Whitney Museum of American Art and four at the National Print Advertising in The New • Guggenheim Museum. He also has had one in Moscow, two in York Review of Books Spain, and one at the Smithsonian in Washington, in addition to many gallery and museum exhibitions, both in the United States and abroad. He divides his time between Florida and New York, where he lives with his wife and daughter.

David Dalton is the author of some fifteen books, including James Dean and a novel, Been Here and Gone. He lives in up- state New York with his wife and son.

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Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes

n this warmly writ- Quail in Parchment; Iten, lushly illus- from coastal waters, a trated new cookbook, Roast Lobster with Lidia delves into the re- Bread Crumb Top- gional cooking of many ping, and Zuppa di lesser known parts of Pesce. And in every re- Italy—Molise, Liguria, gion she discovers new Umbria, Abruzzo, Cal- ways with pasta. abria, Valle d’Aosta, Le Above all, no matter Marche, Trentino Alto where she is, Lidia Adige, Basilicata, and reaches the local people Sardinia—and explores who make great olive hidden treasures in oils, or harvest tiny the well-known gas- lentils, or produce tronomic domains of artisan cheeses and re- Lombardy and Emilia gional wines. The au- Romagna. thentic and delectable From the north, she recipes she brings home brings us a wealth of rice recipes, including to us are born out of these intimate connections Risotto Milan-Style with Marrow and Saf- and, as always, out of her passion for the de- fron; from sheep country, a Braised Leg of lightfully varied foods of her native Italy. In ad- Lamb plus Lamb Chops with Olives; from dition, her daughter, Tanya, takes us on side farmlands, Rabbit with Onions and Stuffed trips to share her love of the country and its art. Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is the author of five previous Tanya Bastianich Manuali received her Ph.D. in Renais- books, four of which have been accompanied by nation- sance art history from Oxford University.Since 1996 she ally syndicated public television series. She is the owner of has led food/wine/art tours to Italy. She lives in New the hugely successful New York City restaurant Felidia, York City. among others, and she lectures on Italian cuisine throughout the country. She lives on Long Island, New York. The companion volume to the new public television series beginning to air Spring 2009

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November Sam Stephenson The Jazz Loft Project The Photographs of W. Eugene Smith Taken from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965

legendary underground jazz and photography A happening becomes a book. From 1957 to 1965, W.Eugene Smith—one of the masters of twentieth-century photography—lived in a loft building in New York City’swholesale flower dis- trict that was the site of famous after-hours jazz jam sessions. During his eight years there he took forty thousand pictures (the largest body of work in his career), photographing the nocturnal jazz scene as well as life on Sixth Avenue outside his window.Now,two hundred of these extraordinary, never-before-seen photographs have been gathered together. Here are Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Thelo- nious Monk, Bill Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Roland Kirk, Zoot Sims, and Chick Corea, to name a few. And the pimps, prostitutes, cops, dealers, and drug addicts who dropped by,along with the likes of Doris Duke, Norman Mailer, Diane Arbus, and Salvador Dalí. Sam Stephenson, the foremost authority on Smith, has edited the photographs and written the text, which includes excerpts from the four thousand hours of audio recordings Smith made at the time, as well as firsthand accounts of those who were there and lived to tell the tale(s). An extraordinary portrait of the underground world of jazz in 1960s New York and the extraordinary photographer who captured it all.

Sam Stephenson is a writer and lecturer at the Center for Docu- mentary Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project and W. Eugene Smith 55. He lives in Chatham County, North Carolina.

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Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W.Kunhardt, and Peter W.Kunhardt, Jr. Lincoln,Life-Size

n essential col- evident in the changes Alection of photo- in expression and affect graphic portraits of these portraits capture. Abraham Lincoln, in Each portrait is pre- a striking format, sented both in a stan- from the foremost dard illustrative size family of Lincoln and in life-size, and is scholarship. accompanied by a con- Taken across a span temporaneous quote of nearly twenty years, by or about Lincoln, from 1846 to 1865, enriching the story of these images provide us his life as related in his with a visual account continuously evolving of Lincoln’s inter- image. twined political and Published for the personal lives as we holiday season at the watch him age and ob- end of the highly antici- serve the toll taken by pated Lincoln bicenten- the Civil War in the nial, Lincoln, Life-Size final four years of his grants us an unprece- life. Here are a wide range of Lincolns—wise, dented appreciation of this extraordinary man. It melancholic, ruggedly handsome, downright will be a must for all Lincoln enthusiasts—and homely, serene—his complex character clearly for anyone fascinated by our greatest president.

Philip B. Kunhardt III is a writer and producer and is currently • National Print Features a Bard Center Fellow at Bard College. Peter W. Kunhardt is • Author Tour: Chicago, New York, and executive producer of KunhardtMcGee Productions. Peter W. Washington, D.C. Kunhardt, Jr., is assistant director of photography at the • National Print Advertising, including The Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation. They are coauthors of Looking New York Times Book Review for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon and, along with • Online Advertising, including their father, the late Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip and Peter are History.com and CivilWar.com coauthors of Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography. • Jacket Blowups Available

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John Milton Cooper, Jr. Woodrow Wilson A Biography

he first major biography of Woodrow Wilson in Tnearly twenty years, from America’sleading Wil- son scholar. Woodrow Wilson was one of the most important presidents in American history: a Democrat who re- took the White House after sixteen years of Republi- can administrations, he helped create many of the regulatory bodies that would prove central to gover- nance in the twentieth century. He guided the nation through World War I, making the United States a world power for the first time. And though he lost the fight to bring the country into the League of Nations, he defined a new way of thinking about international relations that would bear fruit with the creation of the United Nations. John Milton Cooper guides us through Wilson’s personal and political worlds, bringing the man and his times to life. We see how Wilson cut his political teeth as president of Princeton and how he came virtually out of nowhere in 1912 to lead the Democrats to victory, applying his careful study of politics to his new office. We see him develop his vision for govern- • National Media Appearances, including ment and articulate it in tours around the country, C-SPAN and NPR speaking directly to the American people, which he • 4-city Author Tour: Chicago, Madison, New York, and Washington, D.C. believed was the best way to engender their most sus- • National Print Advertising in The New tained, and sustaining, support. York Review of Books and The Atlantic A long overdue, revelatory portrait of one of our Monthly most transformative presidents.

John Milton Cooper, Jr. is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he lives. He is the author of Breaking the Heart of the World: Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations and The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, among other books. He was recently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

With 16 pages of photographs 1 1 Biography • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 704 pages $35.00 (Can. $42.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26541-8

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Richard Russo That Old Cape Magic A novel

ollowing Bridge of marriage of their daughter FSighs—a national best Laura’s best friend. Sure, seller hailed by The Boston Jack’s been driving Globe as “an astounding around with his father’s achievement . . . a master- ashes in the trunk, though piece”—Richard Russo his mother’s very much now tells the story of a alive and often on his cell marriage, and all the other phone. Laura’s boyfriend ties that bind, from parents seems promising, but be and in-laws to children careful what you pray for, and the promises of youth. especially if it happens to Thirty years ago, on come true. A year later, at their Cape Cod honey- her wedding, Jack has an- moon, Jack and Joy Grif- other urn in the car, and fin made a plan for their both he and Joy have future that has largely brought new dates. Full of been fulfilled. He left Los every family feeling imag- Angeles behind for the inable, wonderfully comic sort of New England col- and profoundly involving, lege his parents had as- That Old Cape Magic is pired to, and now the two surprising, uplifting and of them are back on the Cape—where he’d also unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has spent his childhood vacations—to celebrate the ever written.

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Richard Ellis On Thin Ice The Changing World of the Polar Bear

he polar bear—the magnificent and mythic in- Thabitant of the Arctic—has captivated our imagination for centuries. Now, with this amazing creature symbolizing the perils of global warming, acclaimed science writer Richard Ellis gives us an im- passioned examination of its extraordinary life—and illuminates a path for saving it from extinction. Ellis describes the largest of land predators in clarify- ing detail and elucidates its hunting, mating, reproduc- tion, and hibernation habits. He explains its venerated place in Inuit culture and charts its normal lifespan. But he also reiterates the ways in which that lifespan is being shortened and perhaps altogether eliminated: with the ever-increasing loss of sea ice, the bear’s ability to hunt for food is continuously diminished. Over the past twenty years alone, the population of polar bears has shrunk dramatically and today numbers just 22,000. Ellis discusses the U.S. government’s resistance to placing the polar bear on the endangered species list and makes clear that while the ideological and fiscal battles between oil excavation and conservation are waging, the polar bear is tumbling toward an extinc- • National Media Appearances, including tion that is preventable. NPR and print features Authoritative, urgent, vividly written, On Thin Ice • Select Author Appearances is both a celebration and a rallying cry on behalf of • National Print Advertising in The Atlantic Monthly one of the world’s greatest natural treasures. • Online Advertising on adventure, nature, and ecology sites Richard Ellis is the author of more than twenty books, including Tuna: A Love Story; The Book of Whales; Dolphins and Por- poises; The Book of Sharks; Men & Whales; Monsters of the Sea; Available in Vintage paperback: Great White Shark (with John McCosker); Deep Atlantic; Imag- Imagining Atlantis ining Atlantis; and The Search for the Giant Squid. He is also a $14.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-70582-3 celebrated marine artist whose paintings have been exhibited in Tuna: A Love Story (July 2009) museums and galleries around the world. He has written and il- $15.95 (Can. $18.95) • 978-0-307-38710-3 lustrated articles for numerous magazines, including Audubon, National Geographic, Discover, and Scientific American. He lives in New York City.

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William Shawcross The Queen Mother The Official Biography

he official and definitive biography of Queen Eliz- Tabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and, certainly, no one could have imagined that her long life (she died in 2002) would come to reflect a changing nation over the course of an entire century.Now,William Shawcross— given unrestricted access to the Queen Mother’s personal papers, letters, and diaries—gives us a portrait of unprecedented vividness and detail. Here is the girl who helped convalescing soldiers during the First World War . . . the young Duchess of York helping her reluctant husband assume the throne when his brother abdicated . . . the Queen refusing to take refuge from the bombing of London, risking her own life to instill courage and hope in others who were living through • National Media Appearances, including a morning show, NPR, and print features the Blitz . . . the dowager Queen—the last Edwardian, • 5-city Author Tour: Atlanta, Boston, the charming survivor of a long-lost era—representing Miami, New York, and Washington, her nation at home and abroad . . . the matriarch of the D.C. Royal Family and “the nation’s best-loved grand- • National Print Advertising in The New mother.” York Times and British Heritage Magazine A revelatory royal biography that is, as well, a sin- • 9-copy Floor Display (9780307471345; gular history of Britain in the twentieth century. $315.00/NCR) • Jacket Blowups Available Born in 1946, William Shawcross is an internationally renowned writer and broadcaster who appears regularly on television and radio. His articles have appeared in leading newspapers and journals throughout the world. He lives in London.

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Brad Leithauser The Art Student’s War A novel

he place is Detroit, the year is 1943. A pretty Tyoung woman climbs aboard a streetcar in the crowded wartime city. She is heading home, where another war—a domestic war—is about to erupt. Our heroine, Bianca Paradiso (Bea to her friends and family), is eighteen and an ambitious art student. She is determined to observe everything, and there is much to see in a thriving, sleepless city where auto- mobile production has been halted in favor of fighter planes and tanks, and where wounded soldiers have begun to appear with disturbing frequency. The glorious pursuit of art and the harrowing pursuit of military victory eventually merge when Bea is asked to draw portraits of wounded soldiers in a local hospital. Suddenly, bewilderingly, she must deal with lives maimed at their outset, and with headlong romantic yearnings that demand more of her than she feels prepared to give. In this, his sixth novel, Brad Leithauser has realized a double feat of imagination: a loving historical por- • National Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books trait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday, and a keen and affectionate rendering of the artist as a Available in paperback: young woman. Rich, humorous, engrossing, The Art Curves and Angles Student’s War is Leithauser’s finest novel yet. $16.00 (Can. $19.00) • 978-0-375-71142-8 The Friends of Freeland Brad Leithauser is the author of five previous novels, five vol- $14.00 (Can. $19.50) • 978-0-679-77270-5 umes of poetry,two collections of light verse, a novel in verse, and a book of essays. He is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He and his wife, the poet Mary Jo Salter, divide their time between Amherst, Massachusetts, and Baltimore, Maryland.

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Michael Feeney Callan Robert Redford The Biography

he definitive biogra- correspondence, hundreds Tphy of Robert Red- of hours of taped inter- ford. views. Here is his family He has appeared on background and child- stage and screen, in front hood,hisrockystartinact- of and behind the camera, ing, the death of his son, earning Academy,Golden his star-making relation- Globe, and other awards ship with director Sydney and nominations for his Pollack, the establishment acting, directing, and pro- of Sundance, his political ducing. His Sundance involvement, artistic suc- Film Festival transformed cesses and failures, friend- the world of filmmaking. ships and romances. Here He is among the most is a portrait of a man widely admired Holly- whose iconic roles on wood stars of his gen- screen (Butch Cassidy and eration. But only now, the Sundance Kid, All the with this revelatory biog- President’s Men, The Nat- raphy, will we see behind ural) and directorial bril- the Hollywood facade to liance (Ordinary People, the surprising and com- Quiz Show) have both de- plex man. fined and obscured one of the most celebrated, Redford made available to Michael Feeney and until now least understood, public figures of Callan his personal papers: journals, script notes, our time.

Michael Feeney Callan is the author of short stories, for which he • National Media Appearances, including won the Hennessy Literary Award; two novels; and several plays, E!, Extra, Entertainment Tonight, NPR, as well as biographies of Anthony Hopkins, Richard Harris, Julie and print features Christie, and Sean Connery. He has worked for the BBC, ITV, • Radio Satellite Tour Ireland’s Ardmore Studios, and PBS as a writer, producer,and di- • 4-city Author Tour: Los Angeles, New rector of television dramas and documentaries. He lives in York, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco Dublin, Ireland. • National Print Advertising in The New York Times and LA Weekly Also available from Random House Audio • Extensive Online Advertising on film sites and to Facebook fans • Endcap Poster (9780307471352; n/c) • Jacket Blowups Available

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Nicholas Haslam Redeeming Features A Memoir

rom British designer Nicholas Haslam, a dazzling Fand witty account of his frenetic life—from the ’50s to the present—in London, the south of France, New York, Arizona, and Los Angeles, in a crowd of friends and acquaintances that includes virtually all of the cultural icons of our time. Haslam has found himself at the center of the most interesting circles wherever he is—at parties, opening nights, royal weddings. In London in the late ’50s he crossed paths—and more—with Cecil Beaton, Fran- cis Bacon, Diana Cooper,Lucian Freud, David Hock- ney, and Noël Coward. In the ’60s, in New York, he encountered Dorothy Parker, Cole Porter, Andy Warhol, Jack Kennedy, and Marilyn Monroe while working at Vogue and Show magazines, before de- camping to a ranch in Arizona to raise Arabian horses, when he wasn’t commuting to Los Angeles to decorate for the stars. Back in England in the early ’80s, he attended the wedding of his cousin Diana Spencer and designed for everyone from the financier James Goldsmith to rocker Bryan Ferry. Haslam is a gifted and exuberant storyteller with • National Print Features an exacting eye for the telling detail. Redeeming Fea- • National Print Advertising in The New tures York Review of Books is a fascinating look at our culture, a compelling and wholly singular document of our times.

Nicholas Haslam is the author of a book about his interior design, Sheer Opulence, and has been a contributing editor of British Vogue and Tatler for many years. He also writes for The World of Interiors and The Spectator. He lives in London.

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Vladimir Nabokov The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun) A novel in fragments

t last: Vladimir Na- whether to honor his fa- A bokov’s final and ther’s wish or preserve for unfinished novel, in posterity the last piece of print—thirty years after writing of one of the his death, years in which greatest writers of the the fate of The Original twentieth century. His de- of Laura was in constant cision finally to allow and closely watched ques- publication will be pas- tion. sionately welcomed by When Nabokov died in both scholars and general 1977, he left instructions readers. And the ingen- for his heirs to burn the ious format of the book 138 handwritten index (which includes remov- cards that made up able facsimiles of the the rough draft of The index cards) will make an Original of Laura. But even more extraordinary Nabokov’s wife, Vera, occasion of this publish- couldn’t bear to destroy ing event. her husband’s last work, In its fragmented narra- and when she died, the tive—dark yet playful, fate of the manuscript fell preoccupied with mortal- to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy- ity—we are given one last experience of a four—the Russian novelist’s only surviving writer’s unparalleled creativity,a glimpse of his heir,and translator of many of his books—has last days, and a body of work finding its struggled for decades with the decision of apotheosis.

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Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Introduction by Richard Pevear new, vibrant translation of Tolstoy’s most im- Aportant short fiction, by the acclaimed translat- ing team whose War and Peace was a triumphant best seller. These incandescent stories from the mature author—some autobiographical, others moral para- bles, and all imaginative, transcendent, and evoca- tively drawn—include “Hadji Murat,” which Harold Bloom called “the best story in the world”; “The Devil,” a tale of sexual obsession based on Tolstoy’s own relationship with a married peasant woman on his estate in the years before his marriage; the celebrated title story, an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption; and seven others. Pevear and Volokhonsky’s translation captures the richness, immediacy, and multiplicity of Tolstoy’s language and reveals the author as a passionate moral guide, an unflinching seeker of truth, and a creator of enduring and universal art.

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Herbert Muschamp Hearts of the City The Selected Writing of Herbert Muschamp

he best work of the late Herbert Muschamp, Tformer architecture critic of The New York Times, and one of the most outspoken, lively, and in- fluential voices in architectural criticism. Gathered here are pieces from The New Republic, The New York Times, and Artforum, as well as fragments of the book left unfinished. Muschamp drew on film, literature, and popular culture to write pieces that were passionate and personal, changing the landscape of architectural criticism in the process. He made it a subject accessible for everyone when, because of the heated debate between modernists and postmodernists, architecture had become part of a larger public dialogue. He reviewed architecture and design shows; he compared Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao to the body of Marilyn Monroe; he waxed poetic about a new design for Manhattan’s manhole covers. Early on he champi- oned the work of Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, and Santiago Calatrava, and • National Print Features • National Print Advertising in The New was drawn to the theoretical writings of architects York Review of Books such as Peter Eisenman. Included is his brilliant and poignant six-thousand-word piece about gay culture and Edward Durrell Stone’s museum at 2 Columbus Circle. Timely and often prescient, Hearts of the City is a dazzling collection of critical writing about the cityscapes that profoundly affect our lives.

Herbert Muschamp is the author of File Under Architecture and Man About Town: Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City. He died in 2007.

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Alice Munro Too Much Happiness Stories

ine superb new sto- matician—on a winter Nries by one of our journey that takes her most beloved and ad- from the Riviera, where mired writers. she visits her lover, to A young wife and Paris, Germany, and the mother receives release Danish Isles, where she from the unbearable pain has a fateful meeting with of losing her children from a local doctor, and finally a most surprising source. to Sweden, where she In the aftermath of an un- teaches at the only univer- usual, humiliating seduc- sity in Europe willing to tion, a young woman employ a female mathe- reacts in a clever if less- matician. than-admirable way.Other With clarity and ease, stories uncover the “deep Alice Munro once again holes” in a marriage and renders complex, difficult their consequences, the events and emotions into unsuspected cruelty of stories that shed light on children, and how a boy’s the unpredictable ways in disfigured face molds his which men and women fate. And in the long title accommodate and often story,we accompany Sonia Kovalevsky—a late- transcend what happens in their lives. A com- nineteenth-century Russian émigré and mathe- pelling, provocative—even daring—collection.

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A selection of titles available in Vintage Alice Munro has published eleven collections of stories, a Selected paperback: Stories, and a novel. She has been the recipient of many awards, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, including two Giller Prizes, the Lannan Literary Award, and the Marriage National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives with her husband $14.95 (NCR) • 978-0-375-72743-6 in Clinton, Ontario. Love of a Good Woman $14.95 (NCR) • 978-0-375-70363-8 Also available from Random House Audio Runaway $14.95 (NCR) • 978-1-4000-7791-5

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THE JULIA WHO STARTED IT ALL!

Make sure you stock up on the classic work that forever changed the way America cooks. Now available with a movie tie-in bellyband. Julie and Julia —the new film by Nora Ephron starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams—opens August 7, 2009! The movie tells the story of Julia Child’s time in France and the making of Mastering the Art of French Cooking—and of Julie, a young woman determined to cook all 524 recipes from the classic cookbook in a single year. Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, and Simone Beck With more than 100 illustrations by Sidonie Coryn 7 x 10 • 752 pages • 40.00 (Can. $60.00) • 978-0-375-41340-7

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CELEBRATE THE MOON LANDING Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the first moon landing—it’s almost like being there yourself.

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Ken Burns, director and producer of The Na- tional Parks, founded his own documentary company, Florentine Films, in 1976. His films include The War, Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War, which was the highest-rated series in the history of Amer- ican public television. His work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody Awards, and two Academy Award nominations. He received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award in 2008. He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.

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