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• • • I’m Jim Dassise, West Coast College Field Sales Manager You can contact me with any questions or requests at [email protected] • • • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) new books for course use & adoption fall 2012

Penguin Classics On Living and Dying Well The Death of King Arthur: Marcus Tullius Cicero • Newly translated with The Immortal Legend an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Habinek Thomas Malory • Retold by Peter Ackroyd Five Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish • 978-0-14-045556-4 • $16.00 • Dec 2102 • Cover design by Stuart Kolakovic Tragedy; Hamlet; Antonio’s Revenge; The • Philosophical writings on “the good life” by • 978-0-14-310695-1 • $17.00 • Nov 2012 Tragedy of Hoffman; The Revenger’s the great Roman orator in a vital new • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition • “Elegant, Tragedy translation. economical, and mordantly witty.”—The Boston Various (,Thomas Globe • “Ackroyd preserves, and even Middleton, John Marston, Thomas Kyd, and Something to Remember Me By: accelerates, the headlong pace of these tales, Henry Chettle) • Edited with an Introduction Three Tales where action is everything.”—The New York & Notes by Emma Smith • 978-0-14-119227-7 • Introduction by Nicole Krauss Times • $16.00 • Dec 2012 • A new authoritative • 978-0-14-242218-2 • $16.00 • Nov 2012 edition of five classic revenge plays. • Trio of short works by the Nobel laureate and The Portable Malcolm X Reader “greatest writer of American prose of the Edited by Manning Marable and Garrett Felber The Discovery of America by the Turks twentieth century” (James Wood, The New • 978-0-14-310694-4 • $22.00 • Jan 2013 Jorge Amado • Translated by Gregory Rabassa Republic) • “Bellow’s body of work is more • A new look at Malcolm X’s life and times • Foreword by José Saramago capacious of imagination and language than from his Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, • 978-0-14-310698-2 • $14.00 • Sep 2012 anyone else’s.”—Salman Rushdie Manning Marable. • Published for the first time in English for the centennial of Amado’s birth • “Amado’s Heart of Darkness On Being Different: irresistable human palette, like Brazil itself Joseph Conrad • Introduction by Adam What It Means to Be a Homosexual contains every color, race and ethnicity, from Hochschild • Enriched Features by Timothy S. Merle Miller • With a New Foreword by Dan ultra-rich plantation owners to the wretches Hayes • Cover design by Mike Mignola Savage • Afterword by Charles Kaiser who labor in the fields....There’s more packed • 978-0-14-310658-6 • $13.00 • Sep 2012 • 978-0-14-310696-8 • $13.00 • Oct 2012 • The into this slender book than many a novel five • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition groundbreaking work on being homosexual in times its length, delivered with zest and spice America • “Forty years later, the story Miller and unashamed love of physical pleasure.” Collected Poetry: John Donne tells remains important and necessary to read, —Nick DiMartino John Donne • Edited by Christopher Ricks not only for both gay and straight readers to • Introduction and Notes by Ilona Bell understand ‘the way it used to be,’ but because The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray • 978-0-14-119157-7 • $16.00 • Feb 2013 the issues Miller raised are still being discussed Jorge Armado • Newly translated by Gregory • A new collection of Donne’s verse, from the and argued about.”—Nancy Pearl on NPR’s Rabassa • Introduction by Rivka Galchen witty conceit of “The Flea” to the intense Morning Edition • 978-0-14-310636-4 • $14.00 • Sep 2012 spirituality of his Divine Poems. • Widely considered the greatest work by the Tomorrow Is Now foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth Tottel’s Miscellany: Songs and Sonnets Eleanor Roosevelt • With a New Introduction century. of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, by Allida Black • With a New Foreword by Bill Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others Clinton • 978-0-14-310699-9 • $15.00 • Nov Edited with an Introduction and Notes by 2012 • Available again in time for election Amanda Holton and Tom MacFaul season, Eleanor Roosevelt’s most important • 978-0-14-119204-8 • $20.00 • Dec 2012 book—a battle cry for civil rights. • First time as a Pengiun Classic • A seminal collection of poetry from the Tudor period.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) The Purple Cloud The Tale of the Heike An African Quilt M. P. Shiel • With a New Introduction and Translated by Royall Tyler • 978-0-670-02513-8 Edited and with an Introduction by Barbara H. Notes by John Sutherland • 978-0-14-119642-8 • $50.00 • Oct 2012 • A foundation stone of Solomon and W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. • $16.00 • Dec 2012 • A landmark work that Japanese culture and a major masterpiece of • 978-0-451-53203-9 • $7.95 • Dec 2012 heralded the genre of apocalyptic fiction world literature • Includes illustrations, maps, • This new title celebrates the incredibly rich • “A remarkable piece of work... head and character guides, and genealogies and diverse literary tradition of Africa with shoulders above the average tale of fantastic stories spanning the continent from Nigeria to adventure.”— Book Review South Africa by such authors as Chinua • “Delivered with a skill and artistry falling Achebe, Ama Ata Aido, , little short of actual majesty.”—H. P. Lovecraft Signet Classics , Charles Mungoshi, Es’kia Mphahlele, and Grac Ogot. Includes short Portable Steinbeck biographical notes on each contributor. • Edited by Pascal Covici, Jr. The Bible’s Greatest Stories • Introduction by Susan Shillinglaw Translated and with an Introduction by Paul Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • 978-0-14-310697-5 • $22.00 • Oct 2012 Roche • New Afterword by Bruce Chilton Robert Louis Stevenson • 978-0-451-53225-1 • Includes the complete novels Of Mice and • 978-0-451-53192-6 • $7.99 • Aug 2012 • A • $3.95 • Sept 2012 • Introductory essays by Men and The Red Pony, with self-contained comprehensive collection of the greatest Vladimir Nabokov • New Afterword by excerpts from several longer novels (Tortilla biblical stories, conveyed in a modern English National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon Flat, , and East of Eden) translation • More than a hundred years later, Stevenson’s and the text of his Nobel Prize acceptance enduring classic remains the irresistibly Little Men speech. terrifying stuff of our worst nightmares. Louisa May Alcott • 978-0-451-53223-7 • $5.95 The Prophecies • Oct 2012 • Includes an Afterword by J.T. The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories Nostradmus • Newly translated with Notes by Barbarese, poet and distinguished Professor of Leo Tolstoy • Translated by Aylmer Maude and Richard Sieburth • Introduction by Richard English at Rutgers, as well as a New J. D. Duff • With a New Introduction by Regina Sieburth and Stephane Gerson Introduction. Maler • Afterword by Hugh McLean • 978-0-14-310675-3 • $28.00 • Aug 2012 • 978-0-451-53217-6 • $6.95 • Aug 2012 • Also Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer • Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text includes Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Joseph Conrad • 978-0-451-53103-2 • $4.95 • The first major literary presentation of Sonata, and Master and Man. • Oct 2012 • Includes an Introduction by Nostradamus’s Prophecies • “Is Nostradamus a National Book Award-winning author Joyce poet? The form in which he wrote—dark The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories Carol Oates and an Afterword by acclaimed astrological visions of world events—is not one Mark Twain • 978-0-451-53220-6 • Oct 2012 writer Vince Passaro • In this pair of literary of poetry’s frequent modes, though he • With a new Introduction and an Afterword voyages into the self, Conrad has written two of anticipates the resounding malarkey of Yeats. by Howard Mittelmark, author of How Not to the most disturbing and noteworthy pieces of But it takes a poet to create such haunting, Write a Novel • This collection unites Mark twentieth century fiction. resonant, and mysterious quatrains.”—Richard Twain’s most accomplished short works, including The Mysterious Stranger and The Wilbur, former U.S. poet laureate and winner On Shattered Ground: Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book A Civil War Mosaic, 1861-1865 Award • “Everybody knows about Edited by Eileen and Roger Panetta Nostradamus, but few have read him. Richard The Best of Oscar Wilde • 978-0-451-53219-0 • $7.95 • Nov 2012 • New Sieburth’s glittering translation rescues one of Oscar Wilde • 978-0-451-53222-0 • $5.95 • Nov title for Signet Classics—an anthology of the world’s most arcane texts from the realm of 2012 • With an Introduction by Sylvia Barnet, primary documents tracing the evolution of the hearsay, and renders its strange poetry palpable general editor of the Signet Classics Shake- Civil War from its beginnings with the 1860 and moving.”—John Ashbery, Pulitzer Prize– speare, and a new Afterword by Marylu Hill, election of Lincoln to the surrender and winning poet Director of the Center for Liberal Education at assassination with which it ended. It includes Villanova University • Includes Wilde’s five Travels with Charley in Search of America newspaper accounts, broadsheets, poetry, major plays: Salomé, An Ideal Husband, A John Steinbeck • Introduction by Jay Parini songs, photography, maps, and folk tales. Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and The Importance of Being Earnest • 978-0-14-018741-0 • $21.00 • Oct 2012 A Just and Lasting Peace: A Doumentary • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition • Interviews from the peak of his career, bril- History of Reconstruction • Commemorates the 50th anniversary of liant examples of his literary criticism, and an Edited by John David Smith Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize • an intimate look at appendix that restores valuable lines from the • 978-0-451-53226-8 • $4.95 • Dec 2012 • New one of America’s most writers in the original text of his most famous play. title for Signet Classics. It is a comprehensive later years of his life—a self-portrait of a man and accessible antholgy of primary documents who never wrote an explicit autobiography tracing the evolution of Reconstruction. It • “Pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places contains a detailed Introduction by the editor and people interspersed with bittersweet essays making it a perfect resource for those studying on everything from the emotional difficulties of The Civil War and its aftermath. growing old to the reason why giant sequoias arouse such awe.”—The New York Times Book Review

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 3 Those Across the River The Age of Desire Poetry Christopher Buehlman • 978-0-425-25651-0 Jennie Fields • 978-0-670-02368-4 • $27.95 • $15.00 • Sep 2012 • Ace • Bequeathed a house • Aug 2012 • Viking • A glimpse into the life of from an estranged aunt, a man moves in—even and the scandalous love affair Madame X though the same aunt wrote a letter warning that threatened her closest friendship • “In the William Logan • 978-0-14-312238-8 • $18.00 him against it. • “What a treat. Terrible and vein of Loving Frank or The Paris Wife, Jennie • Oct 2012 • Penguin • A new collection by one beautiful. As much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Fields has created a page-turning period piece. of our foremost masters of free verse as well as Koontz. A graceful, horrific read.”—Patricia Fields portrays a woman whose life was hardly formal poetry. Briggs, New York Times bestselling author of innocence and mirth, but passionate, complex the Mercy Thompson Series and more mysterious than one might ever A Thousand Mornings imagine.”—Mary Morris, author of Nothing to Mary Oliver • 978-1-59420-477-7 • $24.95 The Grief of Others Declare and Revenge • Oct 2012 • Mornings with the Pulitzer Leah Hager Cohen • Riverhead Prize-winning poet • “Oliver’s poems are • 978-1-594448-612-8 • $16.00 • Sep 2012 • A From the Memoirs thoroughly convincing—as genuine, moving, novel of a family’s guilt, grief, and deception of a Non-Enemy Combatant and implausible as the first caressing breeze of • “Cohen is one of our foremost chroniclers of Alex Gilvarry • 978-0-14-312306-4 • $16.00 spring.”—The New York Times Book Review the mundane complexities, nuanced tragedies • Jan 2013 • Penguin • The story of designer and unexpected tendernesses of human Boy Hernandez: Filipino immigrant, New York Rime of the Modern Mariner connection.”—The New York Times Book glamour junkie, Guantánamo detainee. Nick Hayes • 978-0-670-02580-0 • $32.00 • Oct Review • “With gorgeous prose, Cohen • “Delicious... A left-handed love-letter to 2012 • Viking • Written in 1797, “The Rime of skillfully takes us from past to present and back America.”—The New York Times Book Review the Ancient Mariner” was the original again as she explores the ramifications of family • “ It’s rare for a novel to tread so fearlessly into eco-fable; drawn in 2010, The Rime of the loss, grief and longing.”—Kirkus the political and yet to emerge so deeply funny Modern Mariner is a graphic novel, now set in and humane.”—Gary Shteyngart the North Atlantic Garbage Patch—thus adding Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles a timely and resonant message about the Ron Currie, Jr. • 978-0-670-02534-3 • $26.95 May We Be Forgiven destruction of our seas. Hayes’s visually striking • Feb 2013 • Viking • From winner of the 2009 A.M. Homes • 978-0-670-02548-0 • $27.95 debut is drawn with complex, iconic images Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American • Sep 2012 • Viking • An unnerving, funny tale reminiscent of old woodcuts. Emerging from Academy of Arts and Letters as well as the New of unexpected intimacies and of how one every page are the poem’s enduring themes: York Public Library Young Lion’s Award for his deeply fractured family might begin to put compassion for nature, a sense of connection acclaimed debut, God Is Dead.• In this tour de itself back together from the author of The among all living things, and rightful outrage at force of imagination, Ron Currie asks why Mistress’ Daughter and The Safety of Objects. man’s thoughtless destruction of the literal veracity means more to us than deeper • “This novel starts at maximum force—and environment. truths, creating yet again a genre-bending novel then it really gets going. I can’t remember when that will at once dazzle, move, and provoke. I last read a novel of such narrative intensity; an unflinching account of a catastrophic, The Book of Jonas violent, black-comic, transformative year in the U.S. Fiction Steven Dau • 978-0-452-29897-2 • $16.00 history of one broken American family. • Mar 2013 • Plume • A landmark work about Flat-out amazing.” —Salman Rushdie the true cost of war. • “Rich with symbolism, Rav Hisda’s Daughter, Book I: Apprentice: marvelously descriptive in language... Dau’s A Working Theory of Love A Novel of Love, the Talmud, and Sorcery novel offers deeply resonating truths about war Scott Hutchins • 978-159420-505-7 • $25.95 Maggie Anton • 978-0-452-29809-5 • $16.00 and culture, about family and loss that only art • Oct 2012 • Penguin Press • An inventive • Aug 2012 • Plume • The acclaimed author of can reveal. A literary tour de force.”—Kirkus literary debut about a disaffected man who epic historical fiction follows her Rashi’s Reviews (starred review) • “The toll that war learns—with the help of a sentient computer Daughters trilogy with a mesmerizing novel of exacts has seldom been demonstrated more that speaks in his deceased father’s voice—to love and faith in third-century Babylonia. vividly in fiction.”—Booklist (starred review) make peace not just with his past but with his future • “A brainy, bright, laughter-through- San Miguel The Bartender’s Tale tears, can’t-stop-reading-until-it’s-over kind of T.C. Boyle • 978-0-670-02624-1 • $27.95 • Sep Ivan Doig • 978-1-59448-735-4 • $27.95 • Aug novel. Fatherless daughters, mother-smothered 2012 • Viking • On a tiny, desolate, windswept 2012 • Riverhead • From a great American sons, appealing ex-wives, mouthy high school island off the coast of Southern , two storyteller and author of Work Song, comes a drop-outs—damn, this book’s got something families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, one-of-a-kind father and his precocious son, for everyone!”—Gary Shteyngart, author of The come to start new lives and pursue dreams of rocked by a time of change. • “After living half Russian Debutante’s Ball and Absurdistan self-reliance and freedom from the acclaimed his life in Phoenix, Ariz., with his aunt, author of most recently Talk Talk (2006), The 12-year-old Russell “Rusty” Harry comes back Women (2009), Wild Child (2010) and When to the tiny town of Gros Ventre to live with his the Killing’s Done (2011). “In this absorbing father, Tom, the owner of a popular saloon…. work, Boyle does an excellent job of describing Filtering the world through Rusty’s eyes, Doig the desperation and desolation of life on the gives us a poignant saga of a boy becoming a island. Readers can almost feel the cold and man alongside a town and a bygone way of life damp seeping into their bones.—Library inching into the modern era.”—Publishers Journal Weekly (starred review) • “The new ”—The Daily Beast

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 4 Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes Cascade Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures • 978-0-14-312204-3 • $16.00 Maryanne O’Hara • 978-0-670-02602-9 Emma Straub • 978-1-59448-845-0 • $26.95 • Nov 2012 • Penguin • A “well-nigh perfect” • $25.95 • Aug 2012 • Viking • “A woman torn • Sep 2012 • Riverhead • The story of a (The Boston Globe) novel of love and between competing loyalties: her marriage and Midwestern girl who escapes a family tragedy revolution—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning her freedom, her sense of responsibility and her and is remade as a movie star during author of • “A polyrhythmic desire to live an artist’s fiercely disciplined and Hollywood’s golden age • “Straub’s beautifully contemplation of time and its effects on passionate life. Past and place come alive in observed first novel explores the fraught passion.”—John Sayles, The New York Times this book; these characters are richly drawn trajectory of what has become a staple of the Book Review • “Written with such brio and and complexly human.”—Kim Edwards, author American dream: the hunger for stardom and encompassing humanity that it may well of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter • “Maryanne fame. This book affords an intimate, epic view deserve to be called [Kennedy’s] best.” O’Hara’s debut novel of a married woman of how that dream ricochets through one —The Wall Street Journal suffocated by small-town America brings to American life.”—, author of A mind ’s Main Street. O’Hara’s Visit from the Goon Squad White Dog Fell From the Sky story is engrossing and her prose luminous as Eleanor Morse • 978-0-670-02640-1 • $26.95 she tells of a talented artist torn between One Last Thing Before I Go • Jan 2013 • Viking • Set in Botswana, this is a ambition and conformity.”—Sandra Dallas, Jonathan Tropper • 978-0-525-95236-7 novel of love, friendship, and betrayal for author of True Sisters • $26.95 • Sep 2012 • Dutton • Following his admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge breakthrough success with the New York Times Danticat. • “A book of genuine intellect and The Odds: A Love Story bestseller This Is Where I Leave You, Tropper’s inspiration, superbly written, fascinating.” Stewart O’Nan • 978-0-14-312227-2 • $14.00 latest novel is a look at one family’s attempts to —Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab’s Wife • Oct 2012 • Penguin • A bittersweet novel of conquer life’s surprises enduring love—from the bestselling author of Rage is Back Last Night at the Lobster and Emily Alone • “A Dead Stars Adam Mansbach • 978-0-670-02612-8 • $25.95 few hours with this witty, sad, surprisingly Bruce Wagner • 978-0-399-15935-0 • $35.00 • Jan 2013 • Viking • A fearless novel about the romantic novel might be a better investment • Aug 2012 • Blue Rider Press • From the price of revenge from the #1 New York Times for troubled couples than a month of marriage author of I’m Losing you, critic favorite and bestselling author of Go the F*** to Sleep. Rage counseling.”— • “A American master—Wagner has been hailed by Is Back delivers a mind-bending journey gorgeous fable, a stunning meditation, and a as “a wizard” and by Michiko through a subterranean world of epic heroes hope-filled Valentine about what is won in Kakutani as “dazzling.” • “[Dead Stars is] not and villains. Moving through the city’s unseen love... and how truly, it is always, always worth just the best novel about Americans and fame communities, from the tunnel camps of the the cost.”—The Boston Globe of the past dozen years but the best since Mole People to the drug dens of Crown Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust….We Heights, Rage Is Back is many things: a A Tale for the Time Being regard Dickens not just as a social novelist but dramatic, hilarious thrill ride; a love letter to Ruth Ozeki • 978-0-670-02663-0 • $27.95 as a visionary who turned to burlesque and NYC that introduces the most powerful urban • Mar 2013 • Viking • From the author of My exaggeration to give his work a broader, more underdog narrator this side of The Brief Year of Meats and All Over Creation • Deeply enduring moral relevance. Dead Stars has Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and a literary tour engaged with the relationship between writer something of this moralizing intensity. We all de force from a writer on the brink of real and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, know the problems that Mr. Wagner is stardom. quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for criticizing....Sociologists give us statistics, and the Time Being is a story of our shared pundits write jeremiads. It takes an artist to A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea humanity and the search for home. make us feel the full horror and humanity of Dina Nayeri • 978-1-59448-704-0 the situation.”—Wall Street Journal • $26.95 • Jan 2013 • Riverhead • A magical Storyteller novel about a young Iranian woman lifted from Leslie Marmon Silko • 978-0-14-312128-2 grief by her powerful imagination and love of • $20.00 • Oct 2012 • Penguin • Now back in Western culture. • “A Teaspoon of Earth and print—a classic work of Native American World Fiction Sea is pure magic: lyrical, captivating, funny, literature by the bestselling author of Ceremony • This edition includes a new introduction by and heartbreaking. Entering the world of the The Wandering Falcon intriguing Saba Hafezi and her friends in a Silko and previously unpublished photographs Jamil Ahmad • 978-1-59448-616-6 • $15.00 seaside village in northern Iran, I lost my heart. • “A rich, many-faceted book... [Silko] has a • Oct 2012 • Riverhead • A startling debut Powerful storytelling kept me riveted from the sharp sense of the way in which the profound novel that explores the forbidding tribal world first page, but this is also a keenly intelligent and the mundane often run together.”—N. of Pakistan • “Superb. The work of a gifted investigation into the nature of narrative, the Scott Momaday, The New York Times Book storyteller who has lived in the world of his kaleidoscope of stories, dreams, and memories Review fiction, and who offers his readers rare insight, that define us, and how we create our own pasts wisdom and—above all—pleasure.”—Mohsin and futures.”—Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Hamid, author of Moth Smoke and The Translation Reluctant Fundamentalist • “Ahmad’s deep understanding of his characters shows what a powerful truth teller fiction can be.”—The New York Times

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 5 On Canaan’s Side Crossbones Your House Is On Fire, Sebastian Barry • 978-0-14-312218-0 • $15.00 Nuruddin Farah • 978-0-14-312253-1 • $16.00 Your Children All Gone • Sep 2012 • Penguin • Long-listed for the Man • Oct 2012 • Penguin • Completing the trilogy Stefan Kiesbye • 978-0-14-312146-6 • $15.00 Booker Prize, a new novel from the award- that began with Knots and Links, Crossbones • Oct 2012 • Penguin • “A very elegant winning author of The Secret Scripture • “The portrays individuals caught in the maw of nightmare, so appalling and so beautiful.” play of history as it most intimately affects zealotry, piracy, and political conflict —Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time individual human lives... is on exquisitely • “Politically courageous and often gripping... Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry • “A touching display.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer Crossbones provides a sophisticated brilliant amalgam of Faulkner, the Brothers • “On Canaan’s Side is written with vast introduction to present day .”—The Grimm, and Günter Grass as if condensed for sympathy and tenderness.... It is also fully alert New York Times Book Review • “Reads like a intensity.”—Josip Novakovich, author of Fiction to the power and irony of history.”—Colm taut, tense thriller... a thought-provoking read Writing Workshop • “A fresh sparkling Tóibín as well as an absorbing look into a culture and a collection of the finest stories from the Brothers people.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer• Grimm, hand-picked by an author perfectly Lazarus is Dead “Mesmerizing... A searing look at individuals suited to the tast. This volume is a must-have Richard Beard • 978-1-60945-080-9 • $16.00 caught in the chaos of anarchy.”—The Daily for any lover of fairy tales.”—Library Journal • Oct 2012 • Europa • “Beard can stir Beast (starred review) emotion…his essayistic digressions temper the mythic luminosity of his subject, contributing My Brilliant Friend Daughters Who Walk This Path to the poignancy of his imagined Elena Ferrante • Translated by Ann Goldstein Yejide Kilanko • 978-0-14-318643-4 • $16.00 ‘biography.’”—The Times Literary Supplement • 978-1-60945-078-6 • $17.00 • Oct 2012 • • Feb 2013 • Pintail • An authentic, wrenching • “In this alternative theological novel Jesus Europa • A portrait of two women that is also novel chronicling a young girl’s coming of age does more than weep and Lazarus does more the story of a nation and a meditation on the in turbulent, bustling, contemporary Nigeria. than die....The mythic power of the story nature of friendship. • “I’ve just grazed the • “Yejide Kilanko’s courageous characters reveal remains constant, so Lazarus does in fact die, surface of Ferrante’s dense plotting which how young women bear their coming-of-age, and Jesus does resurrect him, but the Romans, shows how this whole community works. and then they learn to tell.”—Kim Echlin, immediately begin to persecute Lazarus, feeling There’s a useful index of characters in the author of Giller Prize–nominated The his resurrection has reinforced the galley. I wish more writers would employ this Disappeared. extraordinary political power of Jesus. device. There are nine families enumerated, Throughout the narrative, Beard schools the each with four or five members and a list of the The Facility reader in literary and artistic treatments of teachers who play such an important role in Simon Lelic • 978-0-14-312068-1 • $15.00 Lazarus to give the story a cultural and this story. There’s not one name that’s • Aug 2012 • Penguin • A riveting dystopian intellectual framework. Beard’s take on Lazarus superfluous.... It seems that I’ve been reviewing thriller about a police state run amok—from is nothing than astonishing—and he more Europa Editions books than any other the critically acclaimed author of A Thousand respects the reader by taking religion and publisher over the past several months. Europa Cuts. • “With his fragile, sympathetic religious questions seriously.”—Kirkus Review Editions is the small press with the big characters, Lelic has the same ability to make (starred) books.”—Dennis Haritou Online Review us look at the society we’re creating as John le C ar ré .” — Independent (UK) • “Timely topics Beggar’s Feast The Woman Who Died A Lot: relayed in the crispest of prose…he dissects Randy Boyagoda • 978-0-670-06658-2 • $16.00 A Thursday Next Novel with chilling precision the consequences of • 2012 • Viking • “A post-colonial Gatsby....A Jasper Fforde • 978-0-670-02502-2 • $26.95 unchecked governmental authority....Lelic rags to riches picaresque about the clash of • Oct 2012 • Viking • The seventh book in makes numerous salient points about the worlds and the revenge of empires, about fate Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series. suspension of civil liberties by an all-powerful and history and harbors and brithright and entity even as he depicts the nightmare of an brothels, and moneylnders and metal- Winter of the World: innocent man and his evolution from outright benders....Boyagoda, a sharp and subtle writers, Book Two of the Century Trilogy terror to dignified resistance.”—Booklist slips easily into many different characters’ Ken Follett • 978-0-525-95292-3 • $36.00 • Sep heads and their internal rhythms, and lyrical 2012 • Dutton • Follett follows up his #1 New How It All Began lines abound....A satirical feat.” York Times bestseller Fall of Giants with an epic Penelope Lively • 978-0-14-312264-7 • $16.00 —The Globe and Mail about the heroism and honor of World War II • Dec 2012 • Penguin • The author of The and the dawn of the atomic age. Photograph explores the powerful role of 70% Acrylic 30% Wool chance in human affairs and illustrates how our Viola Di Grado • Translated by Michael The Confidant paths can be altered irrevocably by someone we Reynolds • 978-1-60945-077-9 • $16.00 • Sep Hélène Grémillon • Translated by Alison will never even meet • “An elegant, witty work 2012 Europa • A love story as unpredictable as Anderson • 978-0-14-312156-5 • $15.00 • Nov of fiction, deceptively simple, emotionally and the human heart • “With language that is 2012 • Penguin • Part historical drama, part intellectually penetrating.”—The New York poetic and searing, Di Grado has given us a suspense novel, The Confidant is a debut novel Times Book Review stunning debut.”—Flair • “Di Grado plays with that will captivate readers of Sarah’s Key, Suite language like a mad but incredibly talented Française, and The Guernsey Literary and A Man of Parts juggler.”—Elle (Italy) Potato Peel Pie Society • “Undeclared love, David Lodge • 978-0-14-312209-8 • $16.00 hidden hatred, and revenge with terrible • Dec 2012 • Penguin • A novel about the consequences.... [A] book which truly touches remarkable life—and many loves—of author H. our hearts.”—Elle (France) • “Hélène G. Wells • “Terrifically enjoyable.”—The Grémillon’s talent bursts forth in this first Washington Post • “As scintillating, engaging, novel.”—Le Nouvel Observateur (Paris) and multi-dimensional as the man whose life and character it faithfully animates.”—The Atlantic

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 6 The Watcher The Street Sweeper Syndrome E Charles MacLean • 978-0-14-312251-7 Elliot Perlman • 978-1-59448-619-7 • $17.00 Franck Thilliez • Translated by Mark Polizzotti • $16.00 • Sep 2012 • Penguin • Originally • Dec 2012 • Riverhead • Two very different • 978-0-670-02578-7 • $26.95 • Sep 2012 published in 1981 to rave reviews and paths—one of an ex-con who befriends a • Viking • The classic procedural meets cutting impressive sales, The Watcher disappeared from Holocaust survivor and one of a college edge science in this international bestseller shelves, leaving horror fans mystifyingly professor who finds a promising new research • “Thilliez leads his story like a beating drum, deprived of a novel considered to be the topic suggested by an American World War II multiplying the reverberations without ever scariest of all time. Penguin is bringing this cult veteran—lead to one greater story which, in losing track of the psychological development classic back. • “A lost horror classic back in dealing with memory, love, guilt, heroism, the of his characters... a reflection on the origins of print at last, so “if you are easily upset...stop extremes of racism and unexpected kindness, violence that is as playful as it is erudite.” right here.”—The New York Times spans the twentieth century to the present, and —Metro (Paris) spans the globe from New York to Chicago to Tiger Hills Auschwitz. • “Wonderfully rich, engaging and Daniel Stein, Interpreter Sarita Mandanna • 978-0-670-06693-3 • $16.00 multilayered.”—The Washington Post Ludmila Ulitskaya • Translated by Arch Tait • Aug 2012 • Pintail • A sweeping romantic • 978-1-4683-0066-6 • $16.95 • Nov 2012 novel set on a coffee plantation in southern Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: • Overlook • The award-winning literary tour India at the turn of the twentieth century that A New English Version de force by “one of the most important living will appeal to readers of Arundhati Roy. Philip Pullman • 978-0-670-02497-1 • $27.95 Russian writers” (Gary Shteyngart, author of • “More than a love story....Tiger Hills explores • Nov 2012 • Viking • “Once in a lifetime a The Russian Debutante’s Handbook) • Ulitskaya the hazardous side of passion and the shackling children’s author emerges who is so tells the story of Daniel Stein, a Polish Jew who grip of memory once love has been thwarted.... extraordinary that the imagination of a narrowly survives the Holocaust by working for An illuminating portrait of place through six generation is altered. Lewis Carroll, E. Nesbit, the Gestapo as an interpreter. After the war, he decades of social change.”—The New York C. S. Lewis, and Tolkien were all of this cast. So, converts to Catholicism, becomes a priest, and Times • “An extraordinarily imaginative novel too, is Philip Pullman.”—The New Statesman finally emigrates to Israel. with prose that catches in the heart like • “In this pitch-perfect retelling of the Grimms’ poetry.”—Leila Meacham, author of Roses fairy tales, Philip Pullman reminds us that the Earthly Powers stories have lost none of their relevance or Anthony Burgess • 978-1-609-45084-7 • $16.95 A Winter’s Night racing energy, even two hundred years after • Nov 2012 • Europa • Burgess explores the Valerio Massimo Manfredi • Translated by they were written down. As storyteller and very essence of power in a narrative that spans Christine Feddersen • 978-1-60945-076-2 sage, he preserves the flavors and aromas of from Hollywood to Dublin, Nairobi, Paris and • $17.00 • Sep 2012 • Europa • Tells the story of fine old wines from times past and delivers beyond • “Sums up the literary, social and two worlds converging during a time of rapid them to us in sparkling new bottles.”—Maria moral history of the century with comic change. A family of farmers from the Italian Tatar, Harvard, author of The Classic Fairy Tales richeness as well as encyclopedic Padan Plain open their barn as a refuge for • “A fresh, sparkling collection of the finest knowingness.”—Malcolm Bradbury • “One of those who need a warm, dry, safe place to sleep stories hand-picked by an author perfectly the most underrated English novels of the past and eat during the 1920s and 1930s. Told in the suited to the task. This volume is a must- century.”—Christopher Hitches, The Atlantic tradition of country folktales, the story is h av e .” — Library Journal (starred review) framed by devastating years of strife—two world wars and the rise and fall of fascism. NW Zadie Smith • 978-1-59420-397-8 • $26.95 short Stories / Essays Mr. Fox • Sep 2012 • Penguin Press • Smith, award- / Literary Criticism / Helen Oyeyemi • 978-1-59448-618-0 • $16.00 winning author of White Teeth, Changing My • Nov 2012 • Riverhead • An inventive story of Mind, and On Beauty depicts the modern love, lies, and inspiration. The celebrated writer urban zone—familiar to city dwellers Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011 Mr. Fox can’t stop himself from killing off the everywhere—in a tragicomic novel. • “In NW, Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Smith offers a robust novel bursting with life: a • 978-0-670-02666-1 • $27.95 • Mar 2013 Daphne. It’s not until Mary, his muse, comes to timely exploration of money, morals, class and • Viking • Correspondence between author life and transforms him from author into authenticity that asks if we are ever truly the Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. subject that his story begins to unfold sole authors of our own fate.”—BookPage • “Many, this reviewer among them, would differently. • “Oyeyemi’s writing is gorgeous • “A marvelously accomplished work, perhaps consider [Coetzee] the greatest living novelist and resonant and fresh.”—New York Times her most polished yet.”—Salon.com in English.”—The New York Times Book Review Book Review • “Cheeky and imaginative.” • “Auster is one of those sages with — Freud’s Sister confounding talent....He belongs among Goce Smilevski • Translated by Christina E. Vonnegut, Roth, DeLillo.”—The Daily Beast Kramer • 978-0-14-312145-9 • $16.00 • Sep 2012 • Penguin • Winner of the European American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Union Prize for Literature • “A young heir to Beginnings to Emancipation Günter Grass and José Saramago, Smilevski Edited by James G. Basker • 978-1-59853-196-1 might be the newest of a rare thing—a living • $40.00 • Nov 2012 • Library of America • On European novelist with a message for the future the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation of his continent.”—The Jewish Daily Forward • Proclamation, this groundbreaking anthology “Superb....Provocative and poignant....A rediscovers and redefines our greatest tradition sensitive portrayal and well-crafted novel that of social protest. offers keen insight into the Freud family dyanics.”—Kirkus Reviews

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 7 This Is How You Lose Her The Miniature Wife There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Junot Díaz • 978-1-59448-736-1 • $26.95 • Sep Manuel Gonzales • 978-1-59448-604-3 • $26.95 Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged 2012 • Riverhead • From The Pulitzer Prize • Jan 2013 • Riverhead • The eighteen stories of Himself winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Manuel Gonzales’s exhilarating first book Ludmilla Petrushevskaya • Selected and Oscar Wao • “One of contemporary fiction’s render the fantastic commonplace and the Translated by Anna Summers most distinctive and irresistible voices.”— ordinary extraordinary, in prose that thrums • 978-0-14-312152-7 • $15.00 • Feb 2013 Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times • “Díaz with energy and shimmers with beauty. • Penguin • Love stories, with a twist: the continues to keep company with his alter ego, “Wrought with forceful clarity, Borgesian eagerly awaited follow-up to the great Russian Yunior, a Dominican turned New Jerseyan, in inventiveness, and enchanting, devious wit—an writer’s New York Times bestselling scary fairy his second short story collection….Díaz’s unforgettable debut from a uniquely gifted tales. standout fiction remains pinpoint, sinuous, writer.” —Wells Tower, author of Everything gutsy, and imaginative....[his] gripping stories Ravaged, Everything Burned • “ A book of Artful unveil lives shadowed by prejudice and poverty extraordinary joy, compassion, horror, and Ali Smith • 978-1-59420-486-9 • $25.95 and bereft of reliable love and trust.”—Booklist grace all rolled into one.”—Dinaw Mengestu, • Jan 2013 • Penguin Press • Author of nine (starred review) • “Díaz brings life to the short author of How to Read the Air works of fiction, including The Accidental, story with a voice that demands attention.... which won the Whitbread Award and was Díaz’s searing, sometimes hilarious, and always Better Living Through Plastic Explosives shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the disarming language holds everything Zsuzsi Gartner • 978-0-670-06692-6 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. • Here she together....Drown inspired an entire generation • $16.00 • Dec 2012 • Viking • No one is safe melds the tale and the essay into a magical of imitators and with this collection, readers from Zsuzsi Gartner’s wickedly perceptive eye hypbrid form. “The truth is that Ali Smith can’t will remember why everyone wants to write as she uncovers our darkest fears and infinite be captured easily. Her ambition is to shatter like Díaz.”—Publishers Weekly (starred) desires, while making us snort with laughter at the way we usually see things. She doesn’t want the wild, hilarious, and grotesque world we live the obvious frame, the arranged picture. Her One for the Books in. • “A superb new story collection. [Gartner] work is not a pose.”—Jeanette Winterson • Joe Queenan • 978-0-670-02582-4 • $24.95 is the anti-Munro....The emotional weight of “She’s a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, • Oct 212 • Viking • One of America’s leading Gartner’s stories comes from the contrast glorious sense.”—Alain de Botton humorists and author of the bestseller Closing between the persistence of uncontrollable Time examines his own obsession with books. biological urges and an artificial universe.” Battleborn —National Post (Canada) Claire Vaye Watkins • 978-1-59448-825-2 The Shape of the Final Dog • $25.95 • Aug 2012 • Riverhead • A debut set and Other Stories At the Fights: against the stark, tawdry, and hauntingly Hampton Fancher • 978-0-399-15823-0 American Writers on Boxing beautiful landscapes of the West • $25.95 • Sep 2012 • Blue Rider Press • Debut Edited by George Kimball and John Schulian • “A fresh, fierce, fabulous collection. Watkins collection from the original screenwriter and • Foreword by Colum McCann • With a new writes like the divine Didion—cool and clean producer of Blade Runner • “Fancher has preface by John Schulian • 978-1-59853-205-0 with not a word wasted.”—Joy Williams, author worlds falling out of his sleeves. His fictions are • $19.95 • An anthology of the best writing of The Quick and the Dead • “The book feels full of irresistible stealthy voices, surreal about boxing from the Library of America. like a portrait of the human heart, famished for U-turns, and vernacular wit—Buñuel meets beauty and love, but finally and almost always Sherwood Anderson.”—Jonathan Lethem Drifting House wrecked by its own hungers.”—, • “Inhabitants of Francher’s world are both Krys Lee • 978-0-14-312293-7 • $15.00 • Jan author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning scheming strivers and wide-eyed dupes, shrewd 2013 • Penguin • Set in Korea and the United as snakes and innocent as doves, who in all States from the postwar era to contemporary their strangeness churn up a wealth of tender times, Lee’s fiction debut illuminates a people feelings from the depths.—Jessica Kerwin, struggling to reconcile the turmoil of their author of The Encyclopedia of the Exquisite collective past with the rewards and challenges of their present. • “Lee conveys the feeling that Distrust That Particular Flavor something urgent and profound is at stake William Gibson • 978-0-425-25299-4 • $16.00 beyond the lives of these striving, damaged, • Sep 2012 • Berkley • Though best known for and unforgettable characters.”—San Francisco his fiction, William Gibson is as much in Chronicle • “Lee is well on her way to a demand for his cutting-edge observations on promising literary career.”—NPR the world we live in now. Originally printed in publications as varied as Wired, the New York Forever Rumpole: The Best Times, and the Observer, these articles and of the Rumpole Stories essays cover thirty years of thoughtful, John Mortimer • Introduction by Ann observant life, and are reported in the wry, Mallalieu • 978-0-14-312214-2 • $18.00 • Nov humane voice that lovers of Gibson have come 2012 • Penguin • The final Rumpole omnibus to crave.. “Gibson pulls off a dazzling trick. • “Rumpole is one of the immortals of mystery Instead of predicting the future, he finds the fiction.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “For things future all around him, mashed up with the past most truly themselves, there should be a special and reveals our own domain to us.”—The New place of honor... for Rumpole.” York Times Book Review” —The Washington Post

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 8 Science Fiction memoir / biography Manuscripts Don’t Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov: A Life in Letters J.A.E. Curtis • 978-1-4683-0070-3 • $18.95 The Office of Mercy Roger Williams and the Creation of the • Sep 2012 • Overlook • The documentary bi- Ariel Djanikian • 978-0-670-02586-2 • $26.95 American Soul: Church, State, and the ography of Bulgakov’s life based on letters and • Dec 2012 • Viking • A thrilling debut of Birth of Liberty other rare sources, including a diary ironically a post-apocalyptic world for fans of The Hunger John M. Barry • 978-0-14-312288-3 • $18.00 preserved by the KGB • “Superb... marvelously Games. • “If you think a future world without • Jan 2013 • Penguin • A revelatory look at the uncensored.”—The New York Times Book suffering would be a good thing, Djanikian will separation of church and state in America— Review • “Bulgakov’s magic never fails the convince you to reconsider....Gripping, well from the New York Times bestselling author of reader... some of the documents included are plotted, and boasting a fascinating setting...this The Great Influenza. • “Barry keeps up a lively indeed astonishing... Bulgakov’s life is as fantas- engrossing tale is thoughtful and surprising.” pace with jaunty prose recounting one man’s tic and tortured as the plot of The Master and —Deborah Harkness, author of Shadow of rocky sojourn among learned, prickly Margarita.” — The Washington Post Book Worl Night • “The Office of Mercy confronts us with characters and worldly powers. Yet this book is a portrait of a smoothly heartless world that’s not so much a biography as a tightly arranged Fiction Ruined My Family viscerally imagined, increasingly harrowing, discourse on the clash among ideas as they Jeanne Darst • 978-1-59448-617-3 • $16.00 and beautifully moving.”—Jim Shepard, author played out during a period when the American • Nov 2012 • Riverhead • A “winning” (The of Like You’d Understand, Anyway ‘soul,’ as he puts it, was being formed.” New York Times) memoir of writing, alcohol- —The Washington Post ism, and family • “The wisecracking, ultrahip Slow Apocalypse but ultimately tragic voice in Fiction Ruined My John Varley • 978-0-441-01757-7 • $25.95 Life After Death Family—part stand-up comedy, part Lie Down • Sep 2012 • Ace • John Varley is the author Damien Echols • 978-0-399-16020-2 • $26.95 in Darkness—is fetching and fast and fun, and of the Gaean Trilogy (Titan, Wizard, and • Sep 2012 • Blue Rider Press • “Wrongfully it’s only after you fully understand the trauma Demon), Steel Beach, The Golden Globe, Red imprisoned by willfully ignorant cops, at the heart of her family, the neglect that bor- Thunder, and Mammoth. He has won both prosecutors and judge, Damien Echols draws dered on child abuse, that the sadness kicks the Nebula and Hugo Awards for his work. on all his wits and his unique view of humanity in.”—The Chicago Tribune ”One of science fiction’s most important to survive eighteen years on death row. My writers.”—The Washington Post admiration for him, and the strength of his Marbles: spirit, increases with every page.”—Peter Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Jackson, Academy Award-winning director, Me: A Graphic Memoir SCIENCE FICTION producer and screenwriter • “Echols is at heart Ellen Forney • 978-1-592-40732-3 • $20.00 a poet and mystic, and he has written not just a • Nov 2012 • Gotham • Darkly funny and FROM THE LIBRARY quickie one-off book to capitalize on a lurid intensely personal, Forney’s memoir provides a OF AMERICA news story, but rather a work of art that visceral glimpse into the effects of a mood occasionally bears a resemblance to the work of disorder on an artist’s work, as she shares her Jean Genet. A voracious reader all his life, own story through bold black-and-white American Science Fiction: Echols vividly tells his story, from his images and evocative prose. • “Not only does Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s impoverished childhood in a series of shacks her conversational intimacy draw readers in, Edited by Gary K. Wolfe and mobile homes to his emergence after half a but her drawings perfectly capture the • 978-1-59853-157-2 • $70.00 • Oct 2012 lifetime behind bars as a psychically scarred exhilarating frenzy of mania and the dark void • A leading sci fi expert collects nine man rediscovering freedom in New York City.” of depression....Forney’s story should resonate mind-bending classics from the golden age —Kirkus Reviews (starred) • “[T]his is an with those grappling with similar issues, while of the sci-fi novel • Includes works from eloquent, even bitterly lyrical, portrayal of how her artistry should appeal to a wide masters like Robert Heinlein, Richard an innocent man can slip through the cracks of readership.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred) Matheson, James Blish, and Alfred Bester. the legal system and struggle to survive. Compelling and deeply moving, in the Man-Up: Cracking the Code tradition of Helen Prejean’s Dead Man Walking of Modern Manhood American Science Fiction: and ’s The Executioner’s Song, Carlos Andrés Gómez • 978-159-24077-8 Four Classic Novels 53-56 this memoir will appeal to a wide audience.” • $26.00 • Sep 2012 • Gotham • Inspired by the 978-1-59853-158-9 • $35.00 • Oct 2012 —Library Jounral (starred review) award-winning poet and actor’s acclaimed one- • Includes The Space Merchants, More Than man play, a powerful coming-of-age memoir Human, The Long Tomorrow, and The Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life that redefines masculinity for the twenty-first- Shrinking Man. Lisa Chaney • 978-0-14-312212-8 • $17.00 century male. • “Carlos Andrés Gómez delivers • Dec 2012 • Penguin • Drawing on a range of a powerful message....An important read that never-before-seen documents—including will create a much needed dialogue.” American Science Fiction: letters from the love of her life and the man —Russell Simmons • “Carlos Andrés Gómez Four Classic Novels 56-58 behind her early business success—Chaney does not claim to have all the answers, but 978-1-59853-159-6 • $35.00 • Oct 2012 disentangles the truth from Chanel’s own that’s what’s great about this book. He addresses • Includes Double Star, The Stars My carefully cultivated myths • “The most the preconceived notions of manhood and Destination, A Case of Conscience, Who?, thoroughly fleshed out of the new books about masculinity that most people go their entire and The Big Time Chanel.”—The Wall Street Journal lives never questioning. Man Up is the result of a thoughtfully examined life; a book that will make us all more enlightened.”—Hill Harper, author of Letters to a Young Brother

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 9 Wine to Water: How One Man Saved Socrates: A Man for Our Times Unstoppable: From Underdog to Himself While Trying to Save the World Paul Johnson • 978-0-14-312221-0 • $15.00 Undefeated: How I Became a Champion Doc Hendley • 978-1-58333-507-9 • Dec 2012 • Penguin • A portrait of the Anthony Robles with Austin Murphy • $16.00 • Dec 2012 • Avery • Captivating story thinker who believed questioning and • Foreword by Jay Leno • 978-1-592-40777-4 about a small-town bartender who learned education were the keys to a virtuous life • $26.00 • Oct 2012 • Gotham • The inspiring about the world’s water crisis, and decided to • “Johnson... brings to his prose a wealth of story of an all-American athlete born without help. Alternatively begging international orga- anecdote and asides unknown to most his right leg. • “Unstoppable is an inspirational nizations for funding and dodging trigger-hap- academics. His Socrates comes alive.” narrative that captures the essence of py Janjaweed, Doc began drilling and repairing —The Washington Times conquering fears, breaking down barriers, and wells, bringing water to those who desperately never letting one’s dreams be shattered. This is needed it. Wine to Water is an inspirational tale Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark truly the American spirit.”—Condoleezza Rice of how one ordinary person can make a differ- Brian Kellow • 978-0-14-312220-3 • $18.00 ence • “A hero who had the courage to meet a • Nov 2012 • Penguin • The first major Wendy and the Lost Boys: The challange and believe that one person can really biography of the most influential, powerful, Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein change this world.”—Julia Louis-Dreyfus and controversial film critic of the twentieth Julie Salamon • 978-0-14-312139-8 • $17.00 century • “[A] smart and incisive biography.... • Aug 2012 • Penguin • In this intimate portrait Holy Ghost Girl [Moviegoers] are in for a colossal eye- of a complicated woman, Salamon reveals Donna M. Johnson • 978-1-59240-735-4 opening.”—The New York Times • “For a Wasserstein’s most expertly crafted character: • $16.00 • Oct 2012 • Gotham • A memoir of biography to do justice to a complex herself • “Perceptive and empathetic, but also faith, betrayal, and coming of age on the personality and a great mind such as Kael’s, gently unsparing—a superbly nuanced evangelical sawdust trail • “Holy Ghost Girl extensive research must be matched by acute portrait.”—Kirkus Reviews • “Reads more like a takes you inside a world where God and sin perception. That requirement is fully, even novel than a biography.”—The New York Times and miracles and deceit and love are so joyously met here…. Kellow fleshes out these jumbled together you can’t tell them apart. major stages as well as formative minor ones in Walking the Amazon: Johnson sorts through her story with great a greatly revelatory portrait that will stand as 860 Days. One Step at a Time insight, compassion, and humor.”—Jeannette the definitive one.”—Booklist (starred review) Ed Stafford • 978-0-452-29826-2 • $16.00 • Nov Walls, bestselling author of The Glass Castle 2012 • Plume • On his grueling 860-day, • “Turns, as good books must, from a Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: 4,000-plus mile journey, Stafford witnessed the promising read to a sure bet.”—The New York A Life of David Foster Wallace devastating effects of deforestation, from Times D.T. Max • 978-0-670-02592-3 • $27.95 • Sep disappearing tribes to loss of habitats • “Stands 2012 • Viking • “This book is vey well- elbow-to-elbow with adventure classics from The Voice Is All: researched, deeply sympathetic, and incredibly Thesiger to Krakauer.”—Mark Adams, New The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac painful to read. We should feel grateful that this York Times bestselling author of Turn Right at Joyce Johnson • 978-0-670-02510-7 • $32.95 story was told by someone as talented and Machu Picchu • “One of the boldest adventures • Sep 2012 • Viking • A portrait of Kerouac as a responsible as D.T. Max.”—Dave Eggers, author ever taken.”—Bear Grylls young artist—from the award-winning author of A Hologram for the King • “A damnably of Minor Characters • “Johnson deftly bridges readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My the cultural and psychological elements of work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of Father’s Twentieth Century [Kerouac’s] formative years to the haunting conventional biography, Max gives us the man, Margaret Talbot • 978-1-594-48706-4 • $28.95 themes and preoccupations of his novels... his work, and his times—the niceties of which... • Nov 2012 • Riverhead • “What a wonderful, There is an intimacy of knowledge which Max articulates with, well, Wallace-like lucidity loving, beautifully researched and touching renders previous...treatises of Kerouac’s life null and wit.”—Blake Bailey, author of Cheever: A story this is! Lyle Talbot lived a charmed life—a and void.”—Howard Norman, author of What Life • “D.T. Max gives us a sympathetic player’s life—from the final days of vaudeville Is Left the Daughter • “An exemplary biography appraisal of Wallace’s lif enad work, tracing to the golden years of American television…. of the Beat icon and his development as a connections between the two....What Max’s His daughter’s tender yet clear-headed writer. With unprecedented access...Johnson book does—and does powerfully—is provide remembrance of him is a gift and a treasure— tells the story of the rise of the reluctant ‘king an emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as and a top-notch documentation of Hollywood of the Beats’ through the unfamiliar lens of his a young man.—Michiko Kakutani, The New history, besides.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of notebooks, manuscripts and correspondence York Times Eat Pray Love with family, friends, lovers, editors and writers. Johnson uses her opportunity as a pioneer in Larceny in My Blood: A Graphic Novel Charles Dickens: A Life this new era of Kerouac scholarship to turn a Matthew Parker • 978-1-592-40662-3 • $20.00 Claire Tomalin • 978-0-14-312205-0 • $18.00 laser-sharp focus on Kerouac’s evolving ideas • Aug 2012 • Gotham • “Larceny in my Blood, • Nov 2012 • Penguin • This definitive about language, fiction vs. truth and the role of looks—and reads—like no memoir I have come biography “brings Dickens to life in all his the writer in his time....’To me,’ she writes, ‘what across before. A beautifully balanced mixture maddening contradictions” (The Washington is important is Jack’s triumph in arriving at the of honesty, artistry, and insurgent humor, this Post) • “Vivid and moving... If you plan to read voice that matched his vision.’ Of perhaps most book should be required reading for anyone only one biography of the most popular interest was her discovery of just how who has ever struggled with a dangerous habit Victorian writer, it should be this one.” important his French-Canadian heritage was to and found redemption in unbridled —The Washington Post • “Clear-eyed, Kerouac’s sense of identity....Johnson is a creativity.”—Dan White, author of The Cactus sympathetic, and scholarly....Wonderfully sensitive but admirably objective biographer. A Eaters • “An honest look at addiction, recovery, done.”—The Economist triumph of scholarship.—Kirkus (starred relapse, relapse, and relapse. Parker explores his review) bloodline of crime and love with an unwavering and unsentimental eye.” —Annie Choi, author of Happy Birthday or Whatever

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 10 Waging Heavy Peace Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors Neil Young • 978-0-399-15946-3 • $30.00 • Nov Our Lives and Transforms the World on How and Why They Do What They Do 2012 • Blue Rider Press • Young presents a Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche Edited by Meredith Maran kaleidoscopic view of personal life and musical • 978-0-399-53797-4 • $16.00 • Oct 2012 • 978-0-452-29815-6 • $16.00 • Feb 2013 • creativity. • Two veteran translators shine a spotlight on how Plume • For aspiring authors, a rich collection translation spreads culture and fuels the global of some of America’s most important literary economy • “A meditation, an exposé, and prac- voices, each answering the question: Why do tical guidebook to humanity’s continued, writers write? • Features Isabel Allende, David Language Arts / painstaking ascent of our monumental tower Baldacci, Jennifer Egan, James Frey, Sue Graf- reference / writing of Babel. Without language diversity, we would ton, Sara Gruen, Kathryn Harrison, Gish Jen, be intellectually impoverished, and with it we Sebastian Junger, Mary Karr, Michael Lewis, are enriched. But without translators to inter- Armistead Maupin, Terry McMillan, Rick Just My Type: A Book About Fonts pret and bridge that diversity, we would remain Moody, Walter Mosley, Susan Orlean, Ann Simon Garfield • 978-1-59240-746-0 • $16.00 ignorant and isolated, locked each of us in our Patchett, Jodi Picoult, Jane Smiley, and Meg • Sep 2012 • Gotham • An exploration of the own native tongue’s limited worldview.” Wolitzer. rich history and subtle powers of type • “This —K. David Harrison, Ph.D., Swarthmore College smart, funny, accessible book does for and National Geographic Society How to Not Write Bad: The Most typography what Lynne Truss’s bestselling Eats, Common Writing Problems and the Best Shoots & Leaves did for punctuation: made it Ways to Avoid Them noticeable for people who had no idea they Ben Yagoda • 978-1-59448-848-1 • $16.00 • Feb were interested in such things.”—Janet Maslin, 2013 • Riverhead • From an acclaimed cultural The New York Times • “Funny and fascinating, and literary critic and word master, a lesson in irreverent and playful yet endlessly how not to write bad (or badly) for students illuminating.”—The Atlantic and language lovers.

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