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Picador Fall 2011 Final.Qxp:New Picador Template 2007 3/2/11 4:08 PM Page 1 Picador Fall 2011_Final.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 3/2/11 4:08 PM Page 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS PICADOR PAPERBACK VERTICAL FARM, THE 31 Dr. Dickson Despommier BY NIGHTFALL 2 WHY THE WEST RULES—FOR NOW 32 Michael Cunningham Ian Morris THROUGH THE LANGUAGE GLASS 4 MARRIAGE ARTIST, THE 34 Guy Deutscher Andrew Winer WHITE HOUSE DIARY 6 TRUE MEMOIRS OF LITTLE K, THE 35 Jimmy Carter Adrienne Sharp HOW TO BECOME A SCANDAL 8 NOVEMBER BACKLIST TIE-INS 36 Laura Kipnis SLEIGHTS OF MIND 37 EYE OF THE STORM, THE 9 Stephen L. Macknik & Susana Martinez-Conde, (MOVIE TIE-IN) with Sandra Blakeslee Patrick White PADRE PIO 38 CRISIS CARAVAN, THE 10 Sergio Luzzatto Linda Polman KINGDOM UNDER GLASS 39 UNEXPECTED LIGHT, AN 11 Jay Kirk VERIFICATIONIST, THE 40 (EARLY RELEASE, (REISSUE) ON SALE AUGUST 2ND, 2011) Donald Antrim Jason Elliot ON BALANCE 42 NICKEL AND DIMED 12 Adam Phillips (EARLY RELEASE, DECEMBER BACKLIST TIE-INS 43 ON SALE AUGUST 2ND, 2011) Barbara Ehrenreich PICADOR CRIME 44 SEPTEMBER BACKLIST TIE-INS 13 RECENT PICADOR HIGHLIGHTS 46 TRAVELS IN SIBERIA 14 BESTSELLING BACKLIST 48 Ian Frazier READING GROUP GUIDES 50 CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF 16 SUBSIDARY RIGHTS 52 Nelson Mandela CUSTOMER SERVICE 54 WAIT FOR ME! 18 Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire INDEX 60 FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR 19 Hazel Rowley EDEN 20 Yael Hedaya Cover design by Henry Sene Yee AMEXICA 21 Ed Vulliamy HYPOTHERMIA 22 Arnaldur Indrid–ason OCTOBER BACKLIST TIE-INS 24 SUNSET PARK 26 Paul Auster LISTEN TO THIS 28 Alex Ross POISONING THE PRESS 30 Mark Feldstein Picador Fall 2011_Final.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 3/2/11 4:08 PM Page 2 PAPERBACK MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM By Nightfall A Novel A New York Times Bestseller “Cunningham is drawn to simple, potent plots, saving his energy for the hearts and minds, the groins and guts, of his characters. Yet he makes [us] turn the pages . [as he] puts us inside a man’s head, allowing us to look out at his life, which is more satisfying than using events to let us look inward.” —Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times Book Review Peter and Rebecca Harris: midforties, denizens of Man- hattan’s SoHo, nearing the apogee of committee careers in the arts—he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Until Rebecca’s much younger, look-alike brother, Ethan (known in the family as Mizzy, “the mistake”), comes to visit. Fiction This poetic and compelling masterpiece is a heart- 978-0-312-61043-2 breaking look at a marriage and the way we live now. $15.00 • NCR Full of shocks and after shocks, By Nightfall is a novel Trade Paperback 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 256 pp. about the uses and meaning of beauty, and the place of Hardcover love in our lives. 978-0-374-29908-8 eBook “A great writer . Cunningham has again pulled off 978-1-4299-7809-5 his trick of combining the novel of ideas with the juicy read. The characters in By Nightfall deceive, spy Also available on and gossip about one another; but while all that is Flesh and Blood going on, Nightfall also studies the concepts of beauty 978-0-312-42668-2 $15.00 and genius as they are expressed in the contemporary A Home at the End of the World art world. A delicious book.” —Newsday 978-0-312-20231-6 $15.00 The Hours 978-0-312-24302-9 $14.00 Laws for Creation 978-0-312-42607-1 $13.00 Specimen Days 978-0-312-42502-9 $14.00 2 September Picador Fall 2011_Final.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 3/2/11 4:08 PM Page 3 September “Engrossing . By Nightfall is an exemplar of the crossover megahit that authors of all genders and genres dream of: an entertaining page-turner that’s bound for, and deserving of, literary eternity.” —Meredith Mara, San Francisco Chronicle RICHARD PHIBBS “There are sentences here so powerfully precise and beautiful that they almost hover above the page.” —Karen Valby, Entertainment Weekly • NEXT Selection • National Print Advertising “Cunningham reigns supreme. For pure, elegant • National Public Radio efficient beauty, [he] is astounding. He’s developed Campaign this captivating narrative voice that mingles his own • National Print Coverage sharp commentary with Peter’s much-heroic desire. • National Bestseller Half Henry James, half James Joyce, but all Cunning- The New York Times ham, it’s an irresistible performance.” Los Angeles Times —Ron Charles, The Washington Post IndieBound • Indie Next Pick “[Cunningham’s] vigorous explorations of art and its • Select Author Events meaning—along with a thick veil of eroticism—keep • Internet Marketing the pages turning.” —People (four stars) Digital Advertising and Social Media Campaign Reading Group Promotion and Online Reading Group Guide Picador Reading Group e-Newsletter and Website Feature michaelcunninghamwriter.com • Backlist Promotion MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM’s novel The Hours won both the Pulitzer Prize and a PEN/Faulkner Award, and became an Academy Award–winning film, starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep. An earlier novel, A Home at the End of the World, was also made into a film, starring Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek, and Robin Wright Penn. He lives in New York. September 3 Picador Fall 2011_Final.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 3/2/11 4:08 PM Page 4 PAPERBACK GUY DEUTSCHER Through the Language Glass Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages An Economist Best Book of the Year “A book so robustly researched and wonderfully told that it is hard to put down . Deutscher brings together more than a century’s worth of captivating characters, incidents, and experi- ments that illuminate the relationship between words and mind.” —Christine Kenneally, New Scientist The debate began nearly a century ago: Where does language come from, is it an artifact of our culture, or written in our very DNA? In recent years, the leading linguists have seemingly settled the issue—all lan- guage is fundamentally the same, and does not shape our thinking in any significant way. Guy Deutscher says they’re wrong. From Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Amazon, and through a strange and dazzling Language Arts history of the color blue, Deutscher argues that our 978-0-312-61049-4 $18.00 • NCR mother tongues do indeed shape our experience of the Trade Paperback world. Audacious, delightful, and provocative, Through 6 1/8" x 9 1/4" • 320 pp. the Language Glass is certain to be a classic of intellec- Includes 8 b&w photos; 10 b&w tual discovery. illust.; one 8-pg color insert Hardcover “Deutscher confidently asserts that a language influ- 978-0-8050-8195-4 ences how its users perceive the world. The book is a eBook thrilling and challenging ride.” 978-1-4299-7011-2 —Christopher Schoppa, The Washington Post “Fascinating reading . Deutscher does not merely weave little-known facts into an absorbing story. He also takes account of the vast changes in our percep- tions of other races and cultures over the past two centuries. Enjoy the little-trodden linguistic bypaths along which he so knowledgeably leads.” Also available —Derek Bickerton, The New York Times Book Review The Unfolding of Language 978-0-805-08012-4 $17.00 4 September Picador Fall 2011_Final.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 3/2/11 4:08 PM Page 5 September “A gifted writer, [Deutscher] picks his way nimbly past overblown arguments to a sensible compromise. A strong case for exploring more limited forms of lin- guistic relativity . it is through just such incremen- tal distinctions that science advances, and that we move ever closer to understanding the human mind.” —Amanda Katz, The Boston Globe “Jaw-droppingly wonderful . A marvelous and JANIE STEEN surprising book. The ironic, playful tone at the begin- ning gradates into something serious that is never pompous, something intellectually and historically • National Print Coverage complex and yet always pellucidly laid out. It left me • Internet Marketing breathless and dizzy with delight.” Targeted Blog Outreach —Stephen Fry, presenter of Stephen Fry in America, www.guydeutscher.org host of QI, and author of Moab Is My Washpot • Academic Marketing Campaign GUY DEUTSCHER is the author of The Unfolding of Language. He is an honorary research fellow at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Manchester. He lives in England. September 5 Picador Fall 2011_Final.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 3/2/11 4:08 PM Page 6 PAPERBACK JIMMY CARTER White House Diary A New York Times Bestseller The personally annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter—filled with insights into his presidency and his lasting impact on issues that still affect America and the world today Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter made several entries in a private diary. He provided unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders, recording his thoughts, impressions, delights, and frustrations. But this extraordinary document has never been made public—until now. By carefully selecting the most illuminating and relevant entries, Carter has provided us with an astonishingly intimate view of his presidency. Day by day, we see his forceful advocacy for nuclear containment, sustainable energy, human rights, and peace in the Middle Biography East. We witness his interactions with such 978-0-312-57719-3 complex personalities as Teddy Kennedy, Henry $20.00 • $23.00 Can. Kissinger, Joe Biden, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Trade Paperback Begin. 6" x 9" • 592 pp. Remarkably, thirty years after the fact, he has Includes one 24-page b&w insert annotated the diary with his candid reflections on Hardcover the people and events that shaped his presidency, 978-0-374-28099-4 and on the many lessons learned.
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