Chances Are . A novel Richard Russo From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin' age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971. Now, more than forty years later, as this new weekend unfolds, three lives and that of a significant other are displayed in their entirety while the distant past confounds the present like a relentless squall of surprise and discovery. Shot through with Russo's trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are . also introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the reader's heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga of how friendship's bonds are every bit as constricting and rewarding as those of family or any other community. For both longtime fans and lucky newcomers, Chances Are . is a stunning demonstration of a highly acclaimed author deepening and expanding his ON SALE 7/30/2019 remarkable achievement. KNOPF HIS FIRST FREE-STANDING NOVEL IN TEN YEARS, since That Old Cape Magic, is a HARDCOVER guaranteed literary event right out of the gate. BACK ON THE BEACH: Whereas That Old Cape Magic takes place just across the water, 978-1-101-94774-6 here Martha's Vineyard is not only this novel's primary setting but also its cauldron. $26.95/$35.95 Rick has put characters on the island before and knows it intimately, and the Vineyard's striking, sometimes spooky mythos infuses Chances Are . with hopes, Category: Fiction regrets, and dreams. The new suspense-and-mystery wrinkle is sure to add fresh and BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary different readers to his considerable following. BISAC 2: Fiction - Friendship RICK'S LUCKY THIRTEENTH: His previous dozen books have sold over 3.3 million copies BISAC 3: Fiction - Small Town & Rural for this company, and their individual sales histories should hearten all of us. Page Count: 320 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 AND RICK'S OWN HISTORY: In addition to the astonishing fact above, there's his Spine/Depth: 39/32 Carton Count: 12 Pulitzer Prize, his Indie Champion Award from the ABA, his Grand Prix de Littérature Américane in France, the terrific film adaptations of Nobody's Fool and Empire Falls, his great popularity for the Knopf Speakers Bureau, and the simple truth there's not a Marketing and Publicity writer at large in this country today who's more respected, admired, and genuinely Publicist: Gabrielle Brooks liked. Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Media Appearances, including About the Author/Illustrator NPR and Print Features Author Residence: Portland, ME Author Hometown: Gloversville, NY Women's Magazine Coverage RICHARD RUSSO is the author of eight previous novels, two collections of stories, a Men's Magazine Coverage collection of essays, and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Empire Falls, which like Nobody's Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning Blog Coverage HBO miniseries; in 2016 he was given the Indie Champion Award by the American Author Tour in Summer including New Booksellers Association; and in 2017 he received France's Grand Prix de Littérature York, Boston, New England, DC, Portland, Américaine. He lives in Portland, Maine, where his daughter Emily runs Print, a terrific ME, Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod indie bookstore. 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Beginning nine years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by chain retail, and London, where both frenzied riots and Olympic fever plague the streets, Middle England tracks a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through the transformation of their society. There are newlyweds Ian and Sophie, who disagree about England's future and, possibly, their relationship; Doug, the political commentator who writes impassioned columns about austerity from his Chelsea townhouse while his radical, teenage daughter undertakes a relentless quest for universal justice; Benjamin Trotter, who embarks on an apparently doomed new career in middle age, and his father Colin, whose last wish is to vote LEAVE in the Brexit referendum. Through all these lives we see this very tentatively united kingdom itself: a place of nostalgia and delusion, bewilderment and barely suppressed rage. As acutely alert to the absurdity of the political classes as it is compassionate about those left behind by elites of all sorts, this is a novel only Jonathan Coe could have written. UK ACCLAIM: Prior to its UK publication in November, Middle England has already ON SALE 8/20/2019 garnered glowing advance praise, with The Bookseller proclaiming it, "Laugh-out-loud KNOPF funny . Incisive and brilliant about our divided country and the deep chasms HARDCOVER revealed by the vote to leave. Do not miss." RESONANT TOPIC: Many observers see the electoral selections of Trump and Brexit as 978-0-525-65647-0 two halves of the same problem, and American readers will find that the peculiarities examined in Middle England speak not only to the divides in the UK, but also, and $27.95/$36.95 weirdly spookily, to what we can safely call the civil war in progress here. APT TIMING: While Coe's last novel, Number 11, was published in the heart of national Category: Fiction hysteria--indeed, only four days after Trump's inauguration--the August 2019 BISAC 1: Fiction - Satire publication of Middle England--comfortably between our 2018 midterms and the BISAC 2: Fiction - Literary looming 2020 election--in fact positions this political satire perfectly, and our publicity BISAC 3: Fiction - Humorous - Black Humor outreach will extend well beyond the book pages into op-ed and Page Count: 448 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 current-nightmare-affairs sections. Spine/Depth: 48/32 Carton Count: 12 Advance Praise from the UK for Middle England Marketing and Publicity "Sublimely good. Funny, tender, human and intelligent . The state-of-the-nation Publicist: Nimra Chohan novel to end them all. Jonathan Coe's best since What a Carve Up!."--India Knight Marketing Contact: Emily Wilkerson "An astute, enlightened and enlightening journey into the heart of our current national National Media Attention including NPR identity crisis. Both moving and funny. As we'd expect from Coe"--Ben Elton and Print Features "The first great Brexit novel."--Sathnam Sanghera Online Interviews, Reviews and Literary "Let me add to the chorus of praise for Jonathan Coe's new book, Middle England. Blog Coverage Easily my favourite of his since What a Carve Up!, which did for Thatcherism what Coverage in and on Political and News Middle England does for Brexit."--John Crace Publications and Sites "Brilliant. Read it too fast, finished it too soon."--Nigella Lawson "Coe's comic critique of a divided country dazzles . Properly laugh-out-loud funny . it is also incisive and brilliant about our divided country and the deep chasms Online Advertising campaign on the revealed by the vote to leave. Do not miss."--The Bookseller Litbreaker Network About the Author/Illustrator Facebook and Instagram Advertising campaign targeting comp authors and Author Residence: London, England readers of the BBC, the Guardian, and the JONATHAN COE's awards include the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix du Meilleur Livre London Review of Books Étranger, the Prix Médicis Étranger, and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Prepub promotion on Goodreads Comic Writing. He lives in London with his wife and their two daughters. KDPG newsletter placement Influencer outreach Rights Territories: US, Canada, open market (no Return indicator: Full copies only Reprint: Yes Europe) Book Club: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Audio: Yes Translation: No Special Markets: British: No Agency: FELICITY BRYAN ASSOCIATES LTD.