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Doubles
Counterpoint 2010; US$ 15.95Slow Smith is in a slump. He?s a professional tennis player stuck in his hometown, serving to an empty court. His wife is in a coma and he?s afraid he?s to blame. Left behind are her Polaroids, obsessive daily records of their life together. Meanwhile Kaz, Slow?s lifelong doubles partner, is traveling the world while playing with someone new. Then... more...
The Man With Two Arms
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 24.95Henry Granville, a baseball fanatic and high school teacher, spends hours in the basement with his young son Danny, introducing him to balls of all shapes and sizes. He even turns the basement into an indoor stadium. Danny quickly distinguishes himself from his peers, most conspicuously by his ability to throw perfectly with either arm-a feat virtually... more...
Bliss, Remembered
Overlook 2010; US$ 25.95More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA more...
The Sportswriter
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding of the heart, and the not-too-distant losses of a career, a son, and a marriage. In the course of the... more...
Match Made In Heaven
Kensington Publishing Corp. 2010; US$ 11.20So why should I save you?. That's the question Elliott Goodman hears in the OR as he's about to have emergency surgery following a heart attack. But it isn't Elliott's surgeon who's asking. It's God. As in The Almighty. And God has a wager for Elliott. He challenges him to an eighteen-hole golf match. If Elliott wins, he... more...
Everybody's All-american
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 14.95"Gavin Grey is everyone's All-American. A star running back at the University of North Carolina in the late 1950s, he graces the covers of Time and LIFE magazines and appears on the ""Ed Sullivan Show.""" more...
A Fan's Notes
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.00This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure's nightmarish decent into the underside of American life and his resurrection to the wisdom that emerges from despair. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Parents Behaving Badly
Touchstone 2011; US$ 14.99An uproarious, surprising, and poignant satire of American suburbia and youth sports gone wild When Ben and Jili Holden must move from Manhattan with their three children back to their small hometown of Palace Valley, California, they are forced to reconcile the parents they?ve become with the dreams they had, the choices they?ve made, and a sex... more...
Chinaman
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00Where is Pradeep S. Mathew - spin bowler extraordinaire and 'the greatest cricketer to walk the earth'? Retired sportswriter W. G. Karunasena is dying, and he wants to know. W.G. will spend his final months drinking arrack, making his wife unhappy, ignoring his son and tracking down the mysterious Pradeep. On his quest he will also uncover... more...
Missing Links
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00Missing Links is the story of four middle-class buddies who live outside Boston and for years have been 1) utterly obsessed with golf and 2) a regular foursome at Ponkaquoque Municipal Course and Deli, not so fondly known as Ponky, the single worst golf course in America. Just adjacent to the municipal course lies the Mayflower Country Club, the... more...









