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Real Man Adventures
McSweeney's 2012; US$ 11.99A few years ago, the novelist T Cooper wrote his parents a letter telling them he ?wasn?t their daughter anymore.? And that was the ?good news.? Real Man Adventures is Cooper?s brash, wildly inventive, and often comic exploration of the paradoxes and pleasures of masculinity. He takes us through his transition into identifying as male, and how... more...
A Moment in the Sun
McSweeney's 2011; US$ 11.99It?s 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. Spanning five years and half a dozen countries, this is the unforgettable story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century,... more...
Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty
McSweeney's 2012; US$ 9.99In Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty , Diane Williams lays bare the urgency and weariness that shape our lives in stories honed sharper than ever. With sentences auguring revelation and explosion, Williams's unsettling stories?a cryptic meeting between neighbors, a woman's sexual worries, a graveside discussion, a chimney on fire?are narrated with razor-sharp... more...
At Home on the Range
McSweeney's 2012; US$ 12.99Recently, while moving into a new house, Elizabeth Gilbert unpacked some boxes of family books that had been sitting in her mother's attic for decades. Among the old, dusty hardcovers was a book called At Home on the Range (or, How To Make Friends with Your Stove) by Gilbert's great-grandmother, Margaret Yardley Potter. Having only been peripherally... more...
Magic Hours
McSweeney's 2012; US$ 9.99In Magic Hours , award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process. He takes us from the set of The Big Bang Theory to the first novel of Ernest Hemingway to the final work of David Foster Wallace; from the films of Werner Herzog to the film of Tommy Wiseau to the editorial meeting in which Paula Fox's work... more...
The End of War
McSweeney's 2012; US$ 9.99War is a fact of human nature. As long as we exist, it exists. That's how the argument goes. But longtime Scientific American writer John Horgan disagrees. Applying the scientific method to war leads Horgan to a radical conclusion: biologically speaking, we are just as likely to be peaceful as violent. War is not preordained, and furthermore, it... more...
Hot Pink
McSweeney's 2012; US$ 11.99Adam Levin?s debut novel The Instructions was one of the most buzzed-about books of 2010, a sprawling universe of ?death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth? ( Rolling Stone ). Now, in the stories of Hot Pink , Levin delivers ten smaller worlds, shaken snow-globes of overweight romantics, legless prodigies,... more...
Emmaus
McSweeney's 2012; US$ 9.99The secular and the pious. The rich and the poor. Those with ?a capacity for destiny? and those who ?cannot afford it.? Emmaus is a world of stark contrasts, one in which four young men?all from proud, struggling families, and all lusting after Andre, a hyper- sexual woman?are goaded from adolescence to manhood in a torrent of exploits and crises,... more...
A Hologram for the King
McSweeney's 2012; US$ 14.99In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter?s college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King , Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering... more...
A Million Heavens
McSweeney's 2012; US$ 11.99On the top floor of a small hospital, an unlikely piano prodigy lies in a coma, attended to by his gruff, helpless father. Outside the clinic, a motley vigil assembles beneath a reluctant New Mexico winterstrangers in search of answers, a brush with the mystical, or just an escape. To some the boy is a novelty, to others a religion. Just beyond... more...









