Spring 2015 - Knopf Doubleday
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Spring 2015 - Knopf Doubleday
Spring 2015 Amnesia A novel Peter Carey From the two-time Booker Prize winner: an exhilarating, exceedingly timely new novel--at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny--that journeys to the place where the cyber underworld collides with international power politics. When Gaby Baillieux released the Angel Worm virus into Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walked free. And because the Americans run the prisons--as they do so many parts of her country--the doors of some 5,000 jails in the US also opened. Was this a mistake, or a declaration of cyber war? What, if anything, does it have to do with the largely-forgotten Battle of Brisbane between American and Australian forces in 1942? Or with the CIA-influenced coup in Australia in 1975? Felix Moore--known to himself as "Australia's last serving left-wing journalist"--is determined to write Gaby's biography in order to find the answers, to save her, to save his career, and perhaps to save his country. But how to get Gaby to cooperate? Bringing together the world of hackers and radicals with the "special relationship" between the United States, the CIA, and Australia, Amnesia is Peter Carey at his best, a novel that speaks powerfully about our history but most urgently about our present. ON SALE 1/13/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35277-2 $25.95 Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary BISAC 2: Fiction - Historical BISAC 3: Fiction - Thrillers - Technological Page Count: 320 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 36/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erinn B. Hartman Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Select Author Appearances Extra Galleys with color covers Also Available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in The New York Times Book Review Online Advertising Campaign, including Shelf Awareness, NYTimes.com, Guardian.com (U.S. readers), Salon.com, SFChronicle.com, LATimes.com, Boston.com, NYMag.com, and Facebook Early Giveaways through Shelf Awareness and GoodReads Downloadable frontlist/backlist poster Bookmarks Library Marketing Campaign Reading Group Guide Jacket Blowups Available UNKNOWN KNOWNS: Set in 2010, the book explores several intentionally well-hidden episodes in U.S.-Australian relations, stretching back to World War II. COULDN'T BE MORE TIMELY: Secret activities undertaken by the CIA in the past have new resonance in our secretly super-surveyed present culture. PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR: Carey has won the Booker twice. the Commonwealth Writers' Prize twice, and the Miles Franklin Literary Award three times. Praise for Peter Carey "Peter Carey [has] that magnificent vitality, that ebullient delight in character, detail and language that turns a novel into an important book." --Beryl Bainbridge, The New York Times Book Review "One of the finest living writers in English. His books satisfy both intellectually and emotionally: he is lyrical yet never forgets the imperative to entertain." --The Economist About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: New York, NY Author Hometown: Victoria, Australia PETER CAREY is the author of twelve previous novels and has twice received the Booker Prize. His other honors include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York City for the past twenty years. Rights Territories: US, open market (no Europe, no Canada) Audio: No British: No Restriction: US,OpnMkt(no EU/CAN) Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles The Chemistry Of Tears/Carey, Peter/HC The Chemistry Of Tears/Carey, Peter/TR Chemistry Of Tears, The (Ebk)/Carey, Pet… Parrot And Olivier In America/Carey, Pet… Parrot And Olivier In America/Carey, Pet… Parrot And Olivier In Am (Ebk)/Carey, Pe… His Illegal Self/Carey, Peter/HC His Illegal Self/Carey, Peter/TR Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: ROGERS, COLERIDGE & WHITE LTD ISBN 978-0-385-35278-9 ISBN 978-0-307-59271-2 978-0-307-47608-1 978-0-307-95839-6 978-0-307-59262-0 978-0-307-47601-2 978-0-307-59301-6 978-0-307-26372-8 978-0-307-27649-0 OS 1/15 On sale 5/12 2/13 5/12 4/10 1/11 4/10 2/08 2/09 Publisher Knopf Publisher Knopf Vintage Vintage Knopf Vintage Vintage Knopf Vintage Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: No Special Markets: Agent: DEBORAH ROGERS Price Price $26.00 $15.00 $11.99 $26.95 $15.95 $11.99 $24.95 $14.95 A Bad Character A novel Deepti Kapoor A highly charged debut novel about a young woman in India, and the love that both shatters and transforms her. She is twenty and restless in New Delhi. Her mother has died; her father has left for Singapore. He is a few years older, just back to India from New York. When they meet in a café one afternoon, she--lonely, hungry for experience, yearning to break free of tradition--casts aside her fears and throws herself headlong into a love affair, one that takes her where she has never been before. Told in a voice at once gritty and lyrical, mournful and frank, A Bad Character is an unforgettable hymn to an exhilarating, dangerous city, and a portrait of desire and its consequences as timeless as it is universal. ON SALE 1/20/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35274-1 $24.00/$28.00 Can. Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary BISAC 2: Fiction - Contemporary Women BISAC 3: Fiction - Coming Of Age Page Count: 240 Trim Size: 5 x 7-1/2 Spine/Depth: 31/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erica Hinsley Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features Women's Magazine Coverage Extra Galleys Also Available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in The New York Times Book Review Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, Salon.com, and Facebook Early giveaways through Shelf Awareness and GoodReads Library Marketing Campaign Reading Group Guide VOICE: Fearless, intimate, and immediate, A Bad Character portrays with seamless authenticity a new generation of young women from around the world who are coming into their own--and sometimes paying a steep price for newfound freedoms. This breakthrough story will hit a nerve, and be covered both on and off the book page. COMPS: A vision of a life in transition, and a burgeoning sexuality, that evokes Marguerite Duras's The Lover; the raw, intoxicating storytelling of Josephine Hart's Damage, Scott Spencer's Endless Love, and James Salter's A Sport and a Pastime; an exquisitely rendered sense of place reminiscent of Paul Bowles. AUTHOR: Kapoor is a dynamic, natural promoter who will speak eloquently both to the changes sweeping across today's India and to her personal story of writing this book. INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION: Released this summer by Penguin India, Jonathan Cape in the UK, and more territories to come; we will benefit from early reviews. Vogue India has hailed the novel as "the literary fiction debut of the year." NEW TAKE ON INDIA: Many novels from India have found devoted global audiences, but this one captures Delhi in all its vital splendor--never before have we heard a voice from India quite like this one. Praise from India "Twenty-first-century Delhi needed a voice, and here it is, in all its dark majesty. A marvel, a novel of stunning beauty and originality." --Rana Dasgupta, author of Solo "Quick to move, charged with the energy of a racy page-turner, and visceral in its treatment of female desire and sexuality." --Mint "A vivid account of a young woman coming of age, finding her sexuality and herself against the backdrop of a dangerous city." --The Financial Express "Sinewy in its prose and fierce in its sentiment, this is a book to be read in one go. It is liberating, especially for any young woman who wants to live life looking her demons in the eye." --India Today "This stunning novel about female desire is the literary fiction debut of the year. Kapoor is a compelling new voice. A fan of Marguerite Duras's The Lover? Get this book." --Vogue India About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Goa/Southern India Author Hometown: Delhi DEEPTI KAPOOR grew up in Northern India and attended college in New Delhi, where she worked for several years as a journalist. A Bad Character is her first novel. 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Sometimes an Art Nine Essays on History Bernard Bailyn From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflect a lifetime of erudition and accomplishments in history. The past has always been elusive: how can we understand people whose worlds were utterly different from our own without imposing our own standards and hindsight? What did things feel like in the moment when outcomes were uncertain? How can we recover the uncertainties of the past, before the outcomes were known? What kind of imagination goes into the writing of transformative history? Are there latent trends that distinguish the kinds of history we now write? How unique was North America among the far-flung peripheries of the early British empire? As Bernard Bailyn argues in this elegant, deeply informed collection of essays, history always combines approximations based on incomplete data, with empathic imagination and the interweaving of strands of knowledge into a narrative which also explains. This is a stirring and insightful work drawing on the wisdom and perspective of a career spanning more than five decades--a book that will appeal to anyone interested in history. ON SALE 1/20/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-1-101-87447-9 $28.00/$34.00 Can. Category: History BISAC 1: History - United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) BISAC 2: History - Study & Teaching BISAC 3: History - Essays Page Count: 336 Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4 Spine/Depth: 38/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Gabrielle Brooks Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books Online Advertising on history sites, including HistoryNet.com; About.com's History pages: American History, 19th and 20th Century History, Military History, Ancient / Classical History; HistoryCentral.com; USHistory.org; Life.time.com; Brittanica.com; SmithsonianMag.com; and WashingtonPost.com, Boston.com, NYTimes.com HIGHLY RESPECTED AUTHOR: A specialist in American colonial and Revolutionary-era history, Bailyn is one of the most important and esteemed historians in the United States. PERFECT FOR STUDENTS and for enthusiasts of history at all levels RECENT ACCLAIM: Celebrating a lifetime's contribution to American scholarship, in 2010 Bailyn was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Boston, MA BERNARD BAILYN is currently Adams University Professor emeritus at Harvard University. He founded and for fifteen years directed the International Seminar on the Atlantic World, which helped reorient the study of the Atlantic region in the early modern era. His previous books include Education in the Forming of American Society; The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, which received the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes in 1968; The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson, which won the 1975 National Book Award for History; Voyagers to the West, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987; Atlantic History: Concept and Contours; and To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders. 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Wood… ISBN 978-1-101-87448-6 ISBN 978-0-394-51570-0 978-0-375-70346-1 978-0-307-96082-5 9780375413773 9780375713088 978-0-307-42978-0 9780394515694 ISBN 9781594201547 OS 1/15 On sale 11/12 8/13 11/12 1/03 2/04 12/07 10/86 On sale 03/08 Publisher Knopf Publisher Knopf Vintage Vintage Knopf Vintage Vintage Knopf Publisher Penguin Press Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: Price Price $35.00/$41.00 Can. $17.95/$20.95 Can. $13.99/$15.99 Can. $26.00/$40.00 Can. $15.00/$17.00 Can. $11.99/$12.99 Can. $35.00/$46.50 Can. Price The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe A novel Romain Puertolas A wildly charming comedic debut: a novel about a fake fakir who travels from India to France in order to shop at IKEA--and unwittingly embarks on a European tour that is certainly the first of its kind. (Swedish meatballs not included, but highly recommended.) A fakir from rural India arrives in Paris with one goal: to get to IKEA. A professional con artist with only a counterfeit hundred-euro note in the pocket of his silk trousers, the fakir is confident that his usual bag of tricks is all he needs. But his plan goes quickly awry: when he steps inside a wardrobe at the iconic Swedish retailer, it's only the first in a series of accidents that send him on a spontaneous tour of Europe. As his journey progresses in the most unpredictable of ways, the fakir finds unlikely friends in even unlikelier places. To his surprise, the stirrings of love well up in his heart, even as his adventures lead to meditations on the perils of immigration and the universal desire for a better life. With some of the manic energy of the Marx Brothers and the biting social commentary of Candide, this unforgettable comic romp around Europe is propelled by laughter, love, and redemption. ON SALE 1/27/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35295-6 $22.95 Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary BISAC 2: Fiction - Humorous BISAC 3: Fiction - Romance - Romantic Comedy Page Count: 320 Trim Size: 4-3/8 x 7-1/4 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Jessica Purcell Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns National Print Features National Online interviews, reviews, and literary blog coverage Extra Galleys with color covers Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in Bookforum and Harper's Online Advertising, including NYTimes.com, Salon.com, The Millions, DesignSponge, ApartmentTherapy.com, Goodreads, and Facebook Online Promotion, including Goodreads giveaways and outreach to bloggers FRENCH BEST SELLER: A #1 best seller in France, where it was published in April 2013. Rights have already been sold in 35 countries. ENGLISH-LANGUAGE RH EDITIONS: we acquired this novel along with Harvill Secker (UK), RH Australia, and RH Canada, who will all publish in August. AWARDS: a finalist for the 2013 Prix Renaudot. COMPS: readers who enjoyed the frenetic creativity of Jonas Jonasson's The One-Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared and Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore will love this novel. BOOK CLUB: a quick and enjoyable read that also raises important questions about immigration issues, the novel is a whistle-stop tour around Europe that reading groups will enjoy. Praise from abroad for The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe "I fell in love with an absolutely fantastic book . . . Wonderfully funny, brash, brimming with ideas. It's brilliant." --Michel Crépu, France Inter "Romain Puértolas, the mad hatter . . . This great satire of today's world and men boldly revitalizes the art of the fable, including the moral." --Le Point (Paris) "This summer's must-read novel...quirky, hilarious, elegantly written" --The Telegraph "Full of quirky charm... Delightful" --The Times "A madcap romantic adventure... Blessed with an energetic bonhomie that's thoroughly endearing" --Mail on Sunday "A laugh-out-loud funny debut novel that is as bonkers as the title suggests" --Candis Magazine "A genuinely funny novel" --Vogue About the Author/Illustrator Author Hometown: Montpellier, France ROMAIN PUÉRTOLAS was born in Montpellier and has lived in France, Spain, and the UK, where he has been a DJ, singer-songwriter, language teacher, translator-interpreter, and steward. He most recently worked as a police inspector with the French border service, specializing in document fraud. The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir was a #1 best seller in France. Translated from the French by Sam Taylor. www.romainpuertolas.com Rights Territories: US, open market (no Europe, no Canada) Audio: Yes British: No Restriction: US,OpnMkt(no EU/CAN) Other Editions E-book Comp Titles Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore/Sloan,… The One-Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed… Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: THE FRENCH PUBLISHERS' AGENCY ISBN 978-0-385-35296-3 ISBN 9780374214913 9781401324643 OS 1/15 On sale 10/12 09/12 Publisher Knopf Publisher FSG Hyperion Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: LUCINDA KARTER Price Price $16.00 $16.00 Schubert's Winter Journey Anatomy of an Obsession Ian Bostridge ON SALE 1/27/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-96163-1 $29.00 Category: Music BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians BISAC 2: Music - History & Criticism BISAC 3: History - Modern - 18th Century Page Count: 528 Trim Size: 5-1/8 x 7 Carton Count: 12 Illustrations: 59 FULL COLOR & B&W IN TEXT Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Josefine Kals Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Music Press Classical Radio Station interviews 3-city Author Tour: Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. Online Advertising on classical music sites, including sinfinimusic.com, classical.net, classicalconnect.com, and NYTimes.com, USAToday.com, YouTube Local Advertising during music tour in April Outreach to classical music bloggers An exploration of the world's most famous and challenging song cycle by one of the world's most renowned singers, a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themes--literary, historical, psychological--that weave through the twenty-four songs comprising this legendary masterpiece. Written in 1828, in the last months of the young Schubert's life, Winterreise ("Winter's Journey"), has come to be considered the single greatest piece of music ever written for the male solo voice. Deceptively brief--the twenty-four short poems are performed uninterrupted in 70 minutes--it nonetheless has an emotional depth and power that no music of its kind has ever equaled. Originally intended to be sung to an intimate gathering, performances of Winterreise now pack the greatest concert halls around the world. Drawing on his firsthand experience with this work (he has performed it more than one hundred times), on his musical knowledge, and on his training as a scholar, Ian Bostridge teases out the enigmas and subtle meanings of each song, exploring the world and the states of heart and mind in which Schubert created them, and the exquisite resonance and affinities that continue, even today, to move us so profoundly. THE PERFECT COMBINATION OF AUTHOR AND SUBJECT: Ian Bostridge is universally recognized as one of the greatest Lieder interpreters of our day, and his previous books have been very well received (see quotes below). There is arguably no one more suitable to take on this subject. WINTERRIESE ITSELF: Universally loved among classical music aficionados, all of whom will have to have this book. Praise from the U.K. for A Singer's Notebook "These are the thoughts of a profoundly engaged artist . . . provocative, astringent, capable of arresting insights." --The Independent "A consistently lively, learned, urbane and passionate book, once opened not likely to be closed until you have read it all" --BBC Music Magazine About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: London IAN BOSTRIDGE performs regularly throughout Europe, North America and the Far East to outstanding critical acclaim. He read Modern History at Oxford and received a D.Phil in 1990. He is the author of Witchcraft and Its Transformations c.1650-c.1750 and A Singer's Notebook. He is Humanitas Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and a regular contributor to The Guardian and the TLS. He is married to the writer and critic Lucasta Miller. They live in London with their two children. Rights Territories: US and open market (no Canada) Audio: Yes British: No Restriction: US, Opn Mkt (no CAN) Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles A Singer's Notebook/Bostridge, Ian /HC Comp Titles Bach/Gardiner, John Eliot/HC The First Four Notes/Guerrieri, Matthew/… The First Four Notes/Guerrieri, Matthew/… Why Mahler?/Lebrecht, Norman/HC Why Mahler?/Lebrecht, Norman/TR ISBN 978-0-307-96164-8 ISBN 9780571252459 ISBN 978-0-375-41529-6 978-0-307-59328-3 978-0-8041-7019-2 978-0-375-42381-9 978-1-4000-9657-2 OS 1/15 On sale 09/11 On sale 10/13 11/12 3/14 10/10 11/11 Publisher Knopf Publisher Faber & Faber (UK) Publisher Knopf Knopf Vintage Pantheon Anchor Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: Price Price Price $35.00 $26.95/$32.00 Can. $16.95/$19.95 Can. $27.95/$32.00 Can. $16.00/$18.00 Can. Washington's Revolution The Making of America's First Leader Robert Middlekauff ON SALE 2/3/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-1-101-87423-3 $30.00/$35.00 Can. Category: History BISAC 1: History - United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Presidents BISAC 3: History - Military - United States Page Count: 384 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 43/32 Carton Count: 12 Illustrations: 16 PP OF PHOTOS + 5 MAPS Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Brittany Morrongiello Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle National Print Features Coverage on History, Military, and Political Sites and Blogs National Print Advertising in The Atlantic Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, WashingtonPost.com, Boston.com, Philly.com; on history sites, including HistoryNet.com, About.com's History pages: American History, HistoryCentral.com, USHistory.org, Life.time.com, Brittanica.com, SmithsonianMag.com Quote Card Campaign, featuring new facts revealed in the book, and promoted on social media, including on Facebook to the millions of fans of American history and George Washington President's Day Social Media Campaign teasing out facts from the book A vivid new portrait of the formative years that made George Washington a great leader, from a highly respected and accomplished historian who is a Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist. George Washington was famously unknowable but Robert Middlekauff penetrates the mystique to reveal the fears, values, and passions that drove him. Rich in psychological details regarding Washington's temperament, idiosyncrasies, and experiences, this book shows us a self-conscious Washington who grew in confidence and experience as a young soldier, businessman, and Virginian gentleman; and was transformed into an American patriot by the revolutionary ferment of the 1760s and 70s. Taking command of an army constantly in dire need--without adequate food, weapons, and, at times, even clothing and shoes right up until the end--Washington displayed incredible persistence and resourcefulness, and evolved into a leader who understood perhaps better than anyone the crucial role the army had to play in the formation of a new American society. Washington, Middlekauff leaves no doubt, was at the heart not just of the revolution's course and outcome, but also the success of the nation that it produced. This is an essential book for understanding the character of one of America's great figures. LEADERSHIP: Washington was never a great field tactician; he won the war by inspiring his men to continue fighting despite terrible conditions and long odds. Middlekauff shows how Washington's persistence and loyalty to his men made him the great leader he was. AUTHOR EXPERTISE: Middlekauff is an expert historian whose work will shed light for even the most knowledgeable of readers. PAST PRIZES: Middlekauff's critical track record is exemplary, having previously won the Bancroft prize, and been a finalist for the Pulitzer. A NEW AUDIENCE: This is the first book for Middlekauff with a trade publisher and presents a new opportunity to take his work to a wider audience. "This is not just another account of George Washington's leadership in the Revolutionary War; it is special. It is perceptive, balanced, judicious, and, most important, clearly and succinctly written. A marvelous achievement." --Gordon. S. Wood, author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution "Brilliantly concise, insightful, and emotionally riveting . . . New understanding of the transformation of Washington from a provincial Virginian to an advocate of the common cause of the American nation . . . Enlightening and pure pleasure." --Richard Beeman, author of Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Oakland ROBERT MIDDLEKAUFF is Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been Director of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (1983--1988), and Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. His books include The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals 1596--1728, which won the Bancroft Prize; The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763--1789, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies. 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Press U. of California Press U. of California Press Publisher Knopf Penguin Press Penguin Books Knopf Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: Price Price Price $26.95/$32.00 Can. $40.00 $20.00 $29.95/$34.00 Can. A Spool of Blue Thread A novel Anne Tyler From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different too: Abby and Red are growing older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them, and the fate of the house so lovingly built by Red's father. Brimming with the luminous insight, humor, and compassion that are Anne Tyler's hallmarks, this capacious novel takes us across three generations of the Whitshanks, their shared stories and long-held secrets, all the unguarded and richly lived moments that combine to define who and what they are as a family. ON SALE 2/10/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-1-101-87427-1 $25.95 Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Contemporary Women BISAC 2: Fiction - Family Saga BISAC 3: Fiction - Literary Page Count: 368 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 41/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Paul Bogaards Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Online Coverage Women's Magazine and Blog Coverage Advance Reader's Edition (Also available as an eGalley) National Print Advertising Campaign, including The New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, LATimes.com, WashPost.com, BatimoreSun.com, Salon, NYROB.com, NPR.org, EW.com, USAToday.com, Fandango, IMDb, and more; major Facebook (preorder and on sale) Major GoodReads Campaign, including newsletter interview and Q&A on her author page Shelf Awareness for Readers ad with giveaway Fan Ambassador Campaign with giveaway of The Accidental Tourist and A Spool of Blue Thread Twitter Campaign Book Trailer Reading Group Guide Major Book Club Outreach, including Bookbrowse book club promotion Major Library Marketing Campaign Jacket Blowups Available NO ONE DOES FAMILY LIKE ANNE TYLER: This novel is among her biggest, deepest, and widest-reaching--reminiscent of her best-selling classics Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant or Back When We Were Grownups--and more of a family saga than anything she's written before. BEST-SELLING AND PRIZEWINNING: Tyler's books have achieved major commercial and literary success. Several of her novels have been #1 New York Times best sellers. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Breathing Lessons, and the National Book Critic Circle Award for The Accidental Tourist. AUDIENCE: This novel has the potential to find a broader readership than we've seen. We expect it will not only reinvigorate loyal fans, but also win the hearts of a new generation of Anne Tyler readers. LONGTIME HOUSE AUTHOR: A magnificent new book--her twentieth--by a writer who has been published by Knopf over the course of her entire half-century career. Praise for Anne Tyler "Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place." --Newsday "The charm of an Anne Tyler novel lies in the clarity of her prose and the wisdom of her observations . . . Her characters endear themselves to the reader with their candor and their wit and their simple decency." --The Washington Post "Tyler's eye and ear for familial give and take is unerring, her humanity irresistible." --People About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Baltimore, Maryland ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is her twentieth novel; her eleventh, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Rights Territories: US and open market (no Canada) Return indicator: Full copies only Audio: Yes Book Club: Yes British: No Translation: No Restriction: US, Opn Mkt (no CAN) Agency: ONE30ONE AGENCY LLC Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles The Beginner's Goodbye/HC The Beginner's Goodbye/TR The Beginner's Goodbye/EL Noah's Compass/HC Noah's Compass/TR Comp Titles Week In Winter, A/Binchy, Maeve/HC Week In Winter, A/Binchy, Maeve/TR Week In Winter, A (Ebk)/Binchy, Maeve/EL ISBN 978-1-101-87428-8 ISBN 978-0-307-95727-6 978-0-345-53335-7 978-0-307-95822-8 978-0-307-27240-9 978-0-345-51659-6 ISBN 978-0-307-27357-4 978-0-307-47550-3 978-0-385-35008-2 OS 2/15 On sale 4/12 1/13 4/12 1/10 1/11 On sale 2/13 1/14 2/13 Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: No Special Markets: Agent: JESSECA SALKY Publisher Knopf Publisher Knopf Ballantine Books Ballantine Books Knopf Ballantine Books Publisher Knopf Anchor Anchor Price Price $24.95 $15.00 $11.99 $25.95 $15.00 Price $26.95 $14.95 $9.99 When the Doves Disappeared A novel Sofi Oksanen From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge--a chillingly suspenseful, deftly woven new novel that opens up a little-known yet still controversial chapter of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia during and after World War II. 1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men have deserted the Red Army--Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime... 1963: Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with Roland's, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the truth... In a masterfully told story that moves between the tumult of these two brutally repressive eras--a story of surveillance, deception, passion, and betrayal--Sofi Oksanen brings to life both the frailty, and the resilience, of humanity under the shadow of tyranny. ON SALE 2/10/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35017-4 $25.95 Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Historical BISAC 2: Fiction - War BISAC 3: Fiction - Family Saga Page Count: 304 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 35/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erinn B. Hartman Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Extra Galleys with color covers Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in Harper's Online Advertising Campaign, including the Litbreaker network, NYTimes.com, Salon, Facebook Online Marketing Campaign, including: Twitter advertising International reviews and profiles shared via Knopf's social media outlets Early letter from Sofi about the backstory of the novel, posted and shared online Reading Group Guide #1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER: The book went straight to #1 in Finland and Sweden. In Finland, it was the best-selling hardcover for the entire year of publication, with 150,000 copies in print. In both Finland and Estonia, the book sold at the same rate as Fifty Shades. The book is being published in twenty-nine countries around the world. PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR: Oksanen has received the prestigious Swedish Academy Nordic Prize (called the "little Nobel," as it's awarded by the same organization), the Prix Femina, the Budapest Grand Prize, the European Book Prize, and the Nordic Council Literature Prize. MOMENTUM: This follows Oksanen's breakout, widely acclaimed novel Purge, which was her first to be published in English. Purge was an IndieBound pick and a B&N Discover title, as well as the only novel to have won Finland's two most important literary awards. CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE: Estonia's years under Soviet control resonate particularly with the current tension between Russia and Ukraine. Oksanen has written a powerful op-ed on the subject, published in Europe. AUDIENCE: For the multitudes of fans of World War II fiction--Estonia remains mostly unexplored in the literature--and also for those who love stories of Soviet-era Eastern Europe (think, too, of the film The Lives of Others). STORY BEHIND THE TITLE: Estonians remember that all the doves suddenly disappeared from the cities in the '40s--because the German soldiers were capturing and eating them. A chilling foreshadowing of how long it took for peace to arrive. International reviews for When the Doves Disappeared "With her new novel, Sofi Oksanen demonstrates that she belongs in the premier league of literature . . . In many ways it can be said to have a kinship with the great Russian classics . . . The story also offers a lot of suspense and many surprising twists . . . What a unique literary talent she possesses." --Dagsavisen (Norway) About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Helsinki, Finland SOFI OKSANEN is a Finnish-Estonian novelist and playwright. She has received numerous prizes for her work, including the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, the Prix Femina, the Budapest Grand Prize, the European Book Prize, and the Nordic Council Literature Prize. She lives in Helsinki. Translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers. Rights Territories: US and open market (no Canada) Return indicator: Full copies only Audio: Yes Book Club: Yes British: No Translation: No Restriction: US, Opn Mkt (no CAN) Agency: SALOMONSSON AGENCY Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles Purge/Oksanen, Sofi/TR Original Comp Titles A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian… A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian… Atonement/McEwan, Ian/HC Atonement/McEwan, Ian/TR Atonement/McEwan, Ian/EL ISBN 978-0-385-35018-1 ISBN 9780802170774 ISBN 9781594200441 9780143036746 9780385503952 9780385721790 9781400075553 OS 2/15 On sale 04/10 On sale 04/05 03/06 3/02 2/03 5/03 Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: TOR JONASSON Publisher Knopf Publisher Grove Publisher Penguin Press Penguin Nan A Talese Anchor Anchor Price Price $14.95 Price $24.95 $14.00 $30.00 $15.95 $11.99 Satin Island A novel Tom McCarthy ON SALE 2/17/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-59395-5 $24.00 Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary BISAC 2: Fiction - Dystopian BISAC 3: Fiction - Visionary & Metaphysical Page Count: 192 Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4 Spine/Depth: 25/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erinn B. Hartman Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Print Features National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Extra Galleys Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in the London Review of Books and Harper's Online Advertising Campaign, including The Millions, Guernica, Litbreaker network, and Facebook From the author of Remainder (the major feature-film adaption of which will be released in 2015) and C (short-listed for the Booker Prize), and winner of the Windham Campbell Prize, a novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world--modern, postmodern, whatever world you think you are living in. When we first meet U., our narrator, he is waiting out a delay in the Turin airport. Clicking through corridors of trivia on his laptop he stumbles on information about the Shroud of Turin--and is struck by the degree to which our access to the truth is always mediated by a set of veils or screens, with any world built on those truths inherently unstable. A "corporate ethnographer," U. is tasked with writing the "Great Report," an ell-encompassing document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions. Madison, the woman he is seeing, is increasingly elusive, much like the particulars in the case of the recent parachutist's death with which U. is obsessed. Add to that his longstanding obsession with South Pacific cargo cults and his developing, inexplicable interest in oil spills. As he begins to wonder if the Great Report might remain a shapeless, oozing plasma, his senses are startled awake by a dream of an apocalyptic cityscape. In Satin Island, Tom McCarthy captures--as only he can-- the way we experience our world, our efforts to find meaning (or just to stay awake) and discern the narratives we think of as our lives. OPPORTUNITY: C was a tour de force of literary formalism. This time, McCarthy's fierce engagement with idea and theory is enveloped within an engaging contemporary narrative. ANTICIPATION: The originality of C and Remainder earned the attention of the most eminent literary gatekeepers. Satin Island will not disappoint them. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: London TOM McCARTHY was born in 1969 and lives in London. He is known in the art world for the reports, manifestos, and media interventions he has made as general secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde network. His previous books include Men in Space, C, Remainder, and Tintin and the Secret of Literature. 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Anonymous Soldiers The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Bruce Hoffman A landmark history of the battles between Jews, Arabs, and the British that led to the creation of Israel, based on newly available documents from the National Archives in Britain. Anonymous Soldiers brilliantly re-creates a crucial period in the establishment of Israel, chronicling three decades of growing anti-colonial unrest that culminated in the end of British rule and the UN resolution to create two separate states. Based on newly available documents, this groundbreaking book tells in riveting detail the story of how Britain, in the twilight of empire, struggled and ultimately failed to reconcile competing Arab and Jewish demands. Above all, Hoffman shows how the "anonymous soldiers" of Irgun and Lehi beat the British and set in motion the chain of events that resulted in Israel's creation. This is a towering accomplishment of research and narrative: one of the most detailed and sustained accounts of a terrorist and counterterrorist campaign ever written, which will be the definitive account of the struggle for Israel for years to come. ON SALE 2/24/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-59471-6 $35.00/$41.00 Can. Category: History BISAC 1: History - Middle East BISAC 2: History - Military - Strategy BISAC 3: Political Science - Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism Page Count: 640 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Carton Count: 12 Illustrations: 16PP OF PHOTOS; MAP; ENDPAPERS Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erica Hinsley Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features Coverage on history, military, and political sites and blogs Author Tour: New York and Washington, D.C. Extra Galleys Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in Foreign Affairs and The Jewish Review of Books Major Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, WSJ.com, BBC.com, WashPost.com, Jewish periodicals online, Hadassah, and Facebook AUTHORIAL STANDING: Hoffman is universally respected for his scholarship on terrorism, and will command the attention of journalists, government officials, military representatives, and general readers alike. This is in many respects his magnum opus, a book he has been preparing since he was in graduate school. REMARKABLY FAIR-MINDED: Hoffman does not take sides or moral stances, focusing instead on the respective effectiveness of the uprising and the British response. This is a book that can be appreciated no matter one's position on the complicated history and current politics of the Middle East. JEWISH COMMUNITY: The book will have major traction with and be especially meaningful to Jewish readers across America, for its commentary on the history and formation of the Israeli state. UNPRECEDENTED RESOURCES: Hoffman has made extensive use of the newly opened National Archives in Britain and documents pertaining to British rule of Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century, making this book uniquely and richly researched. "Terror works--at least sometimes--and there is no better proof than the success of the Israeli underground during the British Mandate in Palestine. In Anonymous Soldiers, Bruce Hoffman, the dean of counterterrorist scholars, explores the history and methods that would become the template for terrorist movements of the present day. This book will become a classic on the shelf of those who seek to understand and fight against nonstate actors, who were themselves inspired by the Israeli example." --Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower and Thirteen Days in September About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Washington, DC BRUCE HOFFMAN is the director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies and director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center. His previous books include Inside Terrorism (1998), and The Failure of British Military Strategy within Palestine, 1939--1947 (1983). 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The Buried Giant A novel Kazuo Ishiguro An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. "You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay . . ." The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war. ALMOST A DECADE: Never Let Me Go was published in 2006, and readers have been waiting for his next novel with bated breath ever since. AUTHOR: It goes without saying that Ishiguro is widely known beyond literary readers--or even avid readers. Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have been adapted into highly acclaimed films, The Remains of the Day starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins, Never Let Me Go starring Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, and Andrew Garfield. ON SALE 3/3/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-27103-7 $26.95 Praise for Kazuo Ishiguro "Remarkable . . . Strikingly original." --Lawrence Graver, The New York Times "A master craftsman." --Margaret Atwood, Slate "The best and most original writer of his generation." --Susan Hill, The Mail on Sunday About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: London, England Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary BISAC 2: Fiction - Fantasy - Historical BISAC 3: Fiction - Adventure Page Count: 320 Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 36/32 Carton Count: 12 Illustrations: 4C END PAPERS Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Kathryn Zuckerman Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Online interviews, reviews, and literary blog coverage 8-city Author Tour: Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Extra Galleys with color covers Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising Campaign, including The New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker Major Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes, NYorker.com, Paris Review, BBC.com, Salon.com, Fandango, IMDb, GoodReads, and Facebook Extensive Social Media Campaign, including contests through his Facebook page Quotegraphics Campaign through social media outlets Reading Group Guide Book Club Promotion through Vintage Reading Group Center Library Marketing Campaign, including advertising on Early Word.com and LibraryJournal.com Jacket Blowups Available Author Hometown: Nagasaki, Japan KAZUO ISHIGURO's seven previous books have won him wide renown and numerous honors. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have more than 1,000,000 copies in print across platforms, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. 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Set in McGuane's accustomed Big Sky country, with its mesmeric powers, these stories attest to the generous compass of his fellow feeling, as well as to his unique way with words and the comic genius that has inspired comparison with Mark Twain and Ring Lardner. The ties of family make for uncomfortable binds: A devoted son is horrified to discover his mother's antics before she slipped into dementia. A father's outdoor skills are no match for an ominous change in the weather. But complications arise equally in the absence of blood, as when life-long friends on a fishing trip finally confront their dislike for each other. Or when a gifted cattle inseminator succumbs to the lure of a stranger's offer of easy money. McGuane is as witty and large-hearted as we have ever known him -- a jubilant, thunderous confirmation of his status as modern master. ON SALE 3/3/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35019-8 $25.95/$30.00 Can. Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Short Stories (single author) BISAC 2: Fiction - Family Life BISAC 3: Fiction - Humorous Page Count: 288 Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4 Spine/Depth: 36/32 Carton Count: 12 AUTHOR: With frequent appearances in The New Yorker, Thomas McGuane has become since his last collection an even more essential figure in American fiction. Sure to be as widely reviewed as ever. SALES: A solid history, with 30,000 units combined in all formats for Gallatin Canyon. SEVEN ENTIRELY NEW STORIES: seventeen stories in total, and ten previously published in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and Granta. List of Stories: Weight Watchers (published in The New Yorker) Motherlode The Good Samaritan (published in The New Yorker) Stars (published in The New Yorker) On a Dirt Road River Camp (published in McSweeney's) Prairie Girl (published in The New Yorker) Grandma and Me Hubcaps (published in The New Yorker) Shaman The House on Sand Creek (published in The New Yorker) An Old Man Who Liked to Fish The Casserole (published in The New Yorker) A Long View to the West (published in The New Yorker as "Crossing") Lake Story Canyon Ferry Crow Fair (published in Granta) Acclaim for Gallatin Canyon "Astonishing." --The New York Times Book Review "McGuane is a master . . . You can't force this kind of writing." --Los Angeles Times Marketing and Publicity About the Author/Illustrator Publicist: Gabrielle Brooks Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features Men's Magazine and Blog Coverage National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Author Tour, including Denver, Los Angeles, Montana, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Extra Galleys Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising, including Bookforum and Harper's Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, NYorker.com, USAToday.com, Slate, and Facebook Regional Galley mailings to Booksellers Jacket Blowups Available Author Residence: McLeod, Montana Author Hometown: Wyandotte, Michigan THOMAS MCGUANE lives on a ranch in McLeod, Montana. He is the author of nine novels, three works of nonfiction, and two other collections of stories, Gallatin Canyon and To Skin a Cat. 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Elegy for a Broken Machine Poems Patrick Phillips The poet Patrick Phillips joins our list with a stunning collection of elegies that bear witness to the small beauties and inevitable losses of our transient life. Elegy for a Broken Machine is a son's lament for his father. It takes us from the luminous world of childhood to the fluorescent glare of operating rooms and recovery wards, and into the twilight lives of those who must go on. In one poem Phillips watches his sons play "Mercy" just as he did with his brother: hands laced, the stronger pushing the other back until he grunts for mercy "a game we played / so many times / I finally taught my sons, / not knowing what it was, / until too late, / I'd done." Phillips documents the unsung joys of midlife, the betrayals of the human body, and his realization that as the crowd of ghosts grows, we take our places, next in line. The result is a twenty-first-century memento mori, fashioned not just from loss but also from praise, and a fierce love for the world in all its ruined splendor. Praise for Patrick Phillips's previous collections ON SALE 3/3/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35375-5 $26.00/$31.00 Can. Category: Poetry BISAC 1: Poetry - Single Author - American BISAC 2: Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Family BISAC 3: Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss Page Count: 80 Trim Size: 5-7/8 x 8-3/8 Spine/Depth: 15/32 Carton Count: 12 "For me this is a real discovery . . . the language is quiet and accurate, the details precise, and the emotions--though never insisted upon--are there, unquestionable and complex . . . The art here is in hiding the art, and [Phillips] is the rare poet with the tact and chops to accomplish that . . . What a find!" --Philip Levine, Ploughshares "Mesmerizing and moving . . . Opening new ground as fatherhood claims his attention, the poet continues to freshen his already profound gifts." --Floyd Skloot, Harvard Review About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Brooklyn, NY Author Hometown: Atlanta, GA PATRICK PHILLIPS is the author of two poetry collections, Boy and Chattahoochee, which won the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His honors include both Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Discovery / The Nation Prize from the 92nd Street Y, and the Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Drew University. Rights Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Brittany Morrongiello Territories: Audio: British: Restriction: World Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles Boy/TR Chattahoochee: Poems/TR Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Translation: Agency: ISBN 978-0-385-35376-2 ISBN 9780820331195 9781557287755 OS 3/15 On sale 03/08 07/04 Reprint: 1st Serial: Special Markets: Agent: Publisher Knopf Publisher U. of Georgia Press U. of Arkansas Press Price Price $17.95 $16.95 Follies of God Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog James Grissom ON SALE 3/3/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-26569-2 $30.00/$35.00 Can. Category: Biography BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography Entertainment & Performing Arts BISAC 2: Performing Arts - Theater - Playwriting BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Literary Page Count: 416 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 45/32 Carton Count: 12 Illustrations: 48 PHOTOGRAPHS IN TEXT Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Kathryn Zuckerman Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Film and Theater Press 3-city Author Tour: Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York National Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books Online Advertising Campaign, on NYTimes.com, Playbill.com, and Facebook Promotion on Follies of God Facebook page Grissom's research (interviews, etc.) for social media promotion (quote graphics) Pinterest Board Promotion at Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans in March An extraordinary book that masterfully illuminates the dreamlike writing world of Tennessee Williams, revealing the heart and soul of artistic inspiration and the unwitting collaboration between playwright and actor, playwright and director. At a moment in Tennessee Williams' life when he felt he had been relegated to a "lower artery of the theatrical heart," when critics were proclaiming his work overrated, he summoned to New Orleans a young twenty-year-old hopeful writer, James Grissom, who had written an unsolicited letter to the great playwright asking for advice. After long, intense conversation, Williams sent Grissom on a journey on his behalf to find out if he, Williams, or his work, had ever mattered to those who had so deeply mattered to him, those who had kept him going to face another day, another judgment. Among the more than seventy women and men with whom Grissom talked, giants of the American theater and film: Lillian Gish, (she was "the escort who brought me to Blanche") . . . Maureen Stapleton, Serafina of The Rose Tattoo . . . Jessica Tandy, the original Blanche DuBois on Broadway . . . Eva Le Gallienne ("She was a stone," said Williams, "against which I could rub my talent and feel that it became sharper") . . . Julie Harris . . . Geraldine Page, Alma of Summer and Smoke . . . Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud . . . The most revealing, illuminating portrait to date of Tennessee Williams, who remains one of the seminal American playwrights of our time. To write this long-awaited book--more than two decades in work--the author spent many hours deep in conversation with Williams and interviewed many, among them: Judith Anderson, Anne Bancroft, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn, Zoe Caldwell, Bette Davis, John Guare, Kim Hunter, Deborah Kerr, Stanley Kubrick, Sidney Lumet, Patricia Neal, Paul Newman, Harold Pinter, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Joanne Woodward. The author is well connected in acting and media circles (he has written for television: The Good Wife, Murder One, Law & Order, Sex and the City among others); quotes will be forthcoming. Will be featured at Tennessee Williams Festivals (New Orleans; Clarksdale, Mississippi; Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival) as well as film festivals (Film Forum, TCM, etc). About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: New York, NY Author Hometown: Baton Rouge, LA JAMES GRISSOM studied at Louisiana State University and the University of Pennsylvania. He has written for HBO, Showtime, CBS, and NBC. He lives in New York. Rights Territories: US, Canada, open market Audio: No British: No Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: DONADIO & OLSON INC Other Editions E-book Comp Titles Tennessee Wiliams: Mad Pilgrimage of the… E. E. Cummings/Cheever, Susan/HC The World of Tennessee Williams/Richard… Tennesee Williams in Provincetown/David… Memoirs/ Tennessee Williams Notebooks/Tennessee Williams/HC Memoirs/Williams, Tennessee/TR Tom/Lyle Leverich/HC ISBN 978-1-101-87465-3 ISBN 9780393021240 978-0-307-37997-9 9781601820006 9781601824219 9780811216692 9780300116823 9780385517560 9780340649770 OS 3/15 On sale 09/14 2/14 03/11 08/10 10/06 01/07 03/95 04/95 Publisher Knopf Publisher Norton Pantheon Hansen Hansen New Directions Yale U. Press DDay Gen Adult Hodder Stoughton Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: EDWARD HIBBERT Price Price $39.95 $26.95/$32.00 Can. $14.95 $14.95 $18.95 $40.00 $19.00 Roosevelt and Stalin Portrait of a Partnership Susan Butler ON SALE 3/3/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-59485-3 $35.00/$41.00 Can. Category: History BISAC 1: History - Modern - 20th Century BISAC 2: History - Military - World War II BISAC 3: History - Europe - Russia & The Former Soviet Union Page Count: 608 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Carton Count: 12 Illustrations: 28 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erinn McGrath Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns National Print Features Coverage on History, Military, and Political Sites and Blogs National Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books and Foreign Affairs Online Advertising Campaign, targeting news, politics, and history sites, including NYTimes.com, WSJ.com, WashingtonPost.com, Guardian (U.S. readers) History.net, Life.time.com, Brittanica.com The first book to fully explore the complex partnership during World War II between FDR and Stalin, by the editor of My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin were more than allies of convenience during the war. They were partners who shared the same outlook for the postwar world and formed an uneasy but deep friendship. Making use of previously classified materials, Susan Butler reassesses in-depth the relationship between these two men who shaped the world's political stage from World War II to the decades leading up to and into the new century. She tells the story of how the leaders of the capitalist and Communist worlds joined forces to defeat Hitler and illuminates the real alliance the two men forged. She reveals their modus operandi; what they knew and thought about each other; and how, by the time of Roosevelt's death in April, 1945, they had come to a meeting of minds, agreeing on a world organization to prevent war, on the evils of colonialism, on the presumption that Germany had to be dealt with as a future, as well as present, threat that could never again be allowed to menace civilization--and on their respective goal: to fashion a world without war for at least a generation. The critical success of Butler's My Dear Mr. Stalin, the first book that brought together the complete correspondence of FDR and Stalin. The first book to exclusively examine the relationship between the two leaders and to offer insights into the profound bond between them using newly unclassified files from the Russian State Archive of Sociol and Political History and Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation as well as the FDR Library, Library of Congress, Cold War International History Project, and Harvard Houghton Library. Butler's is the first book to show just how FDR methodically and successfully pushed Stalin to reinstate religion in the Soviet Union, which he did in 1943. Butler reveals for the first time J. Edgar Hoover's power to influence FDR and shows how Hoover derailed the U.S. planned establishment of OSS intelligence officials in Russia and Russian intelligence officials in America just before the November 1944 election. The first book to reveal FDR's conversations with Secretary of War Henry Stimson on the atom bomb, making clear that FDR was preparing to discuss nuclear fission with Stalin. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Lake Wales, FL SUSAN BUTLER grew up in New York and received her MA from Columbia University. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times and Barron's. She lives in Lake Wales, Florida. Rights Territories: US, Canada, open market Audio: Yes British: No Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: FREDRICA S. FRIEDMAN AND CO., Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles My Dear Mr. Stalin / Susan Butler / HC My Dear Mr. Stalin / Susan Butler / TR East to the Dawn / Susan Butler / HC East to the Dawn / Susan Butler / TR Comp Titles Stalin/Montefiore, Simon Sebag/HC Fdr/Smith, Jean Edward/HC ISBN 978-1-101-87462-2 ISBN 9782952633000 9780300125924 9780201311440 9780306818370 ISBN 978-1-4000-4230-2 978-1-4000-6121-1 OS 3/15 On sale 01/2006 01/2008 10/1997 08/2009 On sale 4/04 5/07 Publisher Knopf Publisher Yale U. Press Yale U. Press Da Capo Press De Capo Press Publisher Knopf Random House Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: Price Price $22.00 $15.95 Price $30.00 $35.00/$44.00 Can. Stay, Illusion Poems Lucie Brock-Broido The much anticipated volume of poems from acclaimed poet Lucie Brock-Broido--a pioneering collection that brings her work, and our understanding of the broken but beautiful world she inhabits, to a whole new level. In these stirring, long-lined poems, we meet a poet as gifted and dangerous as ever, a poet with an unflinching, ironic, and unique vision. As Brock-Broido puts it, she has, by now, "contracted the habit of believing in the interior world." Yet, despite the plaintive siren call of that interior, this most restless and powerful of American poets asserts: "I am of a fine mind to worship the visible world, the woo and pitch and sign of it." And in this collection, she does just that, striking out through gorgeous vistas of the seeable and knowable, drawing us into a stunning new way of perceiving, both haunting and playful, where we experience fresh understandings of our great loves and our great foolishness, and the often invisible ways these things might move us, in the end, to "still have plenty heart." ON SALE 3/3/2015 KNOPF TRADE PAPERBACK Stay, Illusion was a finalist for the NBA and the NBCC awards Praise for Lucie Brock-Broido's Trouble in Mind 978-0-307-96203-4 $17.00/$20.00 Can. Category: Poetry BISAC 1: Poetry - Single Author - American BISAC 2: Poetry - Women Authors BISAC 3: Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss Page Count: 112 Trim Size: 7 x 9 Spine/Depth: 11/32 Carton Count: 24 Marketing and Publicity "Brock-Broido's best yet. This is a poet who cultivates elegant nerviness and a riveting poetic clairvoyance, daring the soul to push deeper and deeper into unwrit dimensions . . . Gorgeous." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "She has begun to write what Stevens called 'the poem of the mind in the act of finding what will suffice.' No reality, that is, without imagination." --The New York Times Book Review "A jumpy, brooding, highly charged poetry . . . Brock-Broido leaves our cramped imaginations divinely readjusted." --Boston Review About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: New York, NY and Cambridge, MA LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO is the author of three previous collections of poetry, A Hunger, The Master Letters, and Trouble in Mind. She is Director of Poetry in the School of the Arts at Columbia University and has been the recipient of awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City and in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 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I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son Kent Russell ON SALE 3/10/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35230-7 $24.95/$28.95 Can. Category: Essays BISAC 1: Literary Collections - Essays BISAC 2: Literary Collections - American - General BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs Page Count: 288 Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-3/8 Spine/Depth: 34/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Jessica Purcell Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle National Print Features National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Sports Press Men's Magazine and Blog Coverage Author Tour, including Miami and New York Extra Galleys with color covers Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in New York Magazine Online Advertising Campaign, including the Millions, Litbreaker network, NYTimes and NYorker mobile New York Comic Con promotion Advertising and Promotion on Facebook Early Scribd excerpt Inclusion in Borzoi Reader e-Newsletter From one of the most ferociously brilliant young voices in literary non fiction: a debut of extraordinary force that interrogates a particular paradigm of American masculinity, capturing with discomforting intimacy and precision the landscape of the misfit. Kent Russell's essays take us to society's ragged edges, the junctures between savagery and civilization, where solitary, philosophical, troubled men yearn for a more heightened form of existence. We meet a self-immunizer in small-town Wisconsin who has conditioned his body to withstand the bites of the most venomous snakes; NHL enforcers who build their careers on violence and intimidation; a former mogul who has retreated to a crocodile-infested island off the Australian coast; the fans at a three-day music festival ominously called the Gathering; Amish baseball players who push the limits of their cultural restraints; and, perhaps most memorably, Russell's own oddball, inimitable forebears. I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son, at once blistering and deeply personal, records Russell's quest to understand, through his journalistic subjects, his own appetites and urges, his childhood demons and persistent alienation, and, above all, his knotty, volatile, vital relationship with his father. Combining the fierce intellect and humane wit of John Jeremiah Sullivan and David Foster Wallace with a dark, unfettered sensibility all his own, Russell gives us a haunting and unforgettable portrait of America. COMPS: The extraordinary recent success of The Empathy Exams and Pulphead testify to the appetite for voice driven long-form narrative non fiction. Like Empathy and Pulphead, Russell's subjects are wide-ranging and various, linked by a quest for self-discovery that provides a deep emotional and psychological underside to his intellectual proclivities and preoccupations. VOICE:Russell writes with a force that feels nearly explosive; his prose teems with the hyper connective, barely controlled genius of early David Foster Wallace or Dave Eggers, paired with the gonzo risk-taking and off-the-grid sense of mission of a young Hunter S. Thompson. DEBUT:Kent Russell is 28 and I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son heralds the arrival of a singular new talent. REACH: Collection includes seven essays previously published or forthcoming in n+1, The Believer, Tin House, and The New Republic, plus brand-new autobiographical interstitial material TITLE: The book's title is from Daniel Boone: "I did not hear your name when they were beating up for volunteers . . . I am sorry to think I have raised a timid son." Boone ended up burying that son following the 1782 Battle of the Blue Licks. KAREN RUSSELL: Kent Russell is Karen Russell's younger brother, and she is eager to help promote the book and support Kent in any way possible. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Brooklyn, NY Author Hometown: Miami, FL KENT RUSSELL's essays have appeared in The New Republic, Harper's, GQ, n+1, The Believer, and Grantland. Rights Territories: US, Canada, open market (no Europe) Audio: Yes British: No Restriction: US,CAN,OpnMkt(no EU) Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: STERLING LORD LITERISTIC INC Other Editions E-book Comp Titles More Curious/Wilsey, Sean/HC The Empathy Exams/Jamison, Leslie/TR Pulphead/Sullivan, John Jeremiah/TR Oh the Glory of it All/Wilsey, Sean/HC The Disappointment Artist/Lethem, Jonath… ISBN 978-0-385-35231-4 ISBN 9781940450179 9781555976712 9780374532901 9781594200519 978-0-385-51217-6 OS 3/15 On sale 7/14 4/14 10/11 5/05 3/05 Publisher Knopf Publisher McSweeney's Graywolf Press FSG Penguin Press DDay Gen Adult Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: JIM RUTMAN Price Price $22.00 $15.00 $16.00 $22.95/$32.95 Can. The Tusk That Did the Damage A novel Tania James ON SALE 3/10/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35412-7 $24.95/$28.95 Can. Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary BISAC 2: Fiction - Adventure BISAC 3: Fiction - Cultural Heritage Page Count: 240 Trim Size: 5 x 7-1/4 Spine/Depth: 29/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Brittany Morrongiello Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns National Print Features Women's Magazine and Blog Coverage National Online: Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage 3-city Author Tour: Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. Extra Galleys with color covers National Print Advertising in New York Magazine Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes, Salon, GoodReads, and Facebook Scribd excerpt and Facebook campaign, plus Goodreads and Shelf Awareness giveaways Literary Blog Tour Reading Group Guide and reading group promotion From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes, a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade through the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a feat of audacious imagination, an infamous elephant known as the Gravedigger. Orphaned by poachers as a calf and sold into a life of labor and exhibition, the Gravedigger breaks free of his chains and begins terrorizing the countryside, earning his name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries. Manu, the studious younger son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger's violence and is drawn, with his wayward brother Jayan, into the sordid, alluring world of poaching. Emma is a young American working on a documentary with her college best friend, who witnesses the porous boundary between conservation and corruption and finds herself in her own moral gray area, a risky affair with the veterinarian who is the film's subject. As the novel hurtles toward its tragic climax, these three storylines fuse into a wrenching meditation on love and betrayal, fact and myth, duty and sacrifice. With lyricism and suspense, Tania James animates the rural landscapes where Western idealism clashes with local reality; where a farmer's livelihood can be destroyed by a rampaging elephant; where men are driven to poaching by extreme poverty; where elephants are seen as both god and menace. In James's arrestingly beautiful prose, The Tusk That Did the Damage tells a wholly original and unforgettable story about our relationship with an animal that has mesmerized us for centuries. EARLY ENDORSEMENTS:"The Tusk That Did the Damage is a novel of great moral intensity, with the pacing of a thriller. Everyone is implicated. Everyone is righteous. Tania James's gift, her genius, is to turn this scenario into an occasion for grace." --Julie Otsuka; " The Tusk That Did the Damage is one of the most unusual and affecting books I've read in a long time. Narrated by a poacher, a filmmaker, and, most brilliantly, an elephant, this is a compulsively readable, devastating novel." --Jonathan Safran Foer BREAKOUT BOOK:Extraordinarily ambitious, with the weight of myth yet the immediacy and structure of an absolutely modern novel, this is an outstanding departure and the best work yet from the prodigiously gifted James. ARRESTING SUBJECT AND TITLE: In a feat of bravura invention, Tania James has elected to narrate a key section of the novel from the point of view of a legendary elephant, a creature whose transformation from gentle calf to brutal killer is rendered with astonishing complexity. In the novel's unforgettable centerpiece, a young boy who steals the tusk of an elephant brings a curse down on his village, and begins a grotesque personal metamorphosis reminiscent of Kafka and Ovid. James's narrative artistry is reflected in every dimension of this stunning novel, and her subject and title provide a unique publicity angle. AUTHOR: Tania is as dazzling in person as she is on the page, poised and beautiful, an excellent promoter. INTERNATIONAL EVENT: Auctions currently under way all over the world. More on this to follow. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Washington, DC Author Hometown: Louisville, KY TANIA JAMES is the author of the novel Atlas of Unknowns and the short story collection Aerogrammes. Her fiction has appeared in Boston Review, Granta, Guernica, One Story, A Public Space, and The Kenyon Review. She lives in Washington, DC. Rights Territories: US, Canada, open market Audio: Yes British: No Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: ARAGI, INC. 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Price $26.00/$31.00 Can. $28.00 The Beauty Poems Jane Hirshfield A stunning new collection of verse, paired with the publication of Ten Windows, the author's new collection of essays, becomes a literary occasion for spring and Poetry Month. This new collection opens with a series of "My" poems--"My Skeleton," "My Corkboard," "My Species," "My Weather"--in which Hirshfield uses the familiar materials of the self to explore the profundities and quirks of existence. Of her memory, she writes, "Like the small soaps and shampoos / a traveler brings home/ then won't use, / you, memory, / almost weightless / this morning inside me." She reflects on the advice someone older long ago gave her--to avoid life's "or"s--and she concludes, "Now I too am sixty. / There was no other life." This robust sense of inevitability, and the poet's tender consciousness of the unjudging "beauty" of what just exists, make the poems powerfully affecting. For Hirshfield, "Zero Plus Anything Is A World," as she entitles one poem, and her recipes for that world ("add salt to hunger," "add time to trees") are doors through which we enter into a higher understanding of ourselves and of the small beauties we so often miss. ON SALE 3/17/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35107-2 $26.00/$31.00 Can. Category: Poetry BISAC 1: Poetry - Single Author - American BISAC 2: Poetry - Women Authors BISAC 3: Poetry - Inspirational & Religious Page Count: 112 Trim Size: 6 x 9 Spine/Depth: 18/32 Carton Count: 12 JANE'S PROFILE: there is almost no other poet like Jane in terms of audience reach, and the ability she has to bring out crowds and reach her readers. TWO-BOOK OCCASION: the event created by Jane's book of essays being published simultaneously will make this spring perfect for tour events and big reviews of her career to date. Praise for Come, Thief "A deep well full of strength and wisdom." --Dana Jennings, The New York Times "In these clear-eyed and often luminous poems she has borrowed a page from the great Tang Dynasty Masters and fused style and philosophical outlook into a fresh way of representing experience." --Steven Ratiner, The Washington Post "Come, Thief is as much the accomplishment of a life in poetry as it is of a life given to inner investigation of what it means to be a human being." --Afaa M. Weaver, Orion About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Mill Valley, CA Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Josefine Kals National Print Features Poetry Press National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Author Tour, including Nashville, New York, and San Francisco JANE HIRSHFIELD is the author of seven previous collections of poetry, two books of essays, and four books collecting and co-translating the work of poets from the past. A current chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Hirshfield has received many prizes and awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Book Award, the Poetry Center Book Award, and finalist selection for the National Book Critics Circle Award and England's T.S. Eliot Prize. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, The New Republic, Harper's, Orion, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Slate, McSweeney's, and seven editions of The Best American Poetry. She has been featured in two Bill Moyers PBS television specials and her work appears frequently on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac and other public radio programs. Rights Territories: World Audio: No British: Yes Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: Yes Agency: MICHAEL KATZ Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles Come, Thief/Hirshfield, Jane/HC Come, Thief/Hirshfield, Jane/TR Come, Thief (Ebk)/Hirshfield, Jane/EL Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry,… Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry/… The Ink Dark Moon/Hirshfield, Jane/TR ISBN 978-0-385-35108-9 ISBN 978-0-307-59542-3 978-0-375-71207-4 978-0-307-59944-5 9780060174569 9780060929480 9780679729587 OS 3/15 On sale 8/11 2/13 8/11 08/97 08/98 10/90 Publisher Knopf Publisher Knopf Knopf Knopf HarperCollins HarperCollins Vintage Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: No Special Markets: Agent: MICHAEL KATZ Price Price $25.00/$28.95 Can. $16.00/$19.00 Can. $13.99/$13.99 Can. $13.99 $16.00/$19.00 Can. Ten Windows How Great Poems Transform the World Jane Hirshfield A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and popular essayist. Jane Hirshfield offers ten lively and eminently readable explorations into how great poems transform our experience of the world. Touching on everything from the concept of "windows" in poems (the moments where a word, phrase, or shift in tone "opens" something for the reader) to the mechanisms of surprise and uncertainty, Jane uses particular poems (by Basho, Dickinson, Szymoborska, Gilbert, Cavafy and Creeley, to name a few) to show us how poetry works, word by charged word. Most of all, she captures the ways in which poems make something possible that is separate from and beyond our daily reality ("[Poetry's] seeing is not our usual seeing, its hearing is not our usual hearing"). Locating the border realm between inner and outer, what is known and what can only be apprehended in the realm of verse, Hirshfield's lucid understanding is gripping and transformative itself, showing us at every turn how poems restore us to and expand our sense of a broader humanity. ON SALE 3/17/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35105-8 $24.95/$28.95 Can. Category: Essays BISAC 1: Literary Collections - Essays BISAC 2: Literary Criticism - Poetry BISAC 3: Literary Criticism & Collections - Books & Reading Page Count: 320 Trim Size: 5 x 7-1/2 Spine/Depth: 34/32 Carton Count: 12 Illustrations: 10 PHOTOGRAPHS IN TEXT Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Josefine Kals Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns National Print Features Poetry Press National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Author Tour, including Nashville, New York, and San Francisco Online Advertising on PW.org, Poetry Daily, and Facebook Jane's popularity/accessible voice as poet and essayist: The chapter on haiku in this volume was a Kindle single that remained on the Amazon best seller list for many weeks. Nine Gates, her previous essay volume, is still in print and selling seventeen years on. Promoting bonanza with a poetry collection at the same time: Jane has done this in the past, going on the road with both poems and essays. She will be busy on the lecture circuit during the spring and into the fall. Praise for Nine Gates from Robert Pinsky: "Jane Hirshfield [approaches] the mysteries of art in a way that feels exactly right to me: plainly, reverently, intelligently. She gives due weight to both past masters and her own intuition. The result is rare and fine: a collection of essays combining the richness of a daybook with the pointed quality of a good lecture." About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Mill Valley, CA JANE HIRSHFIELD is the author of eight books of poetry and one previous, now-classic collection of essays, and four books collecting and co-translating the work of poets from the past. A current chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, hHirshfield has received many prizes and awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Book Award, the Poetry Center Book Award, and finalist selection for the National Book Critics Circle Award and England's T.S. Eliot Prize. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, The New Republic, Harper's, Orion, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Slate, McSweeney's, and seven editions of The Best American Poetry. She has been featured in two Bill Moyers PBS television specials, and her work appears frequently on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac and other public radio programs. Rights Territories: World Audio: No British: Yes Restriction: World Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: Yes Agency: MICHAEL KATZ Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles Come, Thief/Hirshfield, Jane/HC Come, Thief/Hirshfield, Jane/TR Come, Thief (Ebk)/Hirshfield, Jane/EL Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry… Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry,… The Ink Dark Moon/Hirshfield, Jane/TR Comp Titles How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love Wit… ISBN 978-0-385-35106-5 ISBN 978-0-307-59542-3 978-0-375-71207-4 978-0-307-59944-5 9780060174569 9780060929480 9780679729587 ISBN 9780151004195 OS 3/15 On sale 8/11 2/13 8/11 8/97 8/98 10/90 On sale 3/99 Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: No Special Markets: Agent: MICHAEL KATZ Publisher Knopf Publisher Knopf Knopf Knopf Price Harper Collins Vintage Publisher Harcourt $13.99 $16.00/$19.00 Can. Price Price $25.00/$28.95 Can. $16.00/$19.00 Can. $13.99/$13.99 Can. Notes from a Dead House Fyodor Dostoevsky ON SALE 3/24/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-95959-1 $26.95/$32.00 Can. Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Classics BISAC 2: Literary Collections - Russian & Former Soviet Union BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Literary Page Count: 336 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 41/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Kathryn Zuckerman Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns National Print Features National Online interviews, reviews, and literary blog coverage Select Author Appearances Online Advertising and Marketing Campaign, including NYTimes.com, Salon.com, GoodReads, and Facebook From the renowned translators: a new translation--certain to become the definitive version--of the first great prison memoir, a fictionalized account of the writer's life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. Sentenced to death for advocating socialism in 1849, Dostoevsky served a commuted sentence of four years of hard labor. The account he wrote afterward (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead) is filled with vivid details of brutal punishments, shocking conditions, and the psychological effects of the loss of freedom and hope, but also of the feuds and betrayals, the moments of comedy, and the acts of kindness he observed. As a nobleman and a political prisoner, Dostoevsky was despised by most of his fellow convicts, and his first-person narrator--a nobleman who has killed his wife--experiences a similar struggle to adapt. He also undergoes a transformation over the course of his ordeal, as he discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. Notes from a Dead House reveals the prison as a tragedy both for the inmates and for Russia. It endures as a monumental meditation on freedom. ACCLAIMED TRANSLATORS: Pevear and Volokhonsky are in a class of their own: winners of the PEN translation prize; anointed by Oprah, who made their Anna Karenina a million-copy seller; clear victors among the competing War and Peace translations. Net sales of their Vintage translations exceed 800,000. FIRST PRISON MEMOIR: The very first account of life inside the Russian penal system, Dostoevsky's hybrid novel-memoir not only made him famous but also inaugurated a significant literary tradition. DOSTOEVSKY'S REAWAKENING: The author's imprisonment was a transformative experience, one that profoundly influenced all his later works, particularly Crime and Punishment. Praise for Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky "The English-speaking world is indebted to these two magnificent translators." --The New York Review of Books "The premier Russian-to-English translators of the era." --The New Yorker "The reinventors of the classic Russian novel for our times." --PEN/Book of the Month Translation Prize Citation About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Paris (translators) Together, RICHARD PEVEAR and LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY have translated works by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov, Leskov, and Pasternak. They were twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina), and their translation of Dostoevsky's Demons was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France. 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Price $10.95 $4.50 $12.00 Butter Baked Goods Nostalgic Recipes From a Little Neighborhood Bakery Rosie Daykin ON SALE 3/31/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-1-101-87508-7 $29.95 Category: Cookbooks BISAC 1: Cooking - Baking BISAC 2: Cooking - Confectionery BISAC 3: Cooking - Desserts Page Count: 272 Trim Size: 8 x 10 Carton Count: 12 Illustrations: 200 4-C PHOTOGRAPHS IN TEXT Marketing and Publicity National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Food Press Coverage on Baking and Dessert Blogs Online Marketing Campaign, including NYTimes, food sites: Epicurious, etc., mommy blogs, and Facebook 101 recipes for homemade treats and childhood favorites, the way your mom used to make. Chapters include, Muffins, Scones, Cinny Buns and Loaves; Cookies, Bars and Slices; Cakes, Cupcakes and Whoopie Pies; Pastry, Pies and Tarts; Confections; Butter Creams and Frostings Butter Baked Goods is a gorgeously illustrated cookbook, packed full of delicious recipes for irresistible confections that you will want to make, time and time again. These are recipes for the classics, rich in the nostalgic flavors of your childhood: from Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies, Cinny Buns and S'mores to Classic Chocolate Cake, Lemon Meringue Cupcakes and Good Ol' Apple Pie. Butter began as a tiny bakery in Vancouver, opened and operated by Rosie Daykin, a passionate home baker since she was six years old. The bakery is a pink-and-pistachio-colored slice of heaven; its counters are piled high with glass cases and cake stands filled with sugary treats. Word soon got out (the baking was too good to keep quiet!) and Butter is now famous across North America for being the home of the very best gourmet marshmallow. Butter's marshmallows are now stocked in more than 300 (and counting) stores across Canada and the United States. The recipe for Rosie's famous marshmallows is just one of the 101 tucked into the pages of this beautiful book. Every recipe in Butter Baked Goods has simple step-by-step instructions and is written in an accessible and easy-to-follow style, so that everyone can create Butter's delectable treats--from grandmothers who have been baking all their lives to teenagers making their very first cupcakes. Rosie's baking is not about trickery, flamboyance, or hard-to-find ingredients but about great-tasting, homemade treats to celebrate life's milestones: birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, baby showers, bridal showers, or just a gloomy, rainy afternoon when you need a little pick-me-up. BUTTER BAKED GOODS SOLD ACROSS NORTH AMERICA: in more than 300 gourmet grocery stores and high-end retailers (Dean and Deluca, Whole Foods, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Sur La Table) BEAUTIFUL PACKAGE: with deluxe ribbon, wraparound photographic jacket and packed with full-color photography from award-winning photographer Janis Nicolay MEDIA-FRIENDLY AUTHOR: with multicity tour confirmed and phenomenal prepublication support NOSTALIC HOME BAKING AT ITS BEST: this is the perfect book for every home baker, and a fantastic addition to your cookbook collection About the Author/Illustrator ROSIE DAYKIN is the owner of Butter Baked Goods. Rosie was a successful interior designer, who dreamed of opening a bakery since she was a little girl. Rosie is a passionate home baker, who transformed her favorite hobby into a phenomenal success story. Rosie lives in Vancouver, with her husband and daughter. Rights Territories: Audio: British: Restriction: US Only Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Translation: Agency: THE COOKE AGENCY INTERNATIONAL Comp Titles The Art Of French Pastry/Pfeiffer, Jacqu… Bouchon Bakery/Keller, Thomas/ HC Baking/Peterson, James/HC ISBN 978-0-307-95935-5 9781579654351 978-1-58008-991-3 On sale 12/13 10/12 9/09 Publisher Knopf Artisan Ten Speed Press Reprint: 1st Serial: Special Markets: Agent: SUZANNE BRANDRETH Price $40.00/$46.00 Can. $50.00 $40.00/$49.00 Can. Made in Detroit Poems Marge Piercy ON SALE 3/31/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35388-5 $27.95/$32.00 Can. Category: Poetry BISAC 1: Poetry - Single Author - American BISAC 2: Poetry - Women Authors BISAC 3: Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Nature Page Count: 192 Trim Size: 5-3/8 x 8-3/8 Spine/Depth: 27/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Brittany Morrongiello National Print Features Poetry Press National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Select Author Appearances A treasure trove of new work from one of our most popular poets: poems that range from the Detroit of her childhood to her current life on Cape Cod, from deep appreciations of the natural world to elegies for lost friends and fellow poets. In her trademark style combining the sublime with gritty reality, Marge Piercy describes the night she was born: "the sky burned red /over Detroit and sirens sharpened their knives. / The elms made tents of solace over grimy / streets and alley cats purred me to sleep." She writes in graphic, unflinching language about the poor, banished now by politicians, no longer "real people like corporations." There are elegies for her peer group of poets, gone now, whose work she cherishes but from whom she cannot help but want more. There are laments for the suicide of dolphins and for her beloved cats, as she remembers "exactly how I loved each." She continues to celebrate Jewish holidays in compellingly original ways, and sings the praises of her marriage and the small pleasures of life. A stunning collection in the best Piercy tradition. AUTHOR: Over time, one of our best selling poets. She's still doing rounds of readings, where she sells both her new and backlist books. PROVEN POPULAR THEMES: Growing up poor in Detroit; her love of the natural world; her wholehearted embrace of leftist causes, both human and environmental; her feminism; her marital happiness; her personal involvement with Judaism. A LONG, LARGE CAREER: This is her nineteenth book of poems, and she's moving toward the end of her career. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Cape Cod, MA Author Hometown: Detroit, MI MARGE PIERCY is the author of eighteen previous poetry collections and seventeen novels. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages and she has won many honors, including the Golden Rose, the oldest poetry award in the country. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband, Ira Wood, the novelist, memoirist, community radio interviewer, and essayist. Rights Territories: World Audio: No British: Yes Restriction: World Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: WALLACE LITERARY AGENCY, INC. Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles The Hunger Moon/Piercy, Marge/HC The Hunger Moon/Piercy, Marge/TR Hunger Moon, The (Ebk)/Piercy, Marge/EL The Crooked Inheritance/Piercy, Marge/HC The Crooked Inheritance/Piercy, Marge/TR Crooked Inheritance, The (Ebk)/Piercy, M… Colors Passing Through Us/Piercy, Marge/… Colors Passing Through Us/Piercy, Marge/… ISBN 978-0-385-35389-2 ISBN 978-0-307-59410-5 978-0-375-71202-9 978-0-307-59981-0 978-0-307-26507-4 978-0-375-71140-4 978-0-307-49466-5 9780375415371 978-0-375-71005-6 OS 3/15 On sale 3/11 11/12 3/11 10/06 6/09 8/13 3/03 9/04 Publisher Knopf Publisher Knopf Knopf Knopf Knopf Knopf Knopf Knopf Knopf Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: No Special Markets: Agent: LOIS WALLACE Price Price $30.00/$34.00 Can. $19.95/$23.95 Can. $13.99/$16.99 Can. $24.00/$32.00 Can. $17.00/$19.00 Can. $12.99/$13.99 Can. $23.00/$35.00 Can. $15.00/$21.00 Can. American Warlord A True Story Johnny Dwyer A gripping work of reportage that, for the first time, tells the story of "Chucky" Taylor, a young American who lost his soul in Liberia, the country where his African father was a ruthless warlord and dictator. Chucky Taylor was in many ways an average American kid: growing up in Florida he had friends, a high school sweetheart, and some brushes with the law. But then, in 1992, at age fifteen, he traveled to Liberia to meet his estranged father, Charles Taylor--the warlord and future president of Liberia. Adrift in a strange, underdeveloped country, Chucky became the commander of the infamous Anti-Terrorist Unit, aka "Demon Forces." Suddenly powerful amidst the lawlessness of his father's rule, any semblance of morality vanished: the savagery and pointlessness of his crimes shocked even his brutal father. Fleeing Liberia as his father's government fell, Chucky was caught sneaking into the United States and became the first American convicted of the war crime of torture. Now, Johnny Dwyer's deeply researched book tells not just the riveting story of Chucky Taylor and his family, but also of Liberia, a nation which only recently has found reason to hope for the future. ON SALE 4/7/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-27348-2 $26.95/$32.00 Can. Category: Biography BISAC 1: History - Africa - West BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Criminals & Outlaws BISAC 3: Social Science - Violence In Society Page Count: 368 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Carton Count: 12 Illustrations: 16PP OF PHOTOS + 2 MAPS Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erinn B. Hartman Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features Men's Magazine and Blog Coverage Coverage on News and Political Sites and Blogs 3-city Author Tour: Miami, New York, and Washington, D.C. Extra Galleys Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in The New York Times Book Review Major Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, Atlantic.com, Guardian, Time.com, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Politico, and other news and political sites Facebook AdvertisingCampaign Online photo slide show EXTENSIVE FIRSTHAND RESEARCH: Dwyer has been researching and reporting on Liberia and the Taylor family for seven years, first reporting on the story for Rolling Stone in 2008, on the eve of the trial. Over the years, he has been able to correspond with and access Chucky and others involved directly. His research draws from hundreds of documents declassified for this book. UNKNOWN STORY: The story of regime change in Liberia seen through the Taylor family has never been revealed in such detail; this book will break new ground. A NEWFOUND INTEREST: Africa's place in the American consciousness is growing, demonstrated by the groundswell of interest in new African novelists, and American Warlord, which explores Liberia's origins in American slavery, is a perfect book to connect that continent with our own, and make the most of the surge of attention. JUSTICE FOR FATHER & SON: Chucky was convicted in 2008 in a federal court in Miami and sentenced to ninety-seven years in prison. He was the first American to be convicted for human rights violations committed abroad. His father was convicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone in 2012, the first former head of state convicted by an international tribunal since Nuremberg. He was sentenced to fifty years. Both men are expected to spend their entire lives in prison. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: New York, NY JOHNNY DWYER is a reporter living in New York City. He has written for Esquire, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Time magazine, Foreign Policy, Vice, and The New York Times. American Warlord is his first book. Rights Territories: US, Canada, open market Audio: Yes British: No Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt Other Editions E-book Comp Titles Dancing in the Glory of Monsters /Stearn… The House at Sugar Beach/Cooper, Helene/… The House at Sugar Beach/Cooper, Helene/… A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldie… A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldie… The Devil's Highway /Urrea, Luis Alberto… Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: WILLIAM MORRIS ENDEAVOR ISBN 978-0-385-35303-8 ISBN 9781586489298 9780743266246 9780743266253 9780374105235 9780374531263 9780316010801 OS 4/15 On sale 03/11 09/08 07/09 02/07 08/08 09/05 Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: No Special Markets: Agent: SHAWN COYNE Publisher Knopf Publisher PublicAffairs Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster Sarah Crichton Books Sarah Crichton Books Back Bay Books Price Price $28.99 $25.00 $15.99 $24.00 $13.00 $15.00 Healthy Pasta The Sexy, Skinny, and Smart Way to Eat Your Favorite Food Joseph Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali ON SALE 4/7/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35224-6 $27.95 Category: Cookbooks BISAC 1: Cooking - Pasta BISAC 2: Cooking - Health BISAC 3: Cooking - Italian Page Count: 192 Trim Size: 8 x 9-1/8 Spine/Depth: 23/32 Carton Count: 12 Illustrations: 60 PHOTOGRAPHS IN TEXT A delectable, wonderfully informative, easy-to-use cookbook that provides simple ways to make pasta an integral part of a healthy and well-balanced life style--even gluten-free--from two members of the beloved first family of Italian American cooking. As it says in the introduction: "Eating pasta can be advantageous to your health, satisfying, and economical. Pasta should be a staple in every kitchen." Now, brother and sister Bastianich--who certainly know great-tasting food--provide tips, instructions, and delectable recipes for making pasta healthfully delicious. This is not a diet book--there are no tricks and no punishing regimens--but a guide to enjoying more of the food you love in ways that are good for you. Joe and Tanya explain the health benefits of cooking pasta al dente; they show us ingredients and cooking methods that maximize taste but minimize fat content and calories; and they provide us with 100 mouth watering recipes for regular, whole grain, and gluten-free pastas, including: Gnocchi with Lentils, Onions, and Spinach; Bucatini with Broccoli Walnut Pesto; Linguine with Shrimp and Lemon; Summer Couscous Salad with Crunchy Vegetables; Spaghetti and Onion Fritttata; and many more. A book to revolutionize the way we think about pasta. Buon appetito! THE BASIC PREMISE: A very commercial concept: not a gimmicky diet book but a long-term way to eat a favorite food and keep it healthy, which will resonate with a lot of pasta lovers and people who want to love their pasta more--and, thus, a lot of book buyers. VALUABLE, HEALTHY TIPS: What different grains mean to your diet; pairing certain grains with sauces; why better quality pasta is healthier; how to reduce fat and calories in your sauces, etc. Every recipe gives the number of calories in the dish. Also, several gluten-free options. PUBLICITY: Because of Joe's success on MasterChef and MasterChef Junior, and the appealing idea of the book, we should have a lot of ways to promote and publicize this fresh concept. Both Joe and Tanya will publicize the book. Marketing and Publicity About the Author/Illustrator Publicist: Erinn McGrath Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle National Media Appearances, including a morning show, The Chew, NPR, and print features National Food Press Health and Fitness Magazines, Sites, and Blog Coverage Select Author Appearances (possibilities include Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C.) Major Online Advertising and Marketing Campaign Advertising Campaign on NYTimes.com, WashPost.com, Boston.com, Philly.com, ChicagoTribune.com, EW.com, RealSimple.com, designsponge.com, bhg.com Food and Cooking Sites, including epicurious.com, eater.com, seriouseats.com, allrecipes.com, foodnetwork.com, cookinglight.com, eatingwell.com, myrecipes.com, MarthaStewart.com Google Search Term Advertising Outreach to food and diet blogs Dedicated Borzoi Cooks email blast Inclusion on Borzoi Cooks Pinterest Board Author Residence: Greenwich, CT & New York, NY JOSEPH BASTIANICH is co-owner (with Mario Batali) of Eataly, Babbo, Esca, Lupa, and Italian Wine Merchants, as well as (with Lidia Bastianich) Becco and Felidia, and has published extensively on the subject of Italian wine. TANYA BASTIANICH MANUALI received her PhD in Renaissance art history from Oxford University. In 1996 she started Esperienze Italiane, a travel company that arranges food, wine, and art tours to Italy. She also coauthors cookbooks with her mother, Lidia; manages Lidia's product line; and serves as the cultural and art consultant for the art series. Rights Territories: US, Canada, open market Audio: No British: No Restriction: US, Opn Mkt (no CAN) Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles Lidia's Commonsense Ital Cking/Bastianic… Lidia's Commonsense Ital Cking/Bastianic… Lidia's Commonsense Ital (Ebk)/Bastianic… Lidia's Favorite Recipes/Bastianich, Lid… Lidia's Favorite Recipes (Ebk)/Bastianic… Restaurant Man/ Joe Bastianich Lidia's Italy In America/Bastianich, Lid… Comp Titles Giada's Feel Good Food/De Laurentiis, Gi… Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: ISBN 978-0-385-35225-3 ISBN 978-0-385-34944-4 978-0-449-01620-6 978-0-385-34945-1 978-0-307-59566-9 978-0-307-96085-6 9780670023523 978-0-307-59567-6 ISBN 978-0-307-98720-4 OS 4/15 On sale 10/13 10/13 10/13 10/12 10/12 05/12 10/11 On sale 11/13 Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: Publisher Knopf Publisher Knopf Appetite by Random House Knopf Knopf Knopf Viking Adult Knopf Publisher Clarkson Potter Price Price $35.00 $0.00/$35.00 Can. $18.99 $24.95/$27.95 Can. $18.99/$14.99 Can. $27.95 $35.00/$38.00 Can. Price $32.50/$35.00 Can. Odysseus Abroad A novel Amit Chaudhuri From the widely acclaimed writer, a beguiling new novel, at once wistful and ribald, about a day in the life of two Indian men in London--a university student and his bachelor uncle--each coping in his own way with alienation, solitariness, and the very art of living. It is 1985. Twenty-two-year-old Ananda has been in London for two years, practicing at being a poet. He's homesick, thinks of himself as an inveterate outsider, and yet he can't help feeling that there's something romantic, even poetic, in his isolation. His uncle, Radhesh, a magnificent failure who lives in genteel impoverishment and celibacy, has been in London for nearly three decades. Odysseus Abroad follows them on one of their weekly, familiar forays about town. The narrative surface has the sensual richness that has graced all of Amit Chaudhuri's work. But the great charm and depth of the novel reside in Ananda's far-ranging ruminations (into the triangle between his mother, father, and Radhesh--his mother's brother, his father's best friend; his Sylheti/Bengali ancestry; the ambitions and pressures that rest on his shoulders); in Radhesh's often artfully wielded idiosyncrasies; and in the spiky, needful, sometimes comical, yet ultimately loving connection between the two men. ON SALE 4/7/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-1-101-87451-6 $22.95/$26.95 Can. Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Cultural Heritage BISAC 2: Fiction - Family Life BISAC 3: Fiction - Literary Page Count: 224 Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4 Spine/Depth: 28/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Gabrielle Brooks Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Print Features National Online interviews, reviews, and literary blog coverage Select Author Appearances Extra Galleys Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in Harper's Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, Salon, Slate, Boston.com, SFChronicle.com, Facebook Quote Card campaign through social media outlets Reading Group Guide RETURN TO NOVEL WRITING: Chaudhuri's previous book was a work of nonfiction, Calcutta, and this is a return to his celebrated fiction style. WELL-REGARDED AUTHOR: Amit Chaudhuri has been heralded as one of the most distinct voices in international literature. The numerous awards his work has received include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Among his fans are James Wood, Richard Ford, Ann Beattie, Jim Harrison, Annie Dillard. HOMAGE: This is a book that speaks not only to Homer's Odyssey but also to James Joyce's Ulysses, tapping into--and re-envisioning--a rich vein of classic material that readers will take pleasure in recognizing. COMPRESSED: An elegant and swift-moving piece of writing that begs to be read in a single sitting. INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION: Penguin India is publishing in November 2014, and the UK publisher Oneworld in February 2015, so we will have early reviews to work with. Praise for Amit Chaudhuri "A gifted writer who has created an indelible portrait of India...while at the same time leaving us with a Proustian tapestry of quotidian moments recaptured and remade as they loom large and astonishing in his characters' minds." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "No lover of literature will fail to love these vivid novels by a master of prose." --Annie Dillard About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: India; UK Author Hometown: India AMIT CHAUDHURI is the author of several award-winning novels and an internationally acclaimed musician and essayist. Freedom Song: Three Novels received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. His many international honors include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; most recently, he became the first recipient of the Infosys Prize for Humanities-Literary Studies. He is a contributor to the London Review of Books, Granta, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is currently professor of contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 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Women of Will The Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays Tina Packer ON SALE 4/7/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-70039-1 $27.95/$33.00 Can. Category: Literary Criticism BISAC 1: Literary Criticism - Shakespeare BISAC 2: Performing Arts - Theater - History & Criticism BISAC 3: Literary Criticism & Collections - Feminist Criticism Page Count: 336 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 41/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Jessica Purcell Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features Women's Magazine and Blog Coverage Theater press Author Tour Extra Galleys Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books and The Folger Journal Major Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com, WashPost.com, Salon.com, HuffPost.com Promotion through Shakespeare Facebook page (13.5 million likes) Possible Facebook chat with author on Shakespeare Facebook page Outreach to feminist bloggers From one of the country's foremost experts on Shakespeare and theatre arts, a fierce, funny exploration--part master class, part brilliant analysis--of the women of Shakespeare's plays that illuminates for us his changing understanding of the feminine and reveals some of his deepest insights. Beginning with Shakespeare's early work, including the early comedies (The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Love's Labour's Lost) and early histories (Henry VI: Parts 1, 2, 3 and Richard III), Tina Packer writes of his journey becoming a playwright and actor, and the role of the theatre in Elizabethan England. She explores Romeo and Juliet as a foundation for Shakespeare's deeper understanding of the relationship between men and women as well as the continuation of the sexual/spiritual story of A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing and Troilus and Cressida, and which has its supreme manifestation in Antony and Cleopatra. She wrestles with Shakespeare's middle period: with Isabella in Measure for Measure, with Twelfth Night, Hamlet, As You Like It, and Othello, giving us a clear picture of the constraints put upon the women of these plays as they articulate the truth about what they see and feel . . . She asks--and answers--what happens when women want the same power as men, and examines Macbeth, Coriolanus, and King Lear. A long-awaited book. One the country's premier experts on Shakespeare and founder of the more than three decades old Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts (one of the most influential Shakespeare companies in the U.S.), Packer has been traveling the country for four years performing a theatrical version of Women of Will ("Impassioned; compelling . . . It's not just poetry in motion; it's thought made flesh" --Ben Brantley, New York Times). She has appeared in Lenox (3 years); Boston; Boulder, Colorado; Los Angeles; San Francisco; State Theatre of New Jersey; Charlotte, North Carolina; Sewanee, Tennessee; Nashvillle, Tennessee; and New York. To help publicize the book, Packer has planned an exclusive tour, performing Women of Will in major cities, including: Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, San Diego, and Philadelphia. Dates--and additional cities--to come. COMP TITLES: Juliet Dusinberre's Shakespeare and the Nature of Women; Kate Chedqzoy's Shakespeare, Feminism and Gender. Books on Shakespeare but not about his female characters: Harold Bloom's Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, and James Shapiro's A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Stockbridge, MA TINA PACKER is the founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. She has directed most of Shakespeare's plays (some of them several times), acted in seven of them, and taught the whole canon in various guises at thirty colleges, among them Harvard, MIT, and Columbia. Packer was an Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England, working at The Royal Court and the Aldwych Theatre in London, at Leicester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and other regional theatres, as well as in television for the BBC and ITV, including David Copperfield with Ian McKellen. She lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Rights Territories: US, Canada, open market Audio: No British: No Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles Tales From Shakespeare / Tina Packer / H… Tales From Shakespeare / Tina Packer / T… Comp Titles Shakespeare and Women / Phyllis Rackin /… Shakespeare, Feminism, and Gender / Kate… Feminist Companion to Shakespeare / Dymp… As She Likes It / Penny Gay / HC The Women's Part / Carol Lenz / HC Shakespeare and the Nature of Women / Ju… Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: LEVINE GREENBERG LITERARY ISBN 978-0-385-35326-7 ISBN 9780439321075 9780439738873 ISBN 9780198186946 9780333716519 9780631208068 9780415096959 9780252007514 9780333179543 OS 4/15 On sale 01/2004 04/2004 On sale 04/2005 03/2001 08/2000 08/1994 10/1980 06/1975 Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: No Special Markets: Agent: JAMES A. LEVINE Publisher Knopf Publisher Scholastic Scholastic Publisher Oxford University Press Palgrave Macmillan Blackwell Routledge University of Illinois Press Palgrave Macmillan Price Price Price $40.00 $42.00 James Merrill Life and Art Langdon Hammer ON SALE 4/14/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-375-41333-9 $40.00/$46.00 Can. Category: Biography BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Literary BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - LGBT BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Rich & Famous Page Count: 840 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Carton Count: 12 Illustrations: 32PP OF PHOTOS;5 PHOTOS IN TXT Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Brittany Morrongiello Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features Poetry Press Gay Magazines, Sites, and Blog Coverage National Online interviews, reviews and literary blog coverage Author Tour: Boston, New England, and New York National Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, Poets & Writers.org, Paris Review, and Facebook The first biography of one of the most important poets in the second half of the twentieth century, whose life story is unparalleled in its narrative interest. The story of James Merrill (1926-1995) is that of a young man escaping, but inevitably reproducing, the energies and obsessions of glamorous, powerful parents (his father founded Merrill Lynch); of a gay man inventing his identity against a shifting social and sexual backdrop; and of a brilliantly gifted poet testing the redemptive potential of his art. We see how Merrill, freed from having to work for a living, made his life itself a kind of work. After Amherst and a period of adventure in Italy, he returned to the New York art world of the 1950s (he met W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Larry Rivers) and began publishing his poems, novels, and plays. In 1953, he fell in love with budding writer David Jackson, who remained his companion for forty years while they explored "boys and bars" in Greece and elsewhere. At the same time, they were talking to the spirits of the otherworld using a Ouija board, which became an improbable source of poetic inspiration for Merrill. In his many collections of poetry and the candid letters and diaries that enrich every page of this deliciously readable life, Merrill created a prismatic art of multiple perspectives. Holding that life and art together in a complex, evolving whole, Langdon Hammer illuminates Merrill's "chronicles of love & loss" and the remarkable personal journey they record. THE POET: Merrill's visibility and importance has increased since his death and a biography of his life should be a major front-page occasion for the book reviews. THE BIOGRAPHER: this Yale professor and critic will be discovered as a literary biographer of the first rank, as he offers a deeply absorbing story of Merrill's unique life and art, at the highest level of scholarship. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: New Haven, CT LANGDON HAMMER is chair of the English Department at Yale and the poetry editor of The American Scholar. His books include Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism and, as editor for the Library of America, Hart Crane: Complete Poetry and Hart Crane: Selected Letters and May Swenson: Collected Poems. His lectures on modern poetry are available free online at Yale Open Courses. Rights Territories: US, Canada, open market Audio: No British: No Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: ROBERT CORNFIELD Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected… Hart Crane and Allen Tate Comp Titles Cheever/Bailey, Blake/HC Cheever/Bailey, Blake/TR Cheever (Ebk)/Bailey, Blake/EL ISBN 978-0-385-35308-3 ISBN 9781931082990 9780691068770 ISBN 978-1-4000-4394-1 978-1-4000-7968-1 978-0-307-27137-2 OS 4/15 On sale 09/06 06/93 On sale 3/09 3/10 3/09 Publisher Knopf Publisher Library of America Princeton U. Press Publisher Knopf Vintage Vintage Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: No Special Markets: Agent: ROBERT CORNFIELD Price Price Price $35.00/$40.00 Can. $16.95/$21.00 Can. $13.99/$13.99 Can. Natural Born Heroes How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance Christopher McDougall ON SALE 4/14/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-59496-9 $25.95/$30.00 Can. Category: Sports BISAC 1: Health & Fitness - Exercise BISAC 2: Travel - Adventure BISAC 3: History - Military - World War II Page Count: 368 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 41/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erica Hinsley Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Men's Magazine and Blog Coverage Sports, Fitness, and Running Publications and Blog Coverage Coverage in WW II and History Publications Appearances at Running, Fitness, and CrossFit Events and Marathons Author Tour, including Boston and New England, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Extra Galleys with cover covers Also available as an eGalley Major Print Advertising Campaign, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Major Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, USAToday.com, Esquire, AskMen.com, Rolling Stone, Maxim, GQ, RunnersWorld, MensJournal, MensHealth, LiveStrong, ScienceofRunning, Mensfitness.com, additional running sites, and Facebook Outdoor Advertising in major markets Major Social Media Promotion, including quote graphics and contests Jacket Blowups Available Author of the phenomenal national best seller, Born to Run, Christopher McDougall now travels to the Mediterranean where he discovers that the secrets of ancient Greek heroes are still alive and well on the island of Crete and in the muscles and minds of fitness enthusiasts everywhere. While researching Born to Run, Chris McDougall encountered the story of Pheidippides, the legendary ancient Greek "all-day runner." Later, when McDougall met a dedicated amateur historian, he saw a connection to one of the most fascinating mysteries of World War II: How did a small band of Resistance fighters surrounded by German troops kidnap a top German general? What he discovered is that ancestral techniques for extraordinary endurance, natural movement, and nutrition allowed ancient Greek soldiers and Cretan shepherds to race across mountains on all-night missions. Inspired by their heroic acts, McDougall sets off to discover the lost art of the hero, both throughout history and across the world. Just as Born to Run inspired casual runners to get off the treadmill, out of their shoes, and into nature, Natural-Born Heroes will inspire casual athletes to leave the gym and take their fitness to nature doing cross-training, mud runs, parkour and free-running to bound--and climb, swim, skip, wade, and jump--their way to heroic feats. SALES HISTORY: Born to Run has been a huge international best seller, published in 30 countries to date. In the U.S., it spent a combined 206 weeks on The New York Times best seller list, also landing on every other major American best seller list. MORE THAN A MILLION COPIES SOLD: The Knopf and Vintage editions have netted more than one million copies across all formats. AUTHOR: Chris is very well connected in the media and in the running world, giving us the ability to reach significant numbers of readers. HISTORY MEETS FITNESS: Natural-Born Heroes combines a thrilling WORLD WAR II adventure narrative with a a fascinating sports narrative. The incredible feats of daring of the Resistance are every bit as impressive, and as thrilling to read about, as Chris's explorations of modern sports and fitness. SUBJECT: Just as Born to Run was ahead of the curve on barefoot running, trail running, and ultramarathoning, Natural-Born Heroes is ahead of the curve on tough mudders, parkour, Crossfit and movement to get people out of gyms and onto obstacle courses. Praise for Born to Run: A Forbes and Washington Post Best Book of the Year "A tale so mind-blowing as to be the stuff of legend." --The Denver Post "Fascinating. Thrilling. An operatic ode to the joys of running." --The Washington Post "One of the most entertaining running books ever." --Amby Burfoot, Runnersworld.com "Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history. It simply makes you want to run." --Outside About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Lancaster, PA Christopher McDougall is a former war correspondent for the Associated Press and is now a contributing editor for Men's Health. A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Men's Journal, and New York. Rights Territories: World Audio: Yes British: Yes Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: Yes Agency: LARRY WEISSMAN LLC Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles Born To Run/Mcdougall, Christopher/HC Born To Run/Mcdougall, Christopher/TR Born To Run (Ebk)/Mcdougall, Christopher… ISBN 978-0-307-96228-7 ISBN 978-0-307-26630-9 978-0-307-27918-7 978-0-307-27191-4 OS 4/15 On sale 5/09 3/11 5/09 Publisher Knopf Publisher Knopf Vintage Vintage Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: Price Price $24.95/$29.95 Can. $16.00/$19.00 Can. $11.99/$13.99 Can. Skyfaring A Journey with a Pilot Mark Vanhoenacker A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys and renews our capacity to be amazed. The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight--a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity--to the realm of the mundane. When most people today think of flying, they imagine tedious routines that involve security checkpoints, exorbitant baggage fees, shrinking legroom, and frustrating delays. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who gave up careers in academia and the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to reimagine what we--both as pilots and as passengers--are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family, and physics, the author vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries, above mountains, oceans, and deserts, through snow, wind, and rain, limning a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity that affords us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form. ON SALE 4/14/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35181-2 $24.95 Category: Transportation BISAC 1: Transportation - Aviation - General BISAC 2: Science - Natural History BISAC 3: Travel - Adventure Page Count: 288 Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4 Spine/Depth: 34/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Kim Thornton Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features Aviation and Travel Press Extra Galleys Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in The Atlantic Online Advertising, including NYTimes.com, Slate, LATimes.com, WashPost.com, Boston.com, ChicagoTribune.com, SFChronicle.com, Sport Aviation; sites dedicated to history, politics, geography, meteorology, and ecology Facebook Advertising Campaign Video Trailer, featuring the author piloting a plane STORY: While there is a great literature of flight, the best of it is old. Skyfaring will fill this void in the current market. AUTHOR: Vanhoenacker contributes to a range of publications including The New York Times, Slate, Wired, and Financial Times. AUDIENCE: The range of approaches he takes to his subject is sure to attract a wide array of readers who are united by the shared experience of flight. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: New York, NY MARK VANHOENACKER is a pilot and writer. A regular contributor to The New York Times and a columnist for Slate, he has also written for Wired, Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Independent. Trained as a historian, he worked as a management consultant before starting his flight training in 2001. His airline career began in 2003. He lives in New York. Rights Territories: US, open market (no Europe, no Canada) Audio: Yes British: No Restriction: US,OpnMkt(no EU/CAN) Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: PETERS FRASER & DUNLOP GROUP L Other Editions E-book Comp Titles Falling Upwards/Holmes, Richard/HC Falling Upwards (Ebk)/Holmes, Richard/EL Inside The Sky/Langewiesche, William/HC Inside The Sky/Langewiesche, William/TR ISBN 978-0-385-35182-9 ISBN 978-0-307-37966-5 978-0-307-90870-4 9780679429838 9780679750079 OS 4/15 On sale 10/13 10/13 5/98 6/99 Publisher Knopf Publisher Pantheon Vintage Pantheon Vintage Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: CAROLINE MICHEL Price Price $35.00 $13.99 $24.00/$33.50 Can. $16.00/$19.00 Can. Voices in the Night Stories Steven Millhauser From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories--provocative, funny, disturbing, magical--that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the human spirit. Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small-town life, Steven Millhauser further reveals in Voices in the Night the darkest parts of our inner selves to brilliant and dazzling effect. Here are stories of wondrously imaginative hyperrealism, stories that pose unsettling what-ifs or that find barely perceivable evils within the safe boundaries of our towns, homes, and even our bodies. Here, too, are stories culled from religion and fables: from Samuel, who in the masterly "A Voice in the Night" hears the voice of God calling him in the night; to a young, pre-enlightenment Buddha; to Rapunzel and her Prince awakened only to everyday disappointment. Heightened by magic, the divine, and the uncanny, shot through with sly humor, Voices in the Night seamlessly combines the whimsy and surprise of the familiar with intoxicating fantasies that take us beyond our daily lives, all done with the hallmark sleight of hand and astonishing virtuosity of one of our greatest modern storytellers. ON SALE 4/14/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35159-1 $25.95/$30.00 Can. Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Short Stories (single author) BISAC 2: Fiction - Literary BISAC 3: Fiction - Visionary & Metaphysical Page Count: 304 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/8 Spine/Depth: 35/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erica Hinsley Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle National Print Features National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Author Tour: Boston, New England, and New York Extra Galleys Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in Poets & Writers and The New York Review of Books Online Advertising on NYTimes.com, SFChronicle.com, Salon, and Facebook CRICITAL ACCLAIM: We Others, Millhauser's most recent omnibus of new and selected stories, was showered with coast-to-coast raves. It won the 2011 Story Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. PRIOR PUBLICATIONS: This book includes four previously unpublished stories; others have been published in McSweeney's, Tin House, Harper's Magazine, Best American Short Stories, and in The New Yorker, where Millhauser is a house favorite. SALES: Dangerous Laughter, his last all-new collection, was a New York Times Book Review front-cover review; his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Martin Dressler, has sold more than 238,000 copies across all formats. Praise for We Others "Powerful, sublime . . . A book of astonishingly beautiful and moving stories by one of America's finest and most original writers." --Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books "Lapidary, disturbing, mandarin, brilliant, perverse, and funny . . . A longtime master, Millhauser writes with clarity, power, and emotional heft." --Claire Dederer, Slate About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Saratoga Springs, NY STEVEN MILLHAUSER is the author of numerous works of fiction, including Martin Dressler, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1997, and, most recently, We Others: New and Selected Stories, winner of The Story Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His work has been translated into fifteen languages, and his story "Eisenheim the Illusionist" was the basis of the 2006 film The Illusionist. He teaches at Skidmore College. Rights Territories: US, Canada, open market Audio: No British: No Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE MANAGEM Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles We Others/Millhauser, Steven/HC We Others/Millhauser, Steven/TR We Others (Ebk)/Millhauser, Steven/EL Dangerous Laughter/Millhauser, Steven/HC Dangerous Laughter/Millhauser, Steven/TR Comp Titles Vampires In The Lemon Grove/Russell, Kar… Vampires In The Lemon Grove/Russell, Kar… Vampires In The Lemon Gr(Ebk)/Russell, K… ISBN 978-0-385-35160-7 ISBN 978-0-307-59590-4 978-0-307-74342-8 978-0-307-70143-5 978-0-307-26756-6 978-0-307-38747-9 ISBN 978-0-307-95723-8 978-0-307-94747-5 978-0-307-96108-2 OS 4/15 On sale 8/11 9/12 8/11 2/08 2/09 On sale 2/13 1/14 2/13 Publisher Knopf Publisher Knopf Vintage Vintage Knopf Vintage Publisher Knopf Vintage Vintage Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: No Special Markets: Agent: AMANDA URBAN Price Price $27.95/$32.00 Can. $16.00/$19.00 Can. $11.99/$13.99 Can. $24.00/$28.00 Can. $15.95/$18.95 Can. Price $24.95/$28.95 Can. $14.95/$17.95 Can. $9.99/$10.99 Can. My Organic Life How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today Nora Pouillon ON SALE 4/21/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35075-4 $26.95/$32.00 Can. Category: Biography BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Culinary BISAC 2: Cooking - Natural Foods BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Women Page Count: 288 Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4 Spine/Depth: 36/32 Carton Count: 12 Illustrations: 11 CHAPTER OPENERS Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erinn McGrath Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features Women's Magazine and Blog Coverage National Food Press 4-city Author Tour: Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC Extra Galleys Also Available as an eGalley Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, WashPost.com, SFChronicle.com, EatingWell.com, Epicurious, AllRecipes.com, BetterHomesandGardens.com, HGTV.com Major Facebook Campaign A wonderfully engaging memoir from the woman who founded Restaurant Nora, America's first certified organic restaurant--the natural foods pioneer who, earlier than anyone else, made it her mission to bring organic foods to the American table. The current proliferation of organic food and farm-to-table cuisine owes its existence to this mostly unheralded, groundbreaking woman who changed the way we eat as few others have. Growing up on a farm in the Alps, she was surrounded by fresh food--delicious produce and meats that had never been touched by artificial pesticides or hormones. When she and her husband moved to the United States in the 1960s, she was horrified to discover a food culture dominated by hormone-bloated meat and unseasonal vegetables. The distance between good, healthy produce and what even the top restaurants were serving was enormous. Determined to make a difference, first as a teacher and then as the country's premiere organic restaurateur, she charted a path that forever changed our relationship with what we eat. Spanning the last forty years of our culinary history, My Organic Life gives us the remarkable life of a little-known hero of the organic revolution. AUTHOR PROFILE: Nora is to the East Coast what Alice Waters is to California. She is iconic in her industry. A NATION'S OBSESSION: Organic food has never been more talked about than it is today. The rise of supermarkets like Whole Foods, Michelle Obama's healthy eating programs, and the controversial Stanford study of the healthfulness of organic vs. traditional produce, have brought the organic movement to the forefront of popular consciousness. A CHEF'S STORY: Following in the footsteps of Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, & Butter, Marcus Samuelsson's Yes, Chef, and Thomas McNamee's Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, this is a deeply personal story as well as the story of a food movement. NORA'S FANS: Restaurant Nora was chosen as the venue for Michelle Obama's birthday party in 2010 and has been visited by every president since Carter. Since it opened in 1979, it has been a hangout for journalists and politicians alike. Praise for Nora Pouillon "As founder of America's first organic restaurant, and tireless advocate of local food systems (not to mention a brilliant chef), Nora Pouillon is one of the pioneers of the Food Movement." --Michael Pollan "Her inspiring personal tale of turning a passion for food into both a career and cause . . . parallels the nation's changing relationship with its food supply. A nation is what it eats, and to understand what and how America should be eating now, we need Nora Pouillon." --David Corn, journalist About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Washington, DC Author Hometown: Vienna, Austria NORA POUILLON was born in Vienna in 1943. She moved to the United States in the late 1960s and in 1979 opened Restaurant Nora, which in 1999 became the first certified organic restaurant in the country. Rights Territories: World Audio: Yes British: Yes Restriction: World Other Editions E-book Comp Titles Yes, Chef/Samuelsson, Marcus/HC Yes, Chef/Samuelsson, Marcus/TR Yes, Chef (Ebk)/Samuelsson, Marcus/EL Blood, Bones & Butter/Hamilton, Gabriell… Blood, Bones & Butter/Hamilton, Gabriell… Blood, Bones & Butter (Ebk)/Hamilton, Ga… Alice Waters and Chez Panisse/HC/McNamee… Alice Waters and Chez Panisse/TR/McNamee… Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: Yes Agency: DEBORAH GROSVENOR ISBN 978-0-385-35076-1 ISBN 978-0-385-34260-5 978-0-385-34261-2 978-0-440-33881-9 978-1-4000-6872-2 978-0-8129-8088-2 978-1-58836-931-4 9781594201158 9780143113089 OS 4/15 On sale 6/12 5/13 6/12 3/11 1/12 3/11 03/07 02/08 Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: DEBORAH GROSVENOR Publisher Knopf Publisher Random House Random House Trade Paperbacks Random House Random House Random House Trade Paperbacks Random House Penguin Penguin Price Price $27.00/$32.00 Can. $16.00/$19.00 Can. $11.99/$13.99 Can. $26.00/$30.00 Can. $16.00/$19.00 Can. $11.99/$13.99 Can. $27.95 $16.00 The Children Return A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel Martin Walker The Dordogne's favorite chief of police is back in a heart-poundingly suspenseful case that finds his small town innocently targeted by a global terrorism network. When an agent tracking domestic jihadists is found murdered near St. Denis, it's troubling enough for Bruno's beloved village. But when Sami--an autistic Muslim youth raised locally but thought lost to Islamic extremism in Afghanistan--comes home, things get far more complicated: abducted and exploited for his technological genius, Sami has used that same talent to gather a trove of al-Qaeda intel. Now the same jihadists who killed the agent aim to silence Sami, and as an international tribunal descends to process Sami's case, Bruno must scramble to track the terrorists down before they exact their own justice. Meanwhile, Bruno's juggling the affections of a sometime lover and the mixed, alluring signals of one of the high-ranking U.S. intelligence officers on Sami's case. Add to that a member of the tribunal with dangerous skeletons in his closet, and a high-profile Jewish philanthropist whose presence in St. Denis seems to be attracting attention from the jihadists. It's almost enough to make Bruno miss out on the village's wine harvest supper. ON SALE 4/28/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35415-8 $24.95 Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Cozy BISAC 2: Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense BISAC 3: Fiction - Crime Page Count: 336 Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4 Spine/Depth: 38/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Brittany Morrongiello Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Print Features Mystery Press Select Author Appearances Extra Galleys Also available an eGalley Online Advertising Campaign on NYTimes.com, WashPost.com, SFChronicle.com Online Advertising and Promotion on GoodReads, LibraryThing, and BookBrowse Facebook Advertising Campaign Jacket Blowups Available GROWING SALES: Each new Bruno book not only wins new readers for the series, but spurs backlist sales. Across all platforms the series now has almost 140,000 copies in print. RIPPED-FROM-THE-HEADLINES STORY: The Children Return features Martin Walker's timeliest subject to date--jihadist terrorism--which should enhance promotional opportunities. AUTHOR APPEAL: Booksellers and sales reps report increasing enthusiasm for author appearances, and Walker has committed to a full slate of media and in-person appearances. ONLINE PRESENCE: Walker actively updates the charming Bruno, Chief of Police website (brunochiefofpolice.com), which features everything from the author's personal blog, to recipes featured in the books, to extensive travel suggestions for the Périgord region. It even includes Bruno's Spotify playlist. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Washington, D.C. Author Hometown: London, England MARTIN WALKER is a senior fellow of the Global Business Policy Council, a private think tank for CEOs of major corporations, based in Washington, D.C. He is also editor in chief emeritus and international affairs columnist at United Press International. His previous novels in the Bruno series are Black Diamond; Bruno, Chief of Police; The Crowded Grave; The Dark Vineyard; The Devil's Cave, and The Resistance Man, all international best sellers. He lives in Washington, D.C., and the Dordogne. Rights Territories: US, open market (no Europe, no Canada) Audio: Yes British: No Restriction: US,OpnMkt(no EU/CAN) Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles The Resistance Man/Walker, Martin/HC Resistance Man,The/Walker, Martin/TR Resistance Man, The (Ebk)/Walker, Martin… The Devil'S Cave/Walker, Martin/HC Comp Titles The Girl of His Dreams/Donna Leon/HC The Girl of His Dreams/Donna Leon/TR Death of a Dreamer/Beaton, M.C./MM Cold Service/Parker, Robert B./HC Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: FELICITY BRYAN ASSOCIATES LTD. ISBN 978-0-385-35416-5 ISBN 978-0-385-34954-3 978-0-345-80480-8 978-0-385-34955-0 978-0-385-34952-9 ISBN 9780871139801 9780143115618 9780446618137 9780399152405 OS 4/15 On sale 2/14 1/15 2/14 7/13 On sale 05/08 04/09 01/07 03/05 Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: STEPHANIE CABOT Publisher Knopf Publisher Knopf Vintage Knopf Knopf Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press Penguin Group USA Warner Books/Hachette Penguin Group USA Price Price $25.95 $15.95 $12.99 $24.95 Price $24.00 $15.00 $8.00 $24.95 Went the Day Well? Witnessing Waterloo David Crane ON SALE 4/28/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-59492-1 $30.00 Category: History BISAC 1: History - Great Britain BISAC 2: History - Modern - 19th Century BISAC 3: History - Military - General Page Count: 400 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 44/32 Carton Count: 12 Illustrations: 16 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Kathryn Zuckerman Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features Coverage on History, Military, and Political Sites and Blogs National Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books Online Advertising Campaign on news, political, history sites, including NYTimes.com, WSJ.com, CNN, HistoryCentral, WarHistory, HistoryNet, MilitaryHistory Outreach to history bloggers Tumblr Promotion, using timeline of events from the day Social Media Promotion around the anniversary The panoramic story of Waterloo, from its causes to its aftermath, told through uniquely interwoven narratives drawn from the diaries, letters, reminiscences, and great novels of participants and witnesses--published in time for the 200th anniversary of the battle. With Bonaparte's escape from Elba in February 1815, the world was jolted from the profound peace it had experienced for eleven months back into the frenzied panic of a war it believed had ended. David Crane captures the mixture of excitement and fear that gripped England in the final days of a war that opened up complex divisions in its society--from Liverpool merchants who celebrated the end of hostilities with America and stood allied against another war, to the children of the Romantic Age who felt torn between their own patriotism and a lingering hero-worship that no crime of Napoleon's could eradicate. And he gives us an unprecedented, revelatory hour-by-hour account of the day of the battle. Focusing as much upon the boys and men torn from their farms and flocks as on the aristocratic families who provided Wellington with his officers, Went the Day Well? is a remarkable portrait of an entire nation engaged in a battle that changed the history of our world. THE CUSP OF A NEW AGE: For Churchill the "Age of Waterloo" ended only with the beginning of World War I. The Britain that emerged from the battle was a country of unprecedented global power with a new sense of imperial destiny. The unique fascination of Waterloo is the chance it offers to see the country at a crucial moment in its nineteenth century history, fixed here amid all the trivial and mundane detail of one day, and drawn from the diaries, newspapers, and letters of the time. THE BREADTH OF THE BATTLE'S IMPACT: "There would not have been a town in Britain that had not sent its soldiers to Belgium, hardly a household that was not holding its breath . . . At the height of the invasion scarce eleven years earlier the whole country had been caught up in the demands of total war, but this was different again from anything that had gone before, different in its intensity and its immediacy, different in the fissures that it revealed in society, and different, above all in that sense of suspended time . . . during which a whole country held its breath . . . " Praise for Scott of the Antarctic "Masterly . . . engrossing . . . The most balanced biography [of Scott] yet . . . Crane's stylish prose is a sheer pleasure." --The New York Times Book Review "A volume of its own epic proportions, using a historian's depth and research perspective, leaving few stones unturned in pursuit of painting a thorough picture of the times and the intrigue and pressures of mounting such ventures." --The Providence Journal About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Scotland DAVID CRANE read history and English at Oxford University before becoming a lecturer at universities in Holland, Japan, and Africa. His previous books include Scott of the Antarctic and The Kindness of Sisters. He lives in northwest Scotland. Rights Territories: US, open market (no Europe, no Canada) Audio: No British: No Restriction: US,OpnMkt(no EU/CAN) Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: A.P. WATT LTD. Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles Scott of The Antarctic/Crane, David/HC Scott of The Antarctic/Crane, David/TR The Kindness of Sisters/Crane, David/HC Comp Titles Waterloo: A New History/Gordon Corrigan/… Napoleon: A Biography/Frank McLynn The Battle: A New History of Waterloo/ A… ISBN 978-1-101-87463-9 ISBN 978-0-375-41527-2 978-1-4000-3141-2 9780375406485 ISBN 9781605986524 9781559706315 9780802714534 OS 4/15 On sale 11/06 11/07 9/02 On sale 11/14 04/02 07/05 Publisher Knopf Publisher Knopf Vintage Knopf Publisher Pegasus Arcade Publishing Walker Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: DEREK JOHNS Price Price $30.00 $16.95 $26.95/$39.95 Can. Price $28.95 $32.95 $28.00 The Book of Aron A novel Jim Shepard From the hugely acclaimed National Book Award finalist, a novel that will join the shortlist of classics about the Holocaust and the children caught up in it. Aron, the narrator, is an engaging if peculiar young boy whose family is driven from the countryside into the Warsaw Ghetto. As his family is slowly stripped away from him, Aron and a handful of boys and girls risk their lives, smuggling and trading things through the "quarantine walls" to keep their people alive, hunted all the while by blackmailers and by Jewish, Polish, and German police (not to mention the Gestapo). Eventually Aron is "rescued" by Janusz Korczak, a Jewish-Polish doctor and advocate of children's rights famous throughout prewar Europe who, once the Nazis swept in, was put in charge of the ghetto orphanage. In the end, of course, he and his staff and all the children are put on a train to Treblinka, but has Aron managed to escape, to spread word about the atrocities, as Korczak hoped he would? Jim Shephard has masterfully made this child's-eye view of the Warsaw Ghetto mesmerizing, sometimes comic despite all odds, and truly heartbreaking. It is nothing less than a masterpiece. ON SALE 5/5/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-1-101-87431-8 $22.95 Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary BISAC 2: Fiction - Coming Of Age BISAC 3: Fiction - Jewish Page Count: 272 Trim Size: 5 x 7-1/2 Spine/Depth: 32/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Kathryn Zuckerman Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Online interviews, reviews and literary blog coverage Jewish Press 9+-city Author Tour: Boston and New England, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Advance Reader's Edition Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in The New York Times Book Review Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, Salon.com, New Yorker.com; USAToday.com; literary sites including The Millions, Guernica, Paris Review, Electric Literature, The Rumpus Facebook Advertising Campaign Online Promotion, including an early Q&A on knopfdoubleday.com with link to excerpt Reading Group Guide Library Marketing Campaign, including advertising on EarlyWord.com and LibraryJournal.com Jacket Blowups Available THE AUTHOR: Since 1996 we have published six books by Jim Shepard, who by now is widely regarded one of our premier storytellers. Dave Eggers: "Let's hope Shepard becomes as influential as he should be. He's the best we've got." John Freeman: "His voice should be essential reading." His collection Like You'd Understand Anyway (2008) won the Story Prize and was short-listed for the National Book Award, and his work has been selected several times for The Best American Short Stories and the PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories. THE BREAKTHROUGH: This book will certainly win Shepard the wide readership he has long deserved. It has routinely been pointed out that he often draws characters from many different nationalities, is exceptionally good with children, and does a tremendous amount of research, and those talents serve him very well indeed in The Book of Aron, since anyone who hears Aron's voice will remember it forever. GLOBAL APPEAL: The book caused a sensation at the London Book Fair and we very quickly sold rights in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Brazil, Canada, Norway, and Israel, and will add many other countries to that list. COMBINED APPEAL: Shepard is so highly regarded by a host of reviewers and fellow writers both young and old that this provides one strong market for this remarkable novel; but that he has now ventured into the very heart of a horror show that has rightly fixed our attention for seven decades enables us to introduce him to a host of new readers, who will soon find themselves indebted to him. As tragic as the story is, it is also deeply inspiring and a testament to Janusz Korczak's teachings. FULL-COURT PRESS: The Book of Aron gives us the occasion to promote Jim Shepard aggressively and relentlessly, so all accounts will recognize that our expectations here are every bit as great as the novel itself. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Williamstown, MA Author Hometown: Bridgeport, CT The author of six previous novels and four collections of stories, JIM SHEPARD was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and now lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with his wife and three children, and teaches at Williams College. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, McSweeney's, Tin House, Zoetrope, Playboy, and Vice, among other periodicals. Rights Territories: World Audio: No British: Yes Restriction: US, Opn Mkt (no CAN) Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: Yes Agency: STERLING LORD LITERISTIC INC Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles You Think That'S Bad/Shepard, Jim/HC You Think That'S Bad/Shepard, Jim/TR You Think That'S Bad (Ebk)/Shepard, Jim/… Like You'D Understand/Shepard, Jim/HC Comp Titles City of Thieves/Benioff, David/HC Boy In The Striped Pajamas,The/Boyne, Jo… Boy In The Striped Pajamas(Rc)/Boyne, Jo… Boy In Striped Pajamas (Ebk)/Boyne, John… ISBN 978-1-101-87432-5 ISBN 978-0-307-59482-2 978-0-307-74214-8 978-0-307-59556-0 978-0-307-26521-0 ISBN 9780670018703 978-0-385-75106-3 978-0-385-75153-7 978-0-307-49423-8 OS 5/15 On sale 3/11 3/12 3/11 9/07 On sale 5/08 9/06 10/07 12/08 Publisher Knopf Publisher Knopf Vintage Vintage Knopf Publisher Viking David Fickling Books Ember David Fickling Books Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: No Special Markets: Agent: PETER MATSON Price Price $24.95/$27.95 Can. $15.00/$18.00 Can. $11.99/$13.99 Can. $23.00/$29.95 Can. Price $24.95 $15.95/$21.00 Can. $9.99/$10.99 Can. $8.99/$9.99 Can. The Goddess Pose The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West Michelle Goldberg ON SALE 5/5/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-59351-1 $26.95/$32.00 Can. Category: Biography BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Women BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Historical BISAC 3: Health & Fitness - Yoga Page Count: 336 Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4 Spine/Depth: 38/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erica Hinsley Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features Women's Magazine and Blog Coverage Yoga and Health Publications, Sites, and Blogs Select Author Events Advertising Campaign with Yoga Journal (nearly 2 million readers) Online Advertising Campaign on NYTimes.com, Salon.com, Yoga and fitness sites Facebook Advertising Campaign Social Media Campaign: "Show Us Your Goddess Pose" Partnership outreach to Yoga Studios Outreach to Yoga Bloggers Pinterest Board of Yoga poses The incredible story of the woman--actress, dancer, yogi, globetrotter--who brought yoga to America and to much of the rest of the western world. Born Eugenia Peterson in early 20th century Russia, Indra Devi was a rebel from earliest childhood. In the 1930s she fled to Berlin, and then--driven by her passion for yoga and a fascination with yogic philosophy (and Theosophy)--she journeyed to India, at a time when unaccompanied young European women were unheard of. In India she performed perhaps her greatest feat--convincing even the most recalcitrant yogis, from Krishnamurti to Krishnamacharya, to reveal to her the secrets of their art. She would go on to share what she learned with men and women around the world--teaching Gloria Swanson and Greta Garbo in Hollywood, then moving to Mexico and later to Buenos Aires--helping to usher in the craze for yoga that continues unabated in the U.S. and throughout the world today. Written with vivid clarity, and describing the extraordinary spread and popularization of a philosophical movement, The Goddess Pose brings Indra Devi's little known but wholly remarkable story to life. REMARKABLE STORY: Indra Devi's life, which spanned the entire twentieth century, is a fascinating story that has gone largely untold--until now. YOGA: The yoga being practiced in gyms around the country today is far removed from its Indian roots. The book traces the evolution of yoga in America and will surely be of interest to anyone who studies yoga today. COMPS: Like Frances Osborne's The Bolter and Hannah Rothchild's The Baroness, Goldberg's book dives headfirst into the life of a glamorous, complicated woman; like Stefanie Syman's The Subtle Body and Robert Love's The Great Oom, The Goddess Pose depicts another angle on the spread of a worldwide phenomenon. AUTHOR: Goldberg is a senior contributing writer for The Nation and the author of two previous books, The Means of Reproduction and Kingdom Coming. She will be writing her first piece for The New Yorker this year. Praise for Kingdom Coming "An important work of investigative journalism." --Esquire "Goldberg's book will be recognized as the definitive guide to how a relatively tiny group of intellectuals, politicians, and conservatives religionists positioned themselves to take over America. This stuff is no joke." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Brooklyn, NY Illustrator Residence: Brooklyn, NY MICHELLE GOLDBERG is an investigative journalist and the author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, a New York Times best seller, which was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism; and The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World. A former senior writer at Newsweek/The Daily Beast and Salon.com, her work has also appeared in Glamour, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, The Guardian and many other publications, and she has taught at NYU's graduate school of journalism. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son. www.michellegoldberg.net Rights Territories: World Audio: Yes British: Yes Restriction: World Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: Yes Agency: LARRY WEISSMAN LLC Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles The Means of Reproduction/HC/Goldberg, M… The Means of Reproduction/TR/Goldberg, M… Kingdom Coming/Goldberg, Michelle/HC Kingdom Coming/Goldberg, Michelle/TR Comp Titles The Baroness/Rothschild, Hannah/HC The Baroness (Ebk)/Rothschild, Hannah/EL The Subtle Body/Syman, Stefanie/HC The Subtle Body/Syman, Stefanie/TR ISBN 978-1-101-87464-6 ISBN 9781594202087 9780143116882 9780393060942 9780393329766 ISBN 978-0-307-96198-3 978-0-307-96199-0 9780374236762 9780374532840 OS 5/15 On sale 04/09 03/10 05/06 04/07 On sale 3/13 3/13 06/10 05/11 Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: LARRY WEISSMAN Publisher Knopf Publisher Penguin Penguin W.W. Norton W.W. Norton Publisher Knopf Knopf Farrar, Straus and Giroux FSG Price Price $25.95 $16.00 $23.95 $14.95 Price $26.95/$32.00 Can. $13.99/$15.99 Can. $28.00 $17.00 The Life of Saul Bellow To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 Zachary Leader ON SALE 5/5/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-26883-9 $40.00/$46.00 Can. Category: Biography BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Literary BISAC 2: History - United States - 20th Century BISAC 3: Literary Criticism & Collections - American Page Count: 816 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 50/32 Carton Count: 12 Illustrations: 14 ILL IN TEXT + 16PP TK Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Jessica Purcell Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Jewish Press 4+-city Author Tour: Boston and New England, Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. National Print Advertising, including The New York Review of Books Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com, Chicagotribune.com, Salon, literary Jewish sites, and more Online Marketing Campaign, including: Saul Bellow fan page on Facebook Extensive Facebook Advertising Campaign Promotional Video using archival photos and materials Social Media Promotion Library Marketing Campaign Written with the cooperation of the Bellow estate, but by no means an authorized biography, the most comprehensive account ever of the most decorated writer in American history, winner of, among other awards, the Nobel Prize for Literature, three National Book Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize, who as a public intellectual engaged fully with the most pressing issues of his time. Based on much heretofore unavailable archival material and access to close relations, and extraordinary for the diligence of its scholarship, the unsparingness of its scope, and the engaging clarity of its prose, this booktraces not only Bellow's rise to literary eminence--from the roots of his family in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to his birth and childhood in Quebec, to his years in Chicago and at the University of Chicago, to right before the breakout commercial success of his novel Herzog in 1964--but also Bellow's life away from the desk, which was rich with incident. In the mornings he wrote; in the afternoons, he went out and got into trouble. Often this trouble involved women--spirited, intelligent, beautiful women. And more: throughout we are given fresh and fulsome readings of Bellow's work, from his early writings and debut novel Dangling Man to Herzog. TIMING: The Life of Saul Bellow will be published in the year that marks the centenary of Bellow's birth and the decennium of his death, a time ripe for reappraisals of Bellow's monumental achievement. SUBJECT: In addition to being an iconic, canonical man of letters, Bellow often found himself deeply embroiled in intellectual skirmishes and altercations regarding race, religion, foreign affairs, education, social policy, the state of the culture, the fate of the novel. ACCESS: The author has unprecedented access to unpublished Bellow material. AUTHOR: Zachary Leader is author of the highly praised The Life of Kingsley Amis (Pantheon, 4/2007), which was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: London ZACHARY LEADER is Professor of English Literature at Roehampton University in Great Britain, where he has resided for over thirty years, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Before his appointment at Roehampton, he taught at Caltech and the University of Chicago. He was educated at Northwestern, Cambridge, and Harvard universities, and is the author of Reading Blake's Songs, Writer's Block, Revision and Romantic Authorship, and The Life of Kingsley Amis, a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. He has edited Romantic Period Writings 1798-1832: An Anthology (with Ian Haywood), The Letters of Kingsley Amis, On Modern British Fiction, The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and Their Contemporaries (Oxford UP, 2009), and the Oxford Authors Shelley (with Michael O'Neill). Rights Territories: US, Canada, open market Audio: Yes British: No Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: THE WYLIE AGENCY INC. Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles The Life Of Kingsley Amis/Leader, Zachar… The Life Of Kingsley Amis/Leader, Zachar… Life Of Kingsley Amis (Ebk)/Leader, Zach… Comp Titles Updike/Begley, Adam/HC E. E. Cummings/Cheever, Susan/HC E. E. Cummings (Ebk)/Cheever, Susan/EL Norman Mailer: a Double Life / Lennon, J… Cheever/Bailey, Blake/HC ISBN 978-1-101-87467-7 ISBN 978-0-375-42498-4 9780810127593 978-0-307-49645-4 ISBN 9780061896453 978-0-307-37997-9 978-0-307-90867-4 9781439150191 978-1-4000-4394-1 OS 5/15 On sale 4/07 01/11 3/09 On sale 04/14 2/14 2/14 10/13 3/09 Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: No Special Markets: Agent: ANDREW WYLIE Publisher Knopf Publisher Pantheon Northwestern U. Press Pantheon Publisher Harper Pantheon Pantheon Simon & Schuster Knopf Price Price $39.95 $25.95 $20.99/$23.99 Can. Price $29.99 $26.95/$32.00 Can. $13.99/$15.99 Can. $40.00 $35.00/$40.00 Can. Ordinary Light A memoir Tracy K. Smith ON SALE 5/5/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-96266-9 $25.95/$30.00 Can. Category: Biography BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Women BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Literary Page Count: 352 Trim Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 Spine/Depth: 39/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Josefine Kals Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Online Interviews, Reviews and Literary Blog Coverage Women's Magazine and Blog Coverage African American Press Poetry Press Religious Press 10-city Author Tour: Atlanta, Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Oakland, Princeton, and San Francisco Extra Galleys with color covers Also available as an eGalley Print Advertising in Poets & Writers and Bookforum Major Online Advertising on NYTimes.com, Salon.com, NYMag.com, Philly.com, Boston.com, LATimes.com, SFChronicle.com, arts/culture sites, women's magazines, and Facebook Reader's Guide Outreach to memoir/poetry bloggers A feature of the Knopf Mother's Day Advertising Campaign Quotecard Promotion Library Marketing Campaign, including advertising on EarlyWord.com and LibraryJournal.com Jacket Blowups Available From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a deeply moving memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. Tracy K. Smith had a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest in a family of five children raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmother's home, she returns to California with a new sense of what it means for her to be black: from her mother's memories of picking cotton as a girl in her father's field for pennies a bushel, to her parents' involvement in the Civil Rights movement. These dizzying juxtapositions--between her family's past, her own comfortable present, and the promise of her future--will eventually compel her to act on her passions for love and "ecstatic possibility," and her desire to become a writer. But when her mother is diagnosed with cancer, which she says is part of God's plan, Tracy must learn a new way to love and look after someone whose beliefs she has outgrown. Written with a poet's precision and economy, this gorgeous, probing kaleidoscope of self and family offers us a universal story of belonging and becoming, and the ways we find and lose ourselves amid the places we call home. ACCLAIM: The narrative debut of a critics' darling whose name is instantly recognizable among reviewers. Parts of this memoir expand, in prose, upon the elegy for Smith's father that was the centerpiece of her most recent, Pulitzer-winning collection, Life on Mars, which was also a New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a New York Times Notable Book of 2011, and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. AUTHOR: Smith is a brilliant and charismatic presence who has lectured widely across the U.S. Her frankness about herself and her family in Ordinary Light will attract reader engagement, book-group discussion, and the review community. MOTHER-DAUGHTER STORY: The memoir, framed by the complex relationship between a mother and daughter, is perfect for Mother's Day. EVOCATIVE PROSE: Smith conjures her home and family with vivid, visceral imagery and a richly textured sense of place in a wholly accessible voice. She skillfully combines a child's and teenager's perceptions with adult retrospection, giving Ordinary Light the feel of a classic. Praise for Life on Mars "A poet of extraordinary range and ambition . . . Life on Mars first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled." --The New York Times Book Review "One of the finest poets writing right now." --The Miami Herald About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Princeton, NJ TRACY K. SMITH is the author of three acclaimed poetry collections, including Life on Mars, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and currently teaches at Princeton University. Rights Territories: US, Canada, open market Audio: Yes British: No Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: REGAL LITERARY INC. Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles Life on Mars: Poems/Smith, Tracy K./TR Duende: Poems/Smith, Tracy K./TR The Body's Question: Poems/Smith, Tracy… Comp Titles Traveling Mercies/Lamott, Anne/HC Traveling Mercies/Lamott, Anne/TR Traveling Mercies (Ebk)/Lamott, Anne/EL Color of Water, The/McBride, James/HC Color of Water, The/McBride, James/TR ISBN 978-0-307-96267-6 ISBN 9781555975845 9781555974756 9781555973919 ISBN 9780679442400 9780385496094 9780375409172 9781573220224 9781594481925 OS 5/15 On sale 5/11 5/07 10/03 On sale 1/99 2/00 9/00 1/96 2/06 Publisher Knopf Publisher Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Publisher Pantheon Anchor Anchor Riverhead Riverhead Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: MARKUS HOFFMANN Price Price $15.00 $16.00 $15.00 Price $23.00/$32.00 Can. $15.95/$18.95 Can. $11.99/$13.99 Can. $26.95 $16.00 The Quartet Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 Joseph J. Ellis ON SALE 5/5/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35340-3 $27.95/$33.00 Can. Category: History BISAC 1: History - United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) BISAC 2: History - United States - General BISAC 3: History - Revolutionary Page Count: 320 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 39/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Gabrielle Brooks Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features Coverage on History, Military, and Political Sites and Blogs Author Tour: Atlanta, Boston and New England, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Extra Galleys Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in The New York Times Book Review and The Atlantic Online Advertising, including NYTimes.com, WSJ.com, major news and history sites, and search terms Facebook Advertising Campaign Jacket Blowups Available The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--brilliantly told--of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal government with power over their individual autonomy. The Quartet is the story of this second American founding and of the men responsible--some familiar, such as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, and some less so, such as Robert Morris and Governeur Morris. It was these men who shaped the contours of American history by diagnosing the systemic dysfunctions created by the Articles of Confederation, manipulating the political process to force a calling of the Constitutional Convention, conspiring to set the agenda in Philadelphia, orchestrating the debate in the state ratifying conventions, and, finally, drafting the Bill of Rights to assure state compliance with the constitutional settlement. SUBJECT: The question of how we moved from revolution to the establishment of a political order is at the heart of understanding the creation of the United States of America. OPPORTUNITY: This book is a summa of many of Ellis's earlier books--a gripping, dramatic telling of the most crucial period between the end of the Revolution and the formation of the federal government. TARGET READERS: Ellis's own as well as those of Doris Kearns Goodwin, David McCullough, Stacy Schiff, Ron Chernow, Walter Isaacson. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Amherst, MA JOSEPH J. ELLIS is the author of many works of American history including Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; and American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, which won the National Book Award. He recently retired from his position as the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife and their youngest son. 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Divorcing Better Helping Children Survive the Storm of Separation Penelope Leach ON SALE 5/12/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-1-101-87404-2 $24.95/$28.95 Can. Category: Family BISAC 1: Family & Relationships - Divorce BISAC 2: Family & Relationships - Parenting BISAC 3: Social Science - Children'S Studies Page Count: 320 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 36/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erinn McGrath Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features Women's Magazine and Blog Coverage Parenting Magazines and Blog Coverage Online Advertising Campaign on NYTimes.com, WSJ.com, CNN.com, HuffingtonPost.com, ivillage.com, PsychologyToday, Salon.com, parenting and opinion sites Google interest targeting, divorced and separated women Facebook Advertising, targeting divorced and separated women and men Facebook page and Twitter feed QuoteGraphics Promotion, about Your Baby & Child and from Divorcing Better Outreach to parenting bloggers From the author of the best-selling Your Baby & Child: completely practical, comprehensively researched information and advice on how you can do what is best for your child when you are going through a separation or divorce. Using the latest scientific research in child development, Penelope Leach covers the various effects of divorce on children in five stages of life (infants, toddlers/preschoolers, primary school children, teenagers, college students/young adults), many of whom are far more deeply affected than previously thought. She explains recent studies which overturn many common assumptions, and which show, for example, that many standard custody arrangements for very young children are harmful to children's attachment to their parents and therefore to their brain development. There is evidence to suggest that the practice of having infants and toddlers spend regular overnights with non custodial parents may be damaging, and the practice of dividing children's time equally between the parents is seldom best for the children. Leach's advice is meticulously considered and exhaustive, covering everything from access, custody, and financial and legal considerations to managing separate sets of technology in two houses, and she includes the voices of both parents and children to illustrate her points. She explains why "mutual parenting" is the ideal way to co-parent after a divorce, and delineates ways to carry this out. And throughout, she makes clear that, most importantly in any separation or divorce, both parents must put their relationship to their children and responsiveness to their needs ahead of their feelings about each other. AUTHORITATIVE: Divided into five stages--infants, toddlers/preschoolers, primary school children, teenagers, college students/young adults. As always, Leach's advice for each stage is child-centered, opinionated, and fearlessly provocative in the interests of children, with just the right balance of toughness and warmth. MARKET: Fewer than half of today's children will celebrate their sixteenth birthday with their parents still together. This book is for separating mothers and fathers, for their extended families and prospective new partners, and for the professionals who support and advise them. SALES: Your Baby & Child has sold more than 1.25 million; Babyhood 175,000 copies Praise for Penelope Leach "Leach is pre-eminently the thinking parent's guide, encouraging not just sensible reflexes but subtle reflection . . . Articulate and impassioned." --The New York Times Book Review "A militant advocate of the young and, just as crucial, of their parents." --San Francisco Chronicle "One of the world's leading nurturers of parents." --T.Berry Brazelton About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Lewes, England PENELOPE LEACH is a research psychologist and one of the world's leading experts on child development. Her books include Your Baby & Child, Babyhood, and Children First. She is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a visiting professor at Winchester University and a Senior Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London and at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She has been vice president of the Health Visitors' Association, President and Chair of the Child Development Society, and President of the National Childminding Association. 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Price $20.00/$24.95 Can. Freedom of Speech Mightier Than the Sword David K. Shipler ON SALE 5/12/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-95732-0 $28.95/$34.00 Can. Category: History BISAC 1: Political Science - Civil Rights BISAC 2: Law - Civil Rights BISAC 3: Political Science - Democracy Page Count: 384 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 42/32 Carton Count: 12 From the longtime New York Times reporter, best-selling author, and Pulitzer Prize winner-- an expansive, timely assessment of the state of free speech in America. David Shipler's recent best seller, The Working Poor, cemented his place among our most trenchant social commentators. Now, he turns his keen, illuminating focus to another endangered American ideal: freedom of speech. Through selected accounts of First Amendment invocation and infringement, Shipler maps a rapidly shifting topography of political and cultural norms: parents in Michigan rallying to teachers vilified for their reading lists; conservative ministers risking their churches' tax-exempt status to preach politics from the pulpit; national security reporters using techniques more common in dictatorships to avoid leak prosecution; history teachers in Texas quietly navigating around a conservative curriculum to give students access to unapproved perspectives. Anchored in personal stories--sometimes shocking, sometimes absurd, sometimes dishearteningly familiar--but encompassing a theme as sweeping and essential as democracy itself, Freedom of Speech brilliantly reveals the triumphs and challenges of defining and protecting the boundaries of free expression in modern America. SALES TRACK RECORD: Shipler is a proven best-selling author; The Working Poor has more than 205,000 copies in print across all formats and continues to backlist in paperback. AUTHOR GRAVITAS: Shipler, a Pulitzer Prize winner (for Arab and Jew) and 2009 chair of the nonfiction Pulitzer committee, is a former New York Times reporter and bureau chief. EVERGREEN SUBJECT, RIPE FOR NEW ANALYSIS: Free speech has always been a lodestone of American culture and politics, but the ways in which we communicate having been transformed so dramatically in recent years--by the Internet as well as post-9/11 policy--it's high time for a reappraisal. GUARANTEED MEDIA APPEAL: Free speech controversies are never far from the headlines, and with his feature-ready focus on individuals--people who have either had their free speech shockingly curtailed or have done so to others--Shipler's book is poised to generate plenty of discussion (and controversy) and lead to course adoptions down the road. About the Author/Illustrator Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Jessica Purcell Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features Coverage on News and Political Sites and Blogs 4-city Author Tour: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. National Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books Online Advertising, including NYTimes.com, WashPost.com, WSJ.com, CNN.com, Reuters.com, Politico.com, Dailykos.com, TalkingPointsMemo.com, About.com Google Keyword Advertising Author Residence: Chevy Chase, MD Author Hometown: Orange, NJ DAVID K. SHIPLER reported for The New York Times from 1966 to 1988 in New York, Saigon, Moscow, Jerusalem, and Washington, D.C. He is the author of six previous books, including the best sellers Russia and The Working Poor, as well as Arab and Jew, which won the Pulitzer Prize. He has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and has taught at Princeton, American University, and Dartmouth. He writes online at The Shipler Report. 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Price $28.00 $27.00 $17.95/$21.50 Can. $27.00/$31.00 Can. England and Other Stories Graham Swift From the Booker Prize-winning author of Wish You Were Here and Last Orders, his first new book of short stories in nearly thirty years: beautifully crafted, character-driven stories that subtly illuminate the way a seemingly quotidian moment can reshape an entire life. Not just the name of the final story in this mesmerizing collection, "England" can be read as the subject of the collection as whole: a tapestry to which each story adds a subtle and telling thread. There is the barber who says "people are life," but is glad to be through with them at the end of every day . . . the two young gay women who find each other working at a sperm bank . . . a young bride in 1918 coping with her shell-shocked husband . . . the twelve-year-old boy weighing his desire to be part of a gang against his sense of wrong and right . . . a father having his last conversation with his soldier son in Afghanistan. Here are memories of first sex and long relationships; secrets revealed and kept; faith held and belief undermined; love, friendship, and kinship begun, ended, and renewed. Open-eyed, compassionate, and eloquent, these stories give us Graham Swift at his most piercingly observant of human behavior. ON SALE 5/19/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-1-101-87418-9 $25.95 Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary BISAC 2: Fiction - Short Stories (single author) BISAC 3: Fiction - Family Life Page Count: 256 Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4 Spine/Depth: 31/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erica Hinsley Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Print Features National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Extra Galleys Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in The New York Times Book Review Online Advertising Campaign on NYTimes.com, Guardian (U.S.), London Review of Books, SFChronicle.com, literary sites Social Media Promotion Jacket Blowups Available AUTHOR: A longtime house author and winner of the Booker Prize, Graham Swift is an international literary figure with a dedicated following and a strong backlist with Vintage. INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION: The U.K. edition was published in July 2014. RETURN TO FORM: Swift hasn't published a collection of short stories since early in his career. With England he reminds us what we've been missing. UK Praise for England "A coherent, powerful statement about English ways of life and death...This is a collection at once elegant, humble, and humane that makes you sad that the Man Booker overlooks the form" --Independent on Sunday "Swift's exquisite stories...are parables, cautionary tales, fables without a moral. What is not said is as important as what can't be told"--Independent "For all that many of his characters come close to being types, these stories assert forcibly the individual beneath the conventional exterior. That ability to colour forever the reader's perception...at the same time as articulating emotions too strong for the narrator's own words, is typical of Swift's gift one reason these stories resonate with such vibrancy" --Spectator Praise for Graham Swift "[Swift is] an artist with profound insight into human nature and the mature talent to deliver it . . . As every truly great novelist does [Swift] demonstrates that perfect coordination between style and story." --The Washington Post "Swift is a writer who clearly revels in dialogue and nuance." --The Boston Globe About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: London, England Author Hometown: London, England GRAHAM SWIFT lives in London and is the author of nine novels, including: Waterland, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won The Guardian Fiction Award, the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour; Ever After, which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; Last Orders, which was awarded the Booker Prize; The Light of Day; and, most recently, Wish You Were Here. He is also the author of one other collection of short stories, Learning to Swim, and Making an Elephant, a collection of nonfiction pieces. His work has been translated into more than Rights Territories: Audio: British: Restriction: US,OpnMkt(no EU/CAN) Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles Wish You Were Here/Swift, Graham/HC Wish You Were Here/Swift, Graham/TR Wish You Were Here (Ebk)/Swift, Graham/E… Making An Elephant/Swift, Graham/HC Making An Elephant/Swift, Graham/TR Making An Elephant (Ebk)/Swift, Graham/E… Tomorrow/Swift, Graham/HC Tomorrow/Swift, Graham/TR Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Translation: Agency: A.P. WATT LTD. ISBN 978-1-101-87420-2 ISBN 978-0-307-70012-4 978-0-307-74439-5 978-0-307-95766-5 978-0-307-27099-3 978-0-307-45575-8 978-0-307-27235-5 978-0-307-26690-3 978-0-307-38643-4 OS 5/15 On sale 4/12 1/13 4/12 6/09 5/10 6/09 9/07 9/08 Reprint: 1st Serial: Special Markets: Agent: CARADOC KING Publisher Knopf Publisher Knopf Vintage Vintage Knopf Vintage Vintage Knopf Vintage Price Price $25.00 $15.95 $11.99 $26.95 $16.95 $13.99 $23.95 $14.95 The Water Knife A novel Paolo Bacigalupi ON SALE 5/26/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35287-1 $25.95/$30.00 Can. Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary BISAC 2: Fiction - Thrillers - General BISAC 3: Fiction - Science Fiction - General Page Count: 384 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 42/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erinn B. Hartman Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Science Fiction Press and Online Coverage Science and Environmental Press and Online Coverage 7-city Author Tour: Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco Advance Reader's Edition Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in The New York Times Book Review Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, NewYorker.com, SFChronicle.com; literary sites, including Guernica, iO9, Electric Literature Major Facebook Advertising Campaign Quotegraphics Promotion through social media outlets Book Trailer, promoted on YouTube and social media Promotion on corporate verticals, including Suvudu Reader's Guide Promotions at BookCon & ComicCon Jacket Blowups Available The eagerly anticipated follow-up novel by the best-selling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Windup Girl: a scorching thriller born out of today's front-page headlines that preys on our worst fears about potential catastrophic failures awaiting us in our resource starved future. Think Roman Polanski's Chinatown as written by Michael Crichton. WATER IS POWER. In the very near future, the American Southwest is battling for water. Phoenix is covered in dust, desolate, and on the verge of total breakdown. Severe drought has demolished Texas. Into the fray, steps Angel Velasquez, a water knife working for Las Vegas water mogul Catherine Case. Case is in the Arcology business, opulent real estate in which lush, luxury living environments are raised out of dry earth. Zipping around in his tricked out Tesla, Angel "cuts" water for Case. Hijacking pumping stations or unearthing long forgotten water rights, he is a detective and mercenary rolled into one. When an informant shows up dead in Phoenix, Angel is sent to find out what has happened. It turns out that a major power play is taking place, and the race is on to find a long-forgotten deed between the state of Arizona and a Native American tribe that grants Phoenix the rights to enough water to rebuild itself but to crush Las Vegas in the process. A shady West Coast conglomerate is watching closely, as is Lucy Monroe, a Phoenix-based journalist, desperate to save the city she calls home. Angel and Lucy are natural enemies, but the two realize the only way they may stay alive is by joining forces. The missing piece to the puzzle is Maria, a fifteen-year-old Texas migrant, blessed with street smarts, but burdened by getting herself into something over her head. Pretty soon the body count begins to rise, alliances come in to question, and it looks like either Phoenix or Las Vegas is going down in flames. AUTHOR: The Windup Girl sold more than 220,000 copies (and counting) and won every major sci-fi award (worldwide). Paolo's YA novel Ship Breaker was nominated for a National Book Award. EAGERLY AWAITED: This is Paolo's first adult novel in six years. His fans are salivating for it. TRUE BREAKOUT NOVEL: This is the breakout thriller from a writer with an escalating track. For the first time Paolo will have true publicity, marketing, and editorial teams behind him for his adult fiction. HOT TOPIC: With headlines in The New York Times like "West's Drought and Growth Intensify Conflict Over Water Rights (Mar 16, 2014)," it is clear that Paolo has his finger on the pulse. As a former web editor/writer for High Country News (which covers the West's water issues), he knows of what he writes. DIVERSITY: With a diverse cast, The Water Knife is a true portrait of our social landscape. LOVE STORY:Not to get cliché here, but there's a pretty steamy love story woven in here too. RIGHTS: Rights have sold in Japan, France, Russia, Taiwan, Hungary, Spain, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, and Turkey. AMC: AMC has optioned The Windup Girl and ordered the writing of a pilot script. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Paonia, Colorado Author Hometown: Paonia, Colorado PAOLO BACIGALUPI is the author of The Windup Girl, as well as the YA novels Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities. A National Book Award Finalist, and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, John W. Campbell Award, and a three-time winner of the Locus Award, he lives in Colorado with his wife and son. Rights Territories: US, Canada, open market Audio: No British: No Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: No Agency: SCOVIL GALEN GHOSH LITERARY Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles The Doubt Factory (YA) / Bacigalupi, Pao… The Drowned Cities (YA) / Bacigalupi, Pa… The Drowned Cities (YA) / Bacigalupi, Pa… The Drowned Cities (YA) / Bacigalupi, Pa… Comp Titles Wool / Howey, Hugh / TR Wool / Howey, Hugh /EL Divergent / Roth, Veronica / HC Divergent / Roth, Veronica / TR ISBN 978-0-385-35289-5 ISBN 9780316220750 9780316056243 9780316056229 9780316202619 ISBN 9781476733951 9781469984209 9780062024022 9780062024039 OS 5/15 On sale 8/15 05/12 09/13 05/12 On sale 03/13 09/12 05/11 02/12 Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: Yes Special Markets: Agent: RUSSELL GALEN Publisher Knopf Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publisher Simon & Shuster Broad Reach Katherine Tegen Books Katherine Tegen Books Price Price $18.00 Price $15.99 $5.99 $17.99 $9.99 A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me Stories and a novella David Gates ON SALE 6/2/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35153-9 $24.95/$28.95 Can. Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Short Stories (single author) BISAC 2: Fiction - Literary BISAC 3: Fiction - Family Life Page Count: 320 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 39/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Jessica Purcell Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Print Features National Online Interviews, Reviews and Literary Blog Coverage Select Author Appearances Extra Galleys Also available as an eGalley Major Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, Newsweek.com, NewYorker.com, and literary sites Facebook Advertising Campaign Jacket Blowups Available These eleven stories, along with a masterful novella, mark the triumphant return of David Gates, whom New York magazine anointed "a true heir to both Raymond Carver and John Cheever." Gates's characters, young or old or neither, are well educated, broadly knowledgeable, often creative and variously accomplished, whether as a doctor or a composer, an academic or a journalist. And every one of them carries a full supply of the human condition: parents in assisted-living--or assisted-dying--facilities, too many or too few people in their families and marriages, the ties that bind a sometimes messy knot, age an implacable foe, impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. Terrifyingly self-aware, they refuse to go gently--even when they're going nowhere fast, in settings that range across the metropolitan and suburban Northeast to the countryside upstate and in New England. Relentlessly inventive, alternatively hilarious and tragic, always moving, this book proves yet again that Gates's stories, as The Boston Globe concluded, "have something for which many fiction writers would make a pact with any sort of devil--utter authenticity." AWARDS: Jernigan, his first novel, was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize, followed by Preston Falls (named by The New York Times one of the Best Eleven Books of the Year) and the collection The Wonders of the Invisible World, both of which were shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. REPUTATION: Acclaimed by both peers (including Joseph Heller, Frederick Exley, Joy Williams, Barry Hannah, Gail Caldwell, Jay McInerney, Nick Hornby) and our most esteemed critics (Michael Wood, Michiko Kakutani), Gates is highly influential among younger writers whose support we can count on, making this publication a... LITERARY EVENT: His first book in fifteen years will be heralded as such by reviewers and writers and booksellers across the country. SERIALIZATIONS: "A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me" has been selected by Jennifer Egan for The Best American Short Stories 2014. Other stories in this collection were previously published in GQ, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, and Granta. Acclaim for Jernigan (1991) "Astonishing . . . The minute he starts talking, Peter Jernigan grabs you by the lapels and compels you to listen to the sad-funny-tragic story of his life . . . Mr. Gates has created one of recent literature's most memorable anti-heroes, and in doing so, he has established himself as a novelist of the very first order." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times And for Wonders of the Invisible World (1999) "Gates demonstrates his pitch-perfect ear for the snappy conversations, reveries, and rattling inner monologues . . . that few writers are able (or willing) to confront with so much wit, sympathy, and lethal precision." --Francine Prose, Elle About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Missoula, MT Author Hometown: Middletown, CT DAVID GATES lives in Missoula, where he teaches at the University of Montana, and in Granville, New York, where he is associated with the Bennington Writing Seminars. A former Guggenheim Fellow, for many years he was a writer and editor at Newsweek, where he specialized in music and books. Rights Territories: World Audio: Yes British: Yes Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt Return indicator: Full copies only Book Club: Yes Translation: Yes Agency: INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE MANAGEM Other Editions E-book Hist/Prev Titles Wonders Of The Invisible World/Gates, Da… Wonders Of The Invisible World/Gates, Da… Wonders Of The Invisibl (Ebk)/Gates, Dav… Preston Falls/Gates, David/HC Preston Falls/Gates, David/TR Preston Falls (Ebk)/Gates, David/EL Jernigan/Gates, David/HC Jernigan/Gates, David/TR ISBN 978-0-385-35154-6 ISBN 9780679436683 9780679756446 978-0-307-76590-1 9780679436676 9780679756439 978-0-307-76591-8 9780679402374 9780679737131 OS 6/15 On sale 6/99 4/00 9/10 1/98 4/99 9/10 5/91 3/92 Publisher Knopf Publisher Knopf Vintage Vintage Knopf Vintage Vintage Knopf Vintage Reprint: Yes 1st Serial: No Special Markets: Agent: AMANDA URBAN Price Price $23.00/$35.00 Can. $15.00/$17.00 Can. $11.99/$11.99 Can. $25.00/$35.00 Can. $17.00/$23.00 Can. $13.99/$17.99 Can. $21.00/$27.50 Can. $15.00/$17.00 Can. Muse A novel Jonathan Galassi ON SALE 6/2/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35334-2 $24.95 Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary BISAC 2: Fiction - Biographical BISAC 3: Fiction - Satire Page Count: 272 Trim Size: 5-1/4 x 7-1/2 Spine/Depth: 32/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Paul Bogaards Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage 3+-city Author Tour: Boston and New England, New York, and Washington, D.C. Extra Galleys Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in The New York Times Book Review Online Advertising on NYTimes.com, The Millions, Guernica, Paris Review, Electric Literature, The Rumpus Facebook Advertising Campaign Giveaways on Shelf Awareness and GoodReads Reading Group Guide Featured in the Borzoi Reader e-Newsletter Jacket Blowups Available A sparkling fiction debut from the poet, translator, and FSG publisher that tells the story of the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions over the work of an iconic female poet. Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in New York, whose shabby offices on Union Square belie the treasures of its list. Thanks to his boss, the flamboyant Homer Stern, Paul learns well the ins and outs of the book world: how to work an agent over lunch and swim with the literary sharks at Frankfurt; how to marry flattery with criticism when combing over the manuscripts of brilliant, volatile authors. But though things can be shaky in the age of conglomerates and digital, Paul remains obsessed by one dazzling writer: poet Ida Perkins, whose outsize life and audacious verse have shaped America's contemporary literary landscape, and whose longtime publisher--also her cousin and erstwhile lover--happens to be Homer's biggest rival. When Paul at last meets Ida at her secluded Venetian palazzo, she entrusts him with her greatest secret--one that will change all of their lives forever. Enriched by juicy details only a quintessential insider could know, written with both satiric sharpness and sensitivity, Muse is a hilarious and touching love letter to the people who write, sell--and, above all, read--the books that shape our lives. DEBUT: Galassi's most recent work was an acclaimed poetry collection, Left-handed. His debut novel is a marvel, one that showcases a natural storytelling gift and the sophistication and narrative flair of someone who knows what makes books really work. CHARACTERS: Muse is a beguiling and entirely fictional triangle of love, ambition, and desire. But many of its characters were inspired by real-life writers and publishing figures; playing who's who will be a sport. AUDIENCE: All those entranced by the allure and nostalgia of books, including people who work or have worked in publishing, bookselling (both an independent bookseller and a mogul at an Amazon like retailer are characters), and writers: a reader's book in every sense. COMPS: Publishing can be a hot topic, e.g. in thrillers like Robert Galbraith's The Silkworm. Muse will also appeal to readers of Tom Rachman's The Imperfectionists. Unlike Hothouse, Boris Kachka's (nonfiction) history of FSG, this is a novel with richly drawn characters and an engrossing story; some may call it an update of Henry James's The Aspern Papers. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: New York, NY JONATHAN GALASSI is the president and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux and the author of three collections of poetry, as well as acclaimed translations of the Italian poets Eugenio Montale and Giacomo Leopardi. A former Guggenheim Fellow and poetry editor of The Paris Review, he also writes for The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and other publications. 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Price $25.00/$29.95 Can. $16.00 $9.99 The Jezebel Remedy A novel Martin Clark ON SALE 6/9/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35359-5 $26.95/$32.00 Can. Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Legal BISAC 2: Fiction - Thrillers - General BISAC 3: Fiction - Humorous Page Count: 400 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 44/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Gabrielle Brooks Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle National Print Features National Online Interviews Men's Magazine and Blog Coverage Legal Magazine and Blog Coverage Mystery Press 10-city Author Tour: Atlanta, Charlottesville, Jackson, Nashville, Oxford, Raleigh/Durham, Richmond, Roanoke, Washington, D.C., and Winston-Salem Extra Galleys Also available as an eGalley Online Advertising Campaign on NYTimes.com, OxfordAmerican.com, Jezebel, EW.com, regional newspapers online Goodreads Advertising and Giveaways Facebook Advertising Campaign Billboard in Roanoke, VA Feature of The Borzoi Reader e-Newsletter Jacket Blowups Available Martin Clark, "the new standard by which other works of legal fiction should be judged," now delivers his breakthrough novel. Lisa and Joe Stone, married for twenty years and sole partners in their small law firm in Henry County, Virginia, handle less than glamorous cases, whether domestic disputes, personal injury settlements, or a plethora of complaints from their cantankerous client Lettie VanSandt ("eccentric" by some accounts, "certifiable" by others). When she dies in a freakish incident, the Stones think it's within the realm of possibility that she was cooking meth in her trailer. But details soon emerge that lead them to question how "accidental" Lettie's demise actually was, and settling her peculiar estate becomes endlessly complicated. Before long, the Stones find themselves embroiled in a corporate conspiracy that will require all of their legal prowess--not to mention some serious guts--for them to survive. Meanwhile, Lisa is making secret, herculean efforts to shield Joe from an egregious error that she would give anything to erase entirely, even as his career--and her own--hangs in the balance. In The Jezebel Remedy, Clark gives us a stunning portrait of a marriage, a gripping courtroom drama, and a relentlessly entertaining story that is full of inventions, shocks, and understanding. UNIQUE AUTHOR BIO: A circuit-court judge in Virginia for nearly twenty years (and the youngest ever appointed there), Clark has a day job that provides an abundance of material and experience for his vocation as a novelist. THE PRAISE OF PEERS AND COMPARISONS TO OTHER WRITERS: The former includes Elizabeth Strout, David Baldacci, Haven Kimmel, James Crumley, and Kaye Gibbons, while the latter list is even more impressive: Flannery O'Connor, John Grisham (over and over), Harry Crews, Nick Hornby, Thomas McGuane, Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, Tom Robbins, Scott Turow, even John Kennedy Toole. CRITICAL RECEPTION: From the first book, astonishing and truly overwhelming in retrospect, even to his editor. See quote below for a splendid overview from the august Dwight Garner of The New York Times. PROMOTION: this is something Clark has also mastered, with clever marketing schemes (T-shirt giveaways, billboards, you name it) and the devotion of independent booksellers, and he's tireless on the road. A FEMALE LEAD: Lisa Stone is his first, and an amazing, compelling creation. "Clark's [first novel] is arguably the funniest legal thriller ever written--a book that made Clark seem like not only the thinking man's John Grisham but, maybe better, the drinking man's John Grisham...The legal thriller has become an uptight and moribund genre, and this is what made Clark's novel feel so winning: it cheerfully, and comprehensively, failed its sobriety test...You can count on Clark for extreme situations and fresh, perfectly salted prose... I'd say Clark wrote Plain Heathen Mischief while jacked on Elmore Leonard, The Scarlet Letter, and a pile of John Prine albums. 'Mischief' is the perfect word for it."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Stuart, VA Educated at Davidson College and the University of Virginia School of Law, MARTIN CLARK lives in Stuart, Virginia, where he is either on the bench or writing. 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The Governor's Wife A novel Michael Harvey ON SALE 6/16/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-307-95864-8 $24.95/$28.95 Can. Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators BISAC 2: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled BISAC 3: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural Page Count: 256 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 31/32 Carton Count: 12 In the latest installment in Michael Harvey's beloved Michael Kelly series, Chicago's favorite Ovid-reading, gun-toting private investigator takes on Illinois' first family in a blistering thriller that charts the border where ambition ends and evil begins. It's been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to thirty-eight years in prison on corruption charges. P.I. Michael Kelly is sitting in his office when he gets an anonymous email offering to pay him nearly a quarter million dollars if he will find Perry, no questions asked. Kelly's investigation begins with the woman Ray Perry left behind--his wife, Marie. Ostracized by her former friends and hounded by the feds, Marie tells Kelly she has no idea where her husband is. Like everyone else, Kelly doesn't believe her. As he hunts for her husband, Kelly begins to unwind Marie Perry's past. What he finds is a woman who turns out to be even more intriguing than her husband, with her own deeply complicated reasons for standing by him. Everyone in Chicago has secrets, including the governor's wife. Some of them she shared with her husband. Some of them she kept to herself. And some of them could get Michael Kelly killed. The Governor's Wife is a gimlet-eyed look at the intersection of the political and the personal, at the perils of trusting even those closest to us and the collateral damage of our highest aspirations. Stylish, knock-out suspense from a modern master. RETURN TO SERIES: Harvey's last novel, The Innocence Game, was a stand alone thriller that did not feature his best-known and best-loved character, the inimitable classics scholar-turned-private-investigator Michael Kelly. TITLE: The novel takes its title from the irresistibly cunning figure who holds the key to the novel's central mystery--how did the governor of Chicago, convicted of wire fraud and racketeering, disappear from the courthouse without a trace after his sentencing? From The Senator's Wife and The Good Wife to Ahab's Wife and The Silent Wife, complex female spouses have a proven appeal, and provide a terrific title and hook for this most expert of Harvey's novels. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Chicago, IL Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erinn McGrath Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Print Features National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Mystery Press Select Author Appearances Extra galleys (with color covers) Also available as an eGalley Print Advertising in the Chicago Tribune and The Strand Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, USAToday.com, EW.com, chicagotribune.com, chicagoreader.com, Boston.com Facebook Advertising Campaign Outreach to mystery bloggers Jacket Blowups Available Author Hometown: Boston, MA MICHAEL HARVEY is the author of The Innocence Game, The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor, The Third Rail, and We All Fall Down, and is also a journalist and documentary producer. His work has received numerous national and international awards, including multiple news Emmys, two Primetime Emmy nominations, and an Academy Award nomination. He holds a law degree with honors from Duke University, a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University, and a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, in classical languages from Holy Cross College. He lives, of course, in Chicago. 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In the Country Stories Mia Alvar ON SALE 6/16/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-0-385-35281-9 $24.95/$28.95 Can. Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Short Stories (single author) BISAC 2: Fiction - Cultural Heritage BISAC 3: Fiction - Literary Page Count: 288 Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4 Spine/Depth: 34/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Erica Hinsley Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Print Features National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Select Author Appearances Extra Galleys Also available as an eGalley National Print Advertising in Harper's and Bookforum Online Advertising Campaign, including Salon; literary sites including The Millions, Guernica, Paris Review, Electric Literature, The Rumpus; GoodReads and Facebook GoodReads and Facebook Giveaways A powerful, globe-trotting debut short-story collection from an exciting new writer--vivid, character-driven stories about Filipinos from every walk of life. Mia Alvar's stunning debut gives us a vivid, insightful picture of the Filipino diaspora: exiles and emigrants and wanderers uprooting their families to begin new lives in the Middle East and America--and, sometimes, turning back. One man smuggles drugs from his pharmacy in New York to Manila for his ailing father, only to discover an alarming truth about his mother. A woman living in Bahrain faces a challenge that compels her to question her marriage. A college student in Manila struggling to write fiction knows that her brother, who has gone abroad to make money, is the one living a life that stories are made of. The novella-length title story follows the unexpected fates of a journalist and a nurse during the 1970s labor strikes in Manila. Exploring the universal experience of loss, displacement, and the longing to connect across borders both real and imagined, In the Country speaks to the heart of everyone who has ever searched for a place to call home. FORTHCOMING NOVEL: We have already signed up Mia's first novel, forthcoming in 2017. It builds on the characters introduced in the title story. AUTHOR: Mia's work has appeared in One Story, The Missouri Review, FiveChapters, and The Cincinnati Review, and she has been cited for distinction in The Best American Short Stories, and nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. COMPS: Rajesh Parameswaran's I Am an Executioner, Nam Le's The Boat, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck, Julie Orringer's How to Breathe Underwater. BOOK CLUB/READING GROUP: These are terrific, accessible, character-driven stories that stunningly evoke their locales. Touching on themes of loss and upheaval that will appeal to readers of all backgrounds, these piercing stories are well-suited for book clubs. About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: New York City, NY Author Hometown: Manila, Philippines MIA ALVAR was born in Manila in 1978 and grew up in Bahrain and New York City. She received an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University and a B.A. from Harvard College. Her short fiction has appeared in One Story, The Missouri Review, FiveChapters, and The Cincinnati Review among other publications; has been cited for distinction in The Best American Short Stories; and has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. She has received grants and residencies from Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Blue Mountain Center for the Arts, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and Sarah Lawrence College. Mia is currently a writer-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. 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Category: Film BISAC 1: Performing Arts - Film - General BISAC 2: Performing Arts - Film - History & Criticism BISAC 3: Performing Arts - Film - Guides & Reviews Page Count: 320 Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4 Spine/Depth: 36/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Kathryn Zuckerman Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Online Interviews Film Magazine and Blog Coverage Print Advertising in The Hollywood Reporter Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com, LATimes.com, HollywoodReporter.com, NewYorker.com, SFChronicle.com, Life.Time.com, Newsweek.com, Fandango, IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes Mobile Advertising on NYTimes.com, LATimes.com, USAToday.com Extensive Online Promotion, including Facebook quizzes and Twitter Cards Jacket Blowups Available From a legendary film critic and movie fan extraordinaire, the highlights reel of a life spent at the movies. Richard Schickel has been going to the movies for more than seven decades (reviewing them since 1965), and, in that time, he's seen, by his own count, somewhere in the neighborhood of 18,750 films. Call it "obsession," "lunacy," or a "grand passion" (Schickel grants all three), but there's no one who knows film better than Schickel. Now he gives us the ultimate summing up: a history of film as he's seen--and lived--it, a tour of his favorites, a master class in what makes a film soar or flop. Schickel's no-holds-barred, often raucously irreverent opinions can range from panning classics (Gone with the Wind) to defending bombs (A.I.) to spotlighting forgotten treasures. Buster Keaton, Ingrid Bergman, Bonnie and Clyde, Star Wars, Stanley Kubrick, The Matrix--Schickel reveals all the films and the forces behind them that have kept him coming back for more. An essential addition to any cinephile's library, Keepers is the curation of a brilliant connoisseur and critic, but more than that, it's a love letter to film from one of its most dedicated fans. EXPERT AUTHOR: Nobody knows movies better than Richard Schickel: a critic at Life from 1965 to 1972 and Time from 1972 to 2009, the prizewinning author of 37 previous books, and a longtime director and producer of television documentaries. He now writes for Truthdig.com. CRITICAL AND SALES SUCCESS: Schickel's Clint Eastwood: A Biography (1998) has 66,453 copies in print across all formats (more than 52,000 hardcovers alone), and his books on figures such as Walt Disney and D. W. Griffith remain landmark works on their subjects. A UNIQUE CRITICAL VOICE: not just another AFI's 100 copycat, Schickel's idiosyncratic taste and bold judgments cast him in the mold of David Thomson and Roger Ebert. Series Overview Praise for Clint Eastwood: A Biography "Exhilarating . . . substantial, insightful, and right." --Newsday "Authoritative . . . highly nuanced . . . gives the reader a palpable sense of Mr. Eastwood's career." --The New York Times "Entertaining and penetrating . . . as unpretentious and involving as any Eastwood movie." --The Philadelphia Inquirer About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Los Angeles, CA Author Hometown: Milwaukee, WI RICHARD SCHICKEL is a film critic, documentary filmmaker, and movie historian who has written almost forty books, including Clint Eastwood: A Biography, Intimate Strangers, and The Disney Version. His thirty documentaries include Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin; Woody Allen: A Life in Film; and Shooting War, about combat cameramen in World War II. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was awarded the British Film Institute Book Prize, the Maurice Bessy Prize for film criticism, and the William K. Everson Award for his work in film history. He now writes for Truthdig.com. 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Price $35.00 $40.00 $39.95/$45.00 Can. $29.95/$34.00 Can. The Gods of Tango A novel Carolina De Robertis ON SALE 7/7/2015 KNOPF HARDCOVER 978-1-101-87449-3 $26.95/$32.00 Can. Category: Fiction BISAC 1: Fiction - Hispanic & Latino BISAC 2: Fiction - Coming Of Age BISAC 3: Fiction - Romance - Lesbian Page Count: 384 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Spine/Depth: 42/32 Carton Count: 12 Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Brittany Morrongiello Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features National Online Interviews, Reviews, and Literary Blog Coverage Women's Magazine and Blog Coverage Select Author Appearances Extra Galleys Also available as an eGalley Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books Online Advertising Campaign, including NYTimes.com; SFChronicle.com; sites of Latino interest, tango, Hispanic literature; the litbreaker network Facebook and GoodReads Advertising and Promotion Giveaways through Shelf Awareness and GoodReads Reading Group Guide Book Club Promotion, including feature on Vintage Reading Group Center and ReadingGroupGuides.com Jacket Blowups Available From one of the leading lights of contemporary Latin American literature--a lush, lyrical, deeply moving story of a young woman whose passion for the early sounds of tango becomes a force of profound and unexpected change. February 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, carrying only a small trunk and her father's cherished violin, leaves her Italian village for a new home, and a new husband, in Argentina. Arriving in Buenos Aires, she discovers that he has been killed, but she remains: living in a tenement, without friends or family, on the brink of destitution. Still, she is seduced by the music that underscores life in the city: tango, born from lower-class immigrant voices, now the illicit, scandalous dance of brothels and cabarets. Leda eventually acts on a long-held desire to master the violin, knowing that she can never play in public as a woman. She cuts off her hair, binds her breasts, and becomes "Dante," a young man who joins a troupe of tango musicians bent on conquering the salons of high society. Now, gradually, the lines between Leda and Dante begin to blur, and feelings that she has long kept suppressed reveal themselves, jeopardizing not only her musical career, but her life. Richly evocative of place and time, its prose suffused with the rhythms of the tango, its narrative at once resonant and gripping, this is De Robertis's most accomplished novel yet. CRITICAL ACCLAIM: With the publication of Carolina De Robertis's prior novels, she has established herself of one of the outstanding voices of Latin American literature. She's already garnered the reviews to take her place on the best seller lists next to Isabel Allende, Gabriel García Márquez, and Junot Díaz (see quotes). FIRST SERIAL: An excerpt of the novel will appear in McSweeney's, in coordination with our publication. PUBLICITY: We will host a series of luncheons with select booksellers and reviewers. A WRITER'S WRITER: De Robertis has a formidable fan in Junot Díaz ("an extraordinarily courageous writer who only gets better with each book"). She was recently featured in the short story collection of immigrant voices alongside the likes of Edwidge Danticat and Yiyun Li. We will aggressively pursue advance quotes from other authors. AN ENDURING SUBJECT: Public interest in the tango is ever present and growing; there are entire Web sites, festivals, movies, plays (Tango Argentino was a Broadway smash hit), and classes around the country dedicated to this captivating music and dance. Praise for Perla "A gripping journey that's as heart-wrenching as it is healing... De Robertis's writing from beginning to end hypnotizes with poetic, crushing beauty." --Minneapolis Star Tribune About the Author/Illustrator Author Residence: Oakland, CA CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS was raised in England, Switzerland, and California by Uruguayan parents. She is the author of two previous novels, Perla and The Invisible Mountain (a Best Book of 2009 according to the San Francisco Chronicle, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Booklist), the recipient of Italy's Rhegium Julii Prize, and a 2012 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has spent the past year living in Uruguay, but her permanent home is in Oakland, CA. 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