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Nan A. Talese was established in 1990 and has built a distinguished list of fiction and nonfiction writers, including Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan. It is distinguished both by new authors of fiction and nonfiction, as well as the authors Mrs. Talese has published for many years. Among its writers are Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, Jennifer Egan, and Ian McEwan. Read more
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The Healing by Jonathan Odell
“A terrific novel that will take its place in the distinguished pantheon of Southern fiction. Like The Help, that show-stopping work by Kathryn Stockett, The Healing is another Mississippi-born work of art and Odell’s Polly Shine is a character for the ages.”
—Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides and South of Broad
Indie Next List March 2012: The Healing
We’re thrilled to share the news that The American Booksellers Association has selected Jonathan Odell’s enchanting and empowering novel The Healing for the March 2012 Indie Next List. Click through to find out more!
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The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth
“Deeply moving. . . . Unsworth brings his characters together with authority and grace. As with all of his historical novels, he conveys the sights, sounds and smells of life in another century without the slightest hint of pedantry.”
—The Wall Street Journal
The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung
Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history.
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Video: Author Jonathan Odell on his Inspiration for The Healing
On sale February 21st, The Healing is the kind of novel readers can’t put down — and can’t wait to recommend once they’ve finished. Watch author Jonathan Odell discuss the real people who inspired the book.
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Vogue Picks Best Books of 2011: Includes Anne Roiphe's Art and Madness
“The greatest book about 1950s literary circles since Joyce Johnson’s Minor Characters, Anne Roiphe’s Art and Madness recalls the novelist’s lost years of Paris Review parties and late nights at Elaine’s, years in which she set aside her own ambitions to become a handmaiden of sorts to male artistic genius—at tremendous personal cost.”
—Vogue
Superb Holiday Gifts
Whether you’re searching for a gift for an armchair traveler or a space traveler, we have you covered this holiday season. Renowned authors Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, and Peter Ackroyd have books to suit every taste.
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Margaret Atwood Illustrations Featured in New eBook: See Them Here!
Here are just a few of the illustrations drawn by Margaret Atwood that are featured exclusively in the eBook edition of her latest release, In Other Worlds.
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London Under by Peter Ackroyd
London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, imaginative, oozing short study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheaters to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts, and modern tube stations. The depths below are hot, warmer than the surface, and this book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures, real and fictional, that dwell in darkness. To go under London is to penetrate history, to enter a hidden world.
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In Other Worlds by Margaret Atwood
At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as “science fiction,” a relationship that has been lifelong. For all readers who have loved The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must.
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