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A spine-tingling, intricate tale of love, betrayal, and psychological gamesmanship in the wake of 9/11.Henry, a New Yorker left destitute by circumstance and obsession, is plucked from vagrancy by a shadowy outfit whose primary business is arranging for staged murders of anxiety-ridden clients unhinged by the “events downtown” and seeking to experience—and live through—their own carefully executed ... Read more

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A spine-tingling, intricate tale of love, betrayal, and psychological gamesmanship in the wake of 9/11.Henry, a New Yorker left destitute by circumstance and obsession, is plucked from vagrancy by a shadowy outfit whose primary business is arranging for staged murders of anxiety-ridden clients unhinged by the “events downtown” and seeking to experience—and live through—their own carefully executed
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Indiana, Indiana

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A mesmerizing, poignant saga of love and loss firmly grounded in the Midwestern landscape by National Book Award finalist Laird Hunt.On a dark and lovely winter night, Noah Summers sits before a roaring fire, drifting between sleep and recollection, trying to make sense of a lifetime of psychic visions and his family’s tumultuous history on an Indiana farmstead. Decades have passed since Noah ... Read more

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A mesmerizing, poignant saga of love and loss firmly grounded in the Midwestern landscape by National Book Award finalist Laird Hunt.On a dark and lovely winter night, Noah Summers sits before a roaring fire, drifting between sleep and recollection, trying to make sense of a lifetime of psychic visions and his family’s tumultuous history on an Indiana farmstead. Decades have passed since Noah
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The Impossibly

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Surrealism meets noir in this brilliant, witty, chilling novel of international espionage.When the anonymous narrator botches an assignment from the clandestine organization that employs him, everyone in his life becomes a participant in his punishment. In the end, he is called out of retirement for a final assignment: to seek and identify his own assassin. ... Read more

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Surrealism meets noir in this brilliant, witty, chilling novel of international espionage.When the anonymous narrator botches an assignment from the clandestine organization that employs him, everyone in his life becomes a participant in his punishment. In the end, he is called out of retirement for a final assignment: to seek and identify his own assassin.
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Zorrie

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Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction)“A virtuosic portrait.” –New York Times Book Review“A tender, glowing novel.” –Anthony Doerr, Guardian, “Best Books of the Year”“Pages that are polished like jewels.” –Scott Simon, NPR, "Books We Love""Lit from within.” -Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, “Best Fiction Books of the Year”"A touching, tight... ... Read more

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Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction)“A virtuosic portrait.” –New York Times Book Review“A tender, glowing novel.” –Anthony Doerr, Guardian, “Best Books of the Year”“Pages that are polished like jewels.” –Scott Simon, NPR, "Books We Love""Lit from within.” -Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, “Best Fiction Books of the Year”"A touching, tight...
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Office At Night

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Edward Hopper’s painting "Office at Night" is open to endless interpretation. In this collaborative novella, Kate Bernheimer and Laird Hunt borrow from his practice of improvising on the facts” of observation to create a work of art, imagining the lives of its characters: stenographer Marge Quinn and her boss, the sometimes painter Abraham Chelikowsky. ... Read more

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Edward Hopper’s painting "Office at Night" is open to endless interpretation. In this collaborative novella, Kate Bernheimer and Laird Hunt borrow from his practice of improvising on the facts” of observation to create a work of art, imagining the lives of its characters: stenographer Marge Quinn and her boss, the sometimes painter Abraham Chelikowsky.
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In the House in the Dark of the Woods

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The eerie, disturbing story of one of our perennial fascinations -- witchcraft in colonial America -- wrapped up in a lyrical novel of psychological suspense."Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods." In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law-abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps she's been ... Read more

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The eerie, disturbing story of one of our perennial fascinations -- witchcraft in colonial America -- wrapped up in a lyrical novel of psychological suspense."Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods." In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law-abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps she's been
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This Wide Terraqueous World

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Haunting essays from acclaimed author Laird Hunt balance intimate remembrance with an examination of the writing life.In this new collection of nonfiction from the celebrated author of Zorrie, Laird Hunt uses fiction as an inspiration, a tool, even an obsession, employing its methods to get to the heart of experience. The “sizzling” work of Jane Bowles colors his wanderings through Palermo, while ... Read more

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Haunting essays from acclaimed author Laird Hunt balance intimate remembrance with an examination of the writing life.In this new collection of nonfiction from the celebrated author of Zorrie, Laird Hunt uses fiction as an inspiration, a tool, even an obsession, employing its methods to get to the heart of experience. The “sizzling” work of Jane Bowles colors his wanderings through Palermo, while
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Neverhome

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She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. *Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman and a traitor to the American cause.Laird Hunt's ... Read more

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She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. *Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman and a traitor to the American cause.Laird Hunt's
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Kind One

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The powerful antebellum tale of three women and their evolving relationship as master, sister, friend, and captive.As a teenage girl, Ginny marries Linus Lancaster, her mother’s second cousin, and moves to his Kentucky pig farm “ninety miles from nowhere.” In the shadows of the lush Kentucky landscape, Ginny discovers the empty promises of Lancaster’s “paradise”—a place where the charms of her ... Read more

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The powerful antebellum tale of three women and their evolving relationship as master, sister, friend, and captive.As a teenage girl, Ginny marries Linus Lancaster, her mother’s second cousin, and moves to his Kentucky pig farm “ninety miles from nowhere.” In the shadows of the lush Kentucky landscape, Ginny discovers the empty promises of Lancaster’s “paradise”—a place where the charms of her
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Ray of the Star

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An atmospherically intense love story and a thrilling, fantastical tale of lost souls in peril.Set in a dream-like European city reminiscent of Barcelona, along a boulevard teeming with artists who perform as living statues, comes the beautiful and frightening story of a man running from his past, a woman consumed by grief, and the forces that pursue them both. As the protagonists reckon with ... Read more

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An atmospherically intense love story and a thrilling, fantastical tale of lost souls in peril.Set in a dream-like European city reminiscent of Barcelona, along a boulevard teeming with artists who perform as living statues, comes the beautiful and frightening story of a man running from his past, a woman consumed by grief, and the forces that pursue them both. As the protagonists reckon with
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Float Up, Sing Down

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Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLaird Hunt's “revelatory (NYT)” story collection capturing one summer's day in the Indiana community where the beloved National Book Award Finalist Zorrie bloomed.Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her mother she was going to the Galaxy Swirl, but that's... ... Read more

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Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLaird Hunt's “revelatory (NYT)” story collection capturing one summer's day in the Indiana community where the beloved National Book Award Finalist Zorrie bloomed.Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her mother she was going to the Galaxy Swirl, but that's...
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Burn the Blue Water

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From National Book Award finalist Laird Hunt, a novel of love and resistance inspired by the real-life events of The Battle for Crete-for readers of Michael Ondaatje and Sebastian Barry.On the third Tuesday in May, 1941, the skies over Crete filled with German planes and out came the parachutes. So began the first large-scale airborne invasion of World War II. Against this brutal onslaught, the ... Read more

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From National Book Award finalist Laird Hunt, a novel of love and resistance inspired by the real-life events of The Battle for Crete-for readers of Michael Ondaatje and Sebastian Barry.On the third Tuesday in May, 1941, the skies over Crete filled with German planes and out came the parachutes. So began the first large-scale airborne invasion of World War II. Against this brutal onslaught, the
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