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Bij zijn geboorte heeft Max het uiterlijk van een oud, stervend schepsel. Hij groeit op als andere kinderen, maar te oordelen naar zijn fysieke verschijning lijkt zijn leeftijd achterwaarts te gaan. Tegen de historische achtergrond van San Francisco aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw, volgen uit Max' leven en zijn bekentenissen vragen over het karakter van de tijd, over schijn en werkelijkheid en over de liefde.

You are a failed novelist approaching fifty when a wedding invitation arrives: your long-time boyfriend is marrying someone else. Saying yes feels awkward, while saying no seems like defeat. On your desk are numerous literary invitations from around the globe, prompting the question: how do you skip town? The answer is to accept them all. Thus begins an adventurous journey for Arthur Less, taking him to Mexico, Italy, Germany, Morocco, India, and Japan, putting distance between him and the issues he avoids. Along the way, Arthur nearly falls in love in Paris, faces danger in Berlin, escapes a sandstorm in Morocco, and finds himself unexpectedly at a Christian retreat in India. He arrives in Japan too late for the cherry blossoms, encountering a mix of science fiction fans, academics, and exes. As he navigates these experiences, he turns fifty, reflecting on the second phase of his life, which he feels slipping away. Amidst the chaos, he will confront his first love and his last. This narrative is a love story, a satire of the American abroad, and a meditation on time and the heart, showcasing a writer at the height of his craft, exploring our shared human experience.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less. 'A riveting and fascinating novel full of stunning observations and brilliant moments of truth and sympathy.' Colm Tóibín It is 1953, and in San Francisco Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself caring for both her husband's fragile health and her polio-afflicted son. Then one morning someone from her husband's past appears on their doorstep. His arrival throws all the certainties by which Pearlie has lived into doubt, and is brought face to face with the desperate measures people are prepared to take to escape the confines of their lives.

A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Andrew Sean Greer, "an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy" (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

For Arthur Less, life is surprisingly good: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again as he accepts a series of literary gigs that send him on a crisscrossing adventure across the US. Less roves across the "Mild Mild West," across the South and to his mid-Atlantic birthplace, with an ever-changing posse of writerly characters and his trusty duo - a human-like black pug, Dolly, and a rusty, camper van nicknamed Rosina. He grows a handlebar mustache, ditches his signature gray suit, and disguises himself in the bolero-and-cowboy-hat costume of a true "Unitedstatesian" ... with varying levels of success, as he continues to be mistaken for either a Dutchman, the wrong writer, or, worst of all, a "bad gay." We can not, however, escape ourselves-even across deserts, bayous, and coastlines. From his estranged father and strained relationship with Freddy, to the reckoning he experiences in confronting his privilege, Arthur Less must eventually face his personal demons. With all of the irrepressible wit and musicality that made LESS a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning, must-read breakout book, Less Is Lost is a profound and joyous novel about the enigma of life in America, the riddle of love, and the stories we tell along the way

From Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author Andrew Sean Greer comes The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, a rapturously romantic story of a woman who finds herself transported to the “other lives” she might have lived. After the death of her beloved twin brother and the abandonment of her long-time lover, Greta Wells undergoes electroshock therapy. Over the course of the treatment, Greta finds herself repeatedly sent to 1918, 1941, and back to the present. Whisked from the gas-lit streets and horse-drawn carriages of the West Village to a martini-fueled lunch at the Oak Room, in these other worlds, Greta finds her brother alive and well—though fearfully masking his true personality. And her former lover is now her devoted husband…but will he be unfaithful to her in this life as well? Greta Wells is fascinated by her alter egos: in 1941, she is a devoted mother; in 1918, she is a bohemian adulteress. In this spellbinding novel by Andrew Sean Greer, each reality has its own losses, its own rewards; each extracts a different price. Which life will she choose as she wrestles with the unpredictability of love and the consequences of even her most carefully considered choices?

It's 1965, on a small island in the South Pacific, a group of astronomers gather to witness the passing of a comet, but when a young boy dies during a meteor shower, the lives of the scientists and their loved ones change in subtle yet profound ways.

With the help of guest editor Adam Thirlwell (author of Kapow!, Visual Editions), Issue 42 is a monumental experiment in translated literature—twelve stories taken through six translators apiece, weaving into English and then back out again, gaining new twists and textures each time, just as you'd expect a Kierkegaard story brought into English by Clancy Martin and then sent into Dutch by Cees Nooteboom before being made into English again by J. M. Coetzee to do. With original texts by Kafka and Kharms and Kenji Miyazawa, and translations by Lydia Davis and David Mitchell and Zadie Smith (along with others by John Banville and Tom McCarthy and Javier Marías, and even more by Shteyngart and Eugenides and A. S. Byatt), this will be an issue unlike anything you've seen before—altered, echoing narratives in the hands of the finest writers of our time, brought to you in a book that looks like nothing else we’ve ever done.

"Myslíme si, že ty, které milujeme, známe.“ Touto myšlenkou začíná spletitá a zničující cesta Pearlie Cookové za odpovědí na tajemnou otázkou, zda jsme skutečně schopni poznat člověka, kterého milujeme - svého životního partnera. Pearlie je oddanou ženou v domácnosti a žije se svým manželem a synem v nově vybudované čtvrti na okraji San Francisca. Nečekaná sobotní návštěva neznámého muže změní celý její život. Všechny Pearliny životní jistoty jsou náhle ohroženy. Co od ní onen cizinec chce? Co jí vlastně za svých sto tisíc dolarů nabízí? Zná vůbec svého vlastního muže? Po celých šest měsíců se Pearlie snaží konečně pochopit svět, který ji obklopuje mimo bezpečný domov. Její příběh není jen uvažováním nad zákonitostmi lásky a vztahu, ale také nad následky válek. Příběh jednoho manželství popisuje životy tří osobností odehrávajících se v čase politické nejistoty, rasových nepokojů a sexuálního útlaku. Každý z hlavních představitelů příběhu je chycený v pasti své doby a dokazuje, co všechno je schopen obětovat a kam až zajít, aby se ze své pasti vymanil.