New in January: Everyday People and Spring
Everyday People by Albert Goldbarth
“Again Goldbarth directs his amazing collection of little-known facts
toward the same simple truths: people fall in and out of love, grow old, die,
and hope to be remembered, even as Goldbarth hopes to remember and cherish
every odd quotation he incorporates from an ‘astute, high-style comic strip,’
from Whitney Houston, from Charles Darwin, from his friends, all treated with a sympathetic and finally
optimistic gusto, ‘large and excited and various and full of that / exuberance
we call everyday life.’”—Publishers
Weekly, starred review
Spring by David Szalay
“In Spring the
gifted writer David Szalay explores the complex worlds of love and money, each
with their surprises and vicissitudes. This novel made me feel in the best way
that I was eavesdropping on a series of fascinating conversations. An
insightful portrait of contemporary England.”
—Margot Livesey