'To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive'During an eventful season at Bath, young, na ve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time.
'Lisa Owens is a comedy genius' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals'Laugh-out-loud funny' Observer'Insanely funny but also moving and true' Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall'A deadpan comic debut for the procrastination generation' GuardianNow and again we all lie awake wondering what on earth we're doing with our lives .
Incisive, controversial and startlingly funny, The Rules of Attraction examines a group of affluent students at a small, self-consciously bohemian, liberal-arts college on America's East Coast.
'Much of this is zany, irreverent fun with a serious underlying intent as Holt turns Plato, Virgil, Freud, Christianity and quantum physics--in short, the whole of the Western tradition--topsy-turvy.
'On the surface, MY HERO is funny; deep down, it's smart, with lots to say about the fine line between Life and Art- and about what happens when it disappears altogether.
The madness lying beneath the surface of life in Florida today is revealed in this manic tale of murder and mayhem from the acclaimed author of Orange Crush, Hammerhead Ranch Motel and Florida Roadkill - comic crime at its finest.
"En las historias de este libro, su autor demuestra que es un escritor con proyecto, no sólo para desarrollar un estilo de humor corrosivo hasta el hueso y un tipo de historia donde todos quedamos expuestos en paños menores, sino de un territorio lingüístico como identidad de una región, que ahora es también testigo y generadora de una época en la literatura mexicana.
* SOON TO BE A MINDY KALING TV SERIES ** A Book of the Month pick by CNN, Bustle, PopSugar, Entertainment Weekly and Vox ** One ofThe Washington Posts 10 Best Books of 2021 ** Longlisted for the Center for Fictions First Novel Prize *';Achingly familiar and marvellously inventive a dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise novel' Celeste Ng';Completelyoriginal, utterly absorbing, complex and confident'Karen Joy Fowler';Truly funny, insightful, smart and filled with wonderful characters unmissable' Ann NapolitanoANYONE CAN BE EXTRAORDINARY.
From the author of Cultural Amnesia, beloved writer, poet and broadcaster Clive James, The Remake is a satirical story of astronomy, celebrity and a certain sort of romance .
In this follow-up to his bestselling debut novel, Imperial Bedrooms sees Bret Easton Ellis reuinite with the privileged teenagers of his debauched Los Angeles, as they enter middle age.
