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I think you need it, too.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Less","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Patrick deWitt has taken all of what I usually expect and want from a story, misted it in Chanel No. 5, and set to it an immeasurably classy lighter. Love it.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Natasha Pulley, bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street","OtherText_Review_0":"DeWitt’s surrealism is cheerful and matter-of-fact, making the novel feel as buoyantly insane as its characters.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_1":"A sparkling dark comedy that channels both Noel Coward’s wit and Wes Anderson’s loopy sensibility. DeWitt’s tone is breezy, droll, and blithely transgressive . . . These are people you may not want to invite to dinner, but they sure make for fun reading.","OtherText_Review_10":"Sharply observed moments give deWitt’s well-written novel more depth than the usual comedy of manners — a depth reinforced by the exit that closes the tale, sharp object and all. Reminiscent at points of The Ginger Man but in the end a bright, original yarn with a surprising twist.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_11":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrench Exit\u003c\/em\u003e satisfies with its delightful economy. Barely a word is out of place, and the dialogue is particularly arch and ironic … One hears echoes in \u003cem\u003eFrench Exit\u003c\/em\u003e of playwrights Noël Coward and Oscar Wilde, not to mention novelists Evelyn Waugh and Edith Wharton.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"NPR","OtherText_Review_2":"A cross between a Feydeau farce (fitting, given that the location of most of the novel is Paris) and a Buñuel film, as one after another in an eccentric cast of characters is introduced . . . DeWitt is in possession of a fresh, lively voice that surprises at every turn.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Kate Atkinson","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Vanity Fair","OtherText_Review_3":"DeWitt’s particular comic genius is to evoke the darkness behind the dazzle. The novel is a brittle, unsettling delight: a fairground ride swooping above vertiginous drops, wringing out laughter and screams as it rattles towards its conclusion. Whichever style he adopts or genre he inhabits, deWitt remains a true original.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_4":"DeWitt’s particular comic genius is to evoke the darkness behind the dazzle. The novel is a brittle, unsettling delight: a fairground ride swooping above vertiginous drops, wringing out laughter and screams as it rattles towards its conclusion. Whichever style he adopts or genre he inhabits, deWitt remains a true original.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_5":"A highly enjoyable read . . . DeWitt’s style is nothing if not idiosyncratic, and his elevated language — played for particular comic effect when it comes to dialogue — is perfectly suited to affectionately chiding upper-class mores. And the tenderness between Frances, her son, and her old friend Joan is of the real stuff.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Esquire","OtherText_Review_6":"A ‘tragedy of manners’ about people out of sync in the world, this novel is disconcertingly funny. It strikes postures where a more conventional writer would have been sincere and humourless. Its subjects are effrontery, wealth, death, and bad manners. Many of the greatest novels are about nothing so very important, and they last because they are done beautifully. French Exit shows Patrick deWitt’s literary mastery and perfect ear. It’s an immaculate performance on ice, executed with sharp shining blades, lutzing and pirouetting above unknowable black depths.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury Citation","OtherText_Review_7":"Disarmingly funny … Billed as a ‘tragedy of manners,’ French Exit is deWitt’s take on a form of theatre popularized over the centuries (but dating back to the ancient Greeks) by such luminaries as Molière, Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, and Noel Coward — with deWitt’s snappy yet droll version most closely resembling the latter two. A traditional comedy of manners employs an abundance of wit and insouciance to skewer the deplorable aspects of high society — and the prevalence of appearance over substance in particular. 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French Exit
A brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial ruin.
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{"id":6818230403131,"title":"The Sisters Brothers","handle":"the-sisters-brothers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Prix des libraires du Quebec and the Stephen Leacock Medal. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHermann Kermit Warm is going to die: Eli and Charlie Sisters can be counted on for that. Though Eli has never shared his brother’s penchant for whiskey and killing, he’s never known anything else. On the road to Warm’s gold-mining claim outside San Francisco — and from the back of his long-suffering one-eyed horse — Eli struggles to make sense of his life without abandoning the job he's sworn to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePatrick deWitt, acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eAblutions\u003c\/em\u003e, doffs his hat to the classic Western, and then transforms it into a comic tour-de-force with an unforgettable narrative voice that captures all the absurdity, melancholy, and grit of the West — and of these two brothers, bound to each other by blood and scars and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-29T12:26:58-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T10:52:25-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Bestseller","Adult Humor","Adult Starred Reviews","Anansi Book Club Editions","Book Club Pick","By (author) deWitt Patrick","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2011-05-14"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":2399,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40228927504443,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890329","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Sisters Brothers - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2399,"weight":522,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770890329","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40228931534907,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890275","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Sisters Brothers - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770890275","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40228933009467,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897601","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Sisters Brothers - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897601","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_db98a650-2dae-4b9f-86cf-d6fb92527abb.jpg?v=1688887328"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_db98a650-2dae-4b9f-86cf-d6fb92527abb.jpg?v=1688887328","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23593256878139,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.664,"height":2693,"width":1789,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_db98a650-2dae-4b9f-86cf-d6fb92527abb.jpg?v=1688887328"},"aspect_ratio":0.664,"height":2693,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_db98a650-2dae-4b9f-86cf-d6fb92527abb.jpg?v=1688887328","width":1789}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Prix des libraires du Quebec and the Stephen Leacock Medal. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHermann Kermit Warm is going to die: Eli and Charlie Sisters can be counted on for that. Though Eli has never shared his brother’s penchant for whiskey and killing, he’s never known anything else. On the road to Warm’s gold-mining claim outside San Francisco — and from the back of his long-suffering one-eyed horse — Eli struggles to make sense of his life without abandoning the job he's sworn to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePatrick deWitt, acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eAblutions\u003c\/em\u003e, doffs his hat to the classic Western, and then transforms it into a comic tour-de-force with an unforgettable narrative voice that captures all the absurdity, melancholy, and grit of the West — and of these two brothers, bound to each other by blood and scars and love.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Sisters Brothers
In this #1 national bestseller, Patrick deWitt spins a violent, lustful, hung-over and humorous odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier.
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Pretty, daisy-shaped flowers bloom in spring, though flowering may be profuse after bushfires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n *\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe first story Alice ever learned began on the edge of darkness, where her newborn screams restarted her mother’s heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe night she was born, a subtropical storm had blown in from the east and caused king tides to flood the river banks, cutting off the lane between the Harts’ property and town. Stranded in the laneway with her water broken and a band of fire seemingly cutting her in half, Agnes Hart pushed life and a daughter out of her body on the back seat of her husband’s truck. Clem Hart, consumed by panic as the storm boomed over the cane fields, was at first too frantic swaddling his newborn to notice his wife’s pallor. When he saw her face turn white as sand, her lips the shade of a pipi shell, Clem fell upon her in a frenzy, forgetting their baby. He shook Agnes, to no avail. It wasn’t until her daughter screamed that Agnes was jolted to consciousness. On either side of the laneway, rain-soaked bushes burst into a flurry of white flowers. Alice’s first breaths were filled with lightning and the scent of storm lilies in bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eYou were the true love I needed to wake me from a curse, Bun,\u003c\/em\u003e her mother would say to finish the story. \u003cem\u003eYou’re my fairytale.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eWhen Alice was two years old, Agnes introduced her to books; as she read, she pointed to each word on the page. Down at the beach, she repeated: one cuttlefish, two feathers, three pieces of driftwood, four shells, and five shards of sea glass. Around their house, Agnes’s hand-lettered signs: BOOK. CHAIR. WINDOW. DOOR. TABLE. CUP. BATH. BED. By the time Alice started homeschooling when she was five, she was reading by herself. Though her love of books was swift and absolute, Alice always loved her mother’s storytelling more. When they were alone, Agnes spun stories around the two of them. But never in earshot of Alice’s father.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eTheir ritual was to walk to the sea and lay on the sand staring up at the sky. With her mother’s gentle voice telling the way, they took winter train trips across Europe, through landscapes with mountains so tall you couldn’t see their tops, and ridges so smothered in snow you couldn’t see the line separating the white sky from white earth. They wore velvet coats in the cobblestoned city of a tattooed king, where the harbour buildings were as colourful as a box of paints, and a mermaid sat, cast in bronze, forever awaiting love. Alice often closed her eyes, imagining that every thread in her mother’s stories might spin them into the centre of a chrysalis, from which they could emerge and fly away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eWhen Alice was six years old, her mother tucked her into her bed one evening, leant forward and whispered in her ear. \u003cem\u003eIt’s time, Bun.\u003c\/em\u003e She sat back smiling as she pulled up the covers. \u003cem\u003eYou’re old enough now to help me in my garden.\u003c\/em\u003e Alice squirmed with excitement; her mother usually left her with a book while she gardened alone. \u003cem\u003eWe’ll start tomorrow,\u003c\/em\u003e Agnes said before she turned out the light. Repeatedly through the night, Alice woke to peer through the dark windows. At last she saw the first thread of light in the sky and threw her sheets back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eAlice’s mother was in the kitchen making Vegemite and cottage cheese on toast and a pot of honeyed tea, which she carried on a tray outside to her garden alongside the house. The air was cool, the early sun was warm. Her mother rested the tray on a mossy tree stump and poured sweet tea into two teacups. They sat chewing and drinking in silence. Alice’s pulse beat loudly in her temples. After Agnes ate the last of her toast and finished her tea, she crouched between her ferns and flowers, murmuring as if she was rousing sleeping children. Alice wasn’t sure what to do. Was this gardening? She mimicked her mother and sat with the plants, watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eSlowly, the lines of worry in her mother’s face vanished. Her furrowed brow relaxed. She didn’t wring her hands, or fidget. Her eyes were full and clear. She became someone Alice didn’t recognise. Her mother was peaceful. She was calm. The sight filled Alice with the kind of green hope she found at the bottom of rock pools at low tide but never managed to cup in her hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe more time she spent with her mother in the garden, the more deeply Alice understood — from the tilt of Agnes’s wrist when she inspected a new bud, to the light that reached her eyes when she lifted her chin, and the thin rings of dirt that encircled her fingers as she coaxed new fern fronds from the soil — the truest parts of her mother bloomed among her plants. Especially when she talked to the flowers. Her eyes glazed over and she mumbled in a secret language, a word here, a phrase there as she snapped flowers off their stems and tucked them into her pockets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSorrowful remembrance,\u003c\/em\u003e she’d say as she plucked a bindweed flower from its vine. \u003cem\u003eLove, returned.\u003c\/em\u003e The citrusy scent of lemon myrtle would fill the air as she tore it from a branch. \u003cem\u003ePleasures of memory.\u003c\/em\u003e Her mother pocketed a scarlet palm of kangaroo paw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eQuestions scratched at the back of Alice’s throat. Why did her mother’s words only flow when she was telling stories about other places and other worlds? What about their world, right in front of them? Where did she go when her eyes were far away? Why couldn’t Alice go with her?\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eBy her seventh birthday, Alice’s body was heavy from the burden of unanswered questions. They filled her chest. Why did her mother talk to the native flowers in such cryptic ways? How could her father be two different people? What curse did Alice’s first tears save her mother from? Although they weighed on her mind, Alice’s questions remained stuck, lodged in her windpipe as painfully as if she’d swallowed a seedpod. Moments of opportunity came on good days in the garden, when the light fell just so, yet Alice said nothing. In silence, she followed her mother as her pockets filled with flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eIf Agnes ever noticed Alice’s silence, she never said anything to break it. It was understood time spent in the garden was quiet time. \u003cem\u003eLike a library,\u003c\/em\u003e her mother once mused as she glided through her maidenhair ferns. Though Alice hadn’t ever been to a library — to see more books in one place than she could imagine, or hear the whispers of collective pages turning — she felt she almost had, through her mother’s stories. From Agnes’s description, Alice imagined a library must be a quiet garden of books, where stories grew like flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eAlice hadn’t been anywhere else beyond their property either. Her life was confined to its boundaries: from her mother’s garden to the where the cane fields started, to the bay where the sea curled close by. She was forbidden to venture further than those lines, and especially the one that separated their driveway from the lane that led into town. \u003cem\u003eIt’s no place for a girl,\u003c\/em\u003e her father would say, slamming his fist on the dinner table, making the plates and cutlery jump, whenever Alice’s mother suggested sending her to school. \u003cem\u003eShe’s safer here,\u003c\/em\u003e he’d growl, putting an end to the conversation. That’s what her father was most able to do, put an end to everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eWhether they spent their day in the garden or at the sea, the point always came when a storm bird would call, or a cloud would cross the sun, and Alice’s mother would shake herself awake, as if she’d been sleepwalking through a dream. She became animated, turning on her heel to sprint towards the house, calling over her shoulder at Alice, \u003cem\u003efirst one to the kitchen gets fresh cream on her scones.\u003c\/em\u003e Afternoon tea was a bittersweet time; her father would be home soon. Ten minutes before he was due, her mother would position herself by the front door, her face pulled too tight in a smile, her voice pitched too high, her fingers in knots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eSome days Alice’s mother disappeared from her body altogether. There were no stories or walks to the sea. There was no talking with flowers. Her mother would stay in bed with the curtains drawn against the blanching light, vanished, as if her soul had gone somewhere else entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eWhen that happened, Alice tried to distract herself from the way the air in the house pressed on her body; the awful silence as if no one were home; the sight of her mother crumpled in bed. Those were things that made it difficult to breathe. Alice picked up books she’d read a dozen times already and revisited school worksheets she’d already completed. She fled to the sea to caw with the gulls and chase waves along shore. She ran alongside the walls of sugar cane, throwing her hair back and swaying like the green stalks in the hot wind. But no matter how she tried, nothing felt good. Alice wished on feathers and dandelions to be a bird and fly far away into the golden seam of the horizon, where the sea was sewn to the sky. Day after shadowy day passed without her mother. Alice paced the edges of her world. It was only a matter of time before she learned she could disappear too.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"This story about family, love, and reinvention is defiant in its sweetness and is stirring to its end.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eWhat can I say about \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Flowers of Alice Hart\u003c\/em\u003e that would live up to the beauty of the words in this book? … A gorgeous book inside and out.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"A Couple Reads","OtherText_Review_2":"An impressive coming-of-age debut.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Baking Bookworm","OtherText_Review_3":"An engrossing novel imbued with passion and reverence for the Australian natural world, with a cast of characters that inspire affection in the reader even as they make mistakes.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Books and Publishing","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eA dark, floral fairytale ... There is a reason Ringland’s novel, her first, and already a bestseller, has been bought by publishers around the world, and it’s not the native flowers ... The first half of\u003cem\u003e The Lost Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e is delicate and dark as a fairytale, with violent details that stick to you like burrs. But it is in the second half, with Alice out in the real world, where Ringland really gets into gear, and her talent is undeniable ... Ringland’s storytelling is driven by an undimmed sense of wonder at the darkness and light, the damage and love in people. It makes for a determined investigation of abuse and survival accomplished with profound sensitivity.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Sydney Morning Herald","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003eDomestic violence and the lies that surround it—rarely is the topic explored in such a beautifully written, hopeful, and enthralling tale.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Herald Sun","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003eLush, powerful ... This is an engrossing novel imbued with passion and reverence for the Australian natural world, with a cast of characters that inspire affection in the reader even as they make mistakes. Those who couldn’t put down \u003cem\u003eThe Natural Way of Things\u003c\/em\u003e will find a gentler but no less compelling journey of female survival in this novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Books+Publishing","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003eThere’s an aching heart beating through Holly Ringland’s narrative that although at times seems almost broken, is stitched back together with shards of optimism that offer constant hope. These are characters we love, care about, and want to nurture ... A vivid and brave tale of love, loss, and inner power.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Australian Women’s Weekly","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003eAt its heart, this book is about finding a way to care for yourself, in a world that sometimes likes to step on its flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Courier‑Mail","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us — and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-08-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us — and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us — and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
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Kim's Convenience
The smash hit play, Kim’s Convenience tells the story of one Korean family struggling to face the future amidst the bitter memories of their past.
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The Breadwinner (movie tie-in edition)
A special movie tie-in edition of The Breadwinner, the first book in the best-selling series. Features a color insert with stills from the movie.
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For sheer enterprise, he is hard to beat.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"Immensely informative and more than slightly scary.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_2":"A vividly recounted journey through a dozen of the world’s most potent gangs, cartels, and transnational mafias.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Wall Street Journal","OtherText_Review_3":"Gripping.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The Economist","OtherText_Review_4":"Glenny has extended his research worldwide. He describes gang operations in Bombay, sex slavery and money-laundering in Israel, the Canadian marijuana trade, Nigerian investment scams, Brazilian cyber-crime, and much else. . . . 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McMafia
An international bestselling exposé on global organized crime, featuring a new chapter on the expansion of McMafia culture.
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Channel of Peace
Channel of Peace is an unforgettable memoir of the extraordinary kindness afforded to passengers whose flights were re-routed to Gander, NL on 9/11.
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A remarkable novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.
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Caught
A remarkable novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.
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But most of all, I didn’t want to. I’d been in relationships for nearly thirty-five years. I’d even experienced the full relationship cycle — fall in love, get married, and get divorced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd now I was supposed to do it all over again? Was engaging in the relationship cycle the only thing I could do with my life? I thought about that good old definition of crazy: Doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was time to put an end to the cycle. And so I decided for the first time in thirty-four years, to be man-free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis also meant being sex-free. At this point in my life, I’m not a casual sex person.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI didn’t talk about it, of course. The topic of sex, once the source of so much amusement, embarrassment, fear and joy, rarely came up. My single friends had been single forever and not dating and therefore not getting any, while my married friends were married and dealing with kids and also — I imagined — not getting any.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Perhaps no one has better excavated our kinky underpinnings than Candace Bushnell, author of the original ‘Sex and the City’ columns and progenitor of the show that made Manolo a household name. Fifteen years after Carrie Bradshaw sighed her last ‘I couldn't help but wonder,’ Bushnell is back with Is There Still Sex in the City? The protagonist, Candace, is a recently divorced writer who trades her Manhattan life for a cottage in the Hamptons . . . [Is There Still Sex in the City? is] brimming with the snappy rhetorical questions and taxonomic acronyms that became Bushnell's signature back in the stiletto days . . . While Carrie was a bright-eyed anthropologist, Candace and her friends are survivalists; even beyond the City, it's a jungle out there.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Vogue","OtherText_Review_1":"Sometimes it can be fun to wonder what became of our fictional heroines . . . what of Carrie Bradshaw? After she bagged her Mr. Big, did she list her $40,000 shoe collection on eBay, move to the suburbs, have a bunch of kids, and grow old gracefully? Or did Carrie find herself in her fifties child-free, single again, and wondering how to get back in the game, only to have her gynecologist recommend a Mona Lisa laser treatment because ‘your vagina is not flexible enough’? Ugh. Such are the humiliations awaiting the female in middle age. That you-gotta-laugh-or-you-cry place is where Candace Bushnell, with her usual sparkling candor, begins Is There Still Sex in the City?.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_2":"The book captures the buoyancy of the writer’s brand . . . As with the show, there’s a lot to relish. Bushnell’s portrayals of the women in her circle somehow feel both forgiving and clinical, with an anthropologist’s matter-of-factness . . . Bushnell wrestles smartly with the theme of aging, with how being a ‘fiftysomething’ woman is different from being a ‘thirtysomething’ woman . . . This Bushnell writes most gracefully about topics that are not sex and dating . . . The city is big, Bushnell implies, but not endless. The sex never left it. But was sex ever really the point?","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_3":"Bushnell’s voice is as knowing and sharp as ever . . . As with SATC’s ‘toxic bachelors’ and ‘modelizers,’ there’s a new taxonomy: ‘Cubbing,’ the pursuit of older women by younger men; or ‘MAM,’ for middle-aged madness, a late-onset midlife crisis for women. She also updates a chapter on ‘bicycle boys’ — then, the charmingly rumpled literary types on vintage bikes, now wealthy guys in Lycra.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_4":"While [Bushnell] doesn’t bring back Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, or Samantha, it feels a bit like we’re at brunch with middle-aged versions of those archetypes, and they’re still talking about love and sex because, well, of course. The book, part memoir, part fiction, is a guide to the Ides of Fifty . . . Much like in the original SATC, Bushnell and her friends experience every romantic possibility so we don’t have to . . . Bushnell also touches on poignant aspects of what she calls ‘middle-aged madness’: the death of a parent, the isolation of divorce, the ache of realizing that even the most gorgeous among us will eventually become invisible.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Time Magazine","OtherText_Review_5":"As she did in her bestselling Sex in the City, Bushnell examines her own and her friends’ experiences with dry wit, delivering sharp social observations about the trials and piquant pleasures of looking for love at a certain age.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"People Magazine","OtherText_Review_6":"It’s hard out there for a cougar. But for Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell, it’s exactly the age when women need her the most. Her latest book addresses . . . women in their fifties and sixties who suddenly find themselves dating again. As with its predecessor, there is no shortage of catchphrase-worthy sentiments.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Entertainment Weekly","OtherText_Review_7":"What comes after cosmos and toxic bachelors? Fuelled by chilled rosé, Sex and the City scribe Candace Bushnell is masterfully decoding a new era of single life.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"USA Today","OtherText_Review_8":"Bittersweet, amusing, and well observed.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, delivers a highly entertaining book on the highs and lows of sex and dating after fifty.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-08-06","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, delivers a highly entertaining book on the highs and lows of sex and dating after fifty.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Is There Still Sex in the City?
Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, delivers a highly entertaining book on the highs and lows of sex and dating after fifty.
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The Sisters Brothers (Movie Tie-In Edition)
A new edition to coincide with the release of the major motion picture adaptation starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, and John C. Reilly.
