A surreal and magical novel of hope in the midst of apocalypse by the acclaimed author of Gob's Grief—"one of the most revelatory novels in recent memory" ( San Francisco Chronicle).Chris Adrian's debut novel, Gob's Grief, was hailed as "a work unlike any that has come before it" ( The Economist). Now, Adrian delivers a second work of visionary imagination in this magnificent tale of a children's hospital that survives, afloat, a...

Acclaimed as a "gifted, courageous writer"( The New York Times), Chris Adrian brings all his extraordinary talents to bear in The Great Night—a brilliant and mesmerizing retelling of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."On Midsummer Eve 2008, three people, each on the run from a failed relationship, become trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park, the secret home of Titania, Oberon, and their court. On this night, something awful is happeni...

The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering—illness, regret, mourning, sympathy—in the most unusual of ways. In "Stab," a bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lead him back to his dead brother. In "Why Antichrist?" a boy tries to contact the spirit of his dead father and finds himself talking to the Devil instead. In the remarkable title story, a ne'er do well pediatrician returns home to take ca...

In the summer of 1863, Gob and Tomo Woodhull, eleven-year-old twin sons of Victoria Woodhull, agree to together forsake their home and family in Licking County, Ohio, for the glories of the Union Army. But on the night of their departure for the war, Gob suffers a change of heart, and Tomo is forced to leave his brother behind. Tomo falls in as a bugler with the Ninth Ohio Volunteers and briefly revels in camp life; but when he is shot clean through the eye in his very first battle, Gob is...

Libre transposition dans le San Francisco d'aujourd'hui du Songe d'une nuit d'été, le roman de Chris Adrian est un livre surprenant, où réalité et féerie se télescopent pour interroger la nature exacte de l'amour.Henry, Will et Molly ne se connaissent pas mais ils ont quelque chose en commun. Tous trois viennent de perdre un être cher dans la mort ou la rupture. Un soir d'été, tandis qu'ils se rendent à une soirée, ils s'égarent dans Buena Vista Park sans savoir que ce lie...

San Francisco,midzomernacht 2008. Driemensen dieelkaar niet kennen zijn op weg naar hetzelfde feest. Geenvan drieën heeft zin,maar een feest kan helpen het verdrietover hun verloren liefdes te verwerken.Omdat ze laat zijn,besluiten ze de kortere route door het Buena Vista Park tenemen.Maar daar is ook de sprookjeswereld van de rouwendeTitania. Juist dezemidzomernacht verbreekt zij eenoude bezwering en raakt het park in de ban van dewraakzuch...

The New World presents an innovative story of love, decapitation, cryogenics, and memory by two of our most creative literary minds.Jorie has just received some terrible news. A phone full of missed calls and sympathetic text messages seem to indicate that her husband, Jim, a chaplain at the hospital where she works as a surgeon, is dead. Only, not quite—rather, his head has been removed from his body and cryogenically frozen. Jim awakes ...

Jorie has just received some terrible news. A phone full of missed calls and sympathetic text messages seems to indicate that her husband, Jim, a chaplain at the hospital where she works as a surgeon, is dead. Only, not quite—rather, his head has been removed from his body and cryogenically frozen. Jim awakes to find himself in an altogether unique situation, to say the least: his body gone but his consciousness alive, his only companion a mysterious disembodied voice. In this surreal and ...

Being Sociological considers the lived experience of sociology, stressing the active nature of social life and highlighting the role that students can play in enacting social change. Fully reworked in this third edition, with five brand new chapter topics and a diverse roster of new contributors, this textbook presents a fresh take on society today.The book encourages readers to examine both enduring challenges and their potential solutions. Dynamic learning features help ...

Cuban International Relations at 60 brings together the perspectives of leading experts and the personal accounts of two ambassadors to examine Cuba’s global engagement and foreign policy since January 1959 by focusing on the island’s key international relationships and issues. Thisbook’s first section focuseson Havana’s complex relationship with Washington and its second section concentrates on Cuba’s other key relationships with consideration also being given to Cuba's external trade and...

A fascinating and unsettling anthology of 32 science fiction short stories in tribute to the prophetic dystopias of New Wave sci-fi pioneer, and literary titan of the twentieth century, J. G. Ballard—featuring Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Christopher Fowler, Chris Beckett, and a new Jerry Cornelius story from Michael Moorcock.Few authors are so iconic that their name is an adjective – Ballard is one of them.Master of both literary and science fiction, his nove...

Adrian will nur nach Hause, als er in einer regennassen Nacht Jasper begegnet – einem dominanten Panther-Alpha mit goldenen Augen und einer Präsenz, die Adrians Herz aus dem Takt bringt. Zwischen ihnen schlägt das Gefährtenband ein wie ein Blitz, heiß, unerbittlich, unausweichlich. Eine Nacht reicht, um Grenzen zu verlieren – und ein Brandmal auf Adrians Haut zurückzulassen.Doch am nächsten Morgen ist Jasper verschwunden, und mit ihm die Sicherheit, dass dieses Schicksal wirklich ih...