A New York Times Notable Book“This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.” —Stephen KingFrom the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired i...

“Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.” —The New York Times Book Review“A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.” —NPR“[A] descendent of the Dickensian ‘social novel’ by way of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays bare contemporary culture clashes, showing us who we are and how we got here.” —Oprah Daily“A book that has stayed with me ever si...

In einer schicksalshaften Sommernacht im Jahr 2013 treffen sich vier ehemalige Klassenkameraden in New Canaan, in der sie aufgewachsen sind. Jeder von ihnen hat eine Mission, alle werden von Reue, Geheimnissen und verlorenen Lieben heimgesucht. Da ist Bill Ashcraft, ein alkoholkranker, drogenabhängiger Aktivist, dessen vergebliche Ambitionen ihn von Kambodscha zum Zuccotti Park und zurück nach New Orleans geführt haben und der nun mit einem mysteriösen Paket an der Unterseite seines Trucks...

Norman Mailer. Hunter S. Thompson. David Foster Wallace. All Stephen Markley ever wanted was a reason to use their names in a book blurb. In November 2011, the nascent author and journalist attended a Republican presidential primary debate in Rochester, Michigan, wishing to see first-hand one of the most outlandish, jaw-dropping, eye-brow-raising primaries in American political history. The author of “Publish This Book” took his seat in the media filing center, set up his laptop, and uncap...

From the author of Ohio (Best Books of Summer 2018 Selection in Time, Vulture, and the New York Post) comes a brilliant, hilarious, and deeply touching memoir that blows the roof off the genre.Fed up with the complicated quest of trying to get a book published, Stephen Markley decided to cut to the chase and simply write a memoir about trying to publish a book—this book, to be precise. It's the most "meta" experiment he's ever un...

A New York Times Notable Book“This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.” —Stephen KingFrom the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired i...

Elu meilleur roman étranger 2024 par Lire Magazine.Sélection Télérama : Les Meilleurs romans 2024Sélection du Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire - Roman étranger"Ce livre vous laissera K.O. parce que vous ne pourrez plus le lâcher." Lydie Zannini, Librairie du Théâtre, Bourg-en-Bresse"Ce qui serait bien, c'est que tout le monde lise ce livre. On ne peu...

“Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.” —The New York Times Book Review“A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.” —NPR“[A] descendent of the Dickensian ‘social novel’ by way of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays bare contemporary culture clashes, showing us who we are and how we got here.” —Oprah Daily“A book that has stayed with me ever si...

Grand Prix de Littérature américaine 2020Palmarès Les 100 livres de l'année 2020 - Lire-Magazine LittérairePar un fébrile soir d'été, quatre anciens camarades de lycée désormais trentenaires se trouvent par hasard réunis à New Canaan, la petite ville de l'Ohio où ils ont grandi.Bill Ashcraft, ancien activiste humanitaire devenu toxicomane, doit y livrer un mystérieux paquet. Stacey Moore a accepté de rencontrer la ...

Vous tenez entre vos mains l'avenir de notre monde. . Californie, 2013. Tony Pietrus, auteur d'un livre-choc sur le dérèglement climatique, reçoit des menaces de mort. Provocation, canular, avertissement ? Le scientifique, qui a prophétisé le chaos à venir, se heurte en effet à un profond déni et assiste, impuissant, à la destruction de la planète. Des supertyphons aux mégafeux, du complotisme antiécologique au capitalisme de surveillance, catastrophes et violences précipitent l'humanité a...

This book presents a new emerging concept of "Integrative Structural Biology". It covers current trends of the molecular and cellular structural biology, providing new methods to observe, validate, and keep the structural models of the large cellular machines with recent scientific results. Structures of very large macromolecular machines in cells are being determined by combining observations from complementary experimental methods. Thus, this volume presents the each methods such as X-ra...