New Releases by Jess Walter

Ano de 1962. Em um trecho rochoso do litoral italiano, um jovem dono de hotel olha para as águas incandescentes do mar da Ligúria e vê uma aparição: uma bela mulher se aproximando em um barco. Ele então descobre que se trata de uma atriz, uma estrela americana, e que ela está morrendo. A história dá um salto e recomeça nos dias atuais, a meio mundo de distância, quando um idoso italiano aparece em um estúdio de cinema procurando pela misteriosa mulher que ele viu pela última vez em seu hotel décadas atrás.O que se desenrola a partir daí é um romance deslumbrante e profundamente humano, que abrange cinquenta anos e algumas vidas. Da filmagem de Cleópatra à agitação do Edinburgh Fringe Festival, o autor nos apresenta um emaranhado de vidas de personagens inesquecíveis: o apaixonado dono de hotel italiano e seu amor desaparecido; o conservador produtor que outrora conseguiu juntá-los e sua jovem e idealista assistente; o veterano do exército que se tornou escritor e o libertino Richard Burton, cujas vontades são responsáveis pelo desenrolar de toda a narrativa — ao lado dos amantes e sonhadores, celebridades e perdedores que povoam o mundo nas décadas que se seguem. Inventivo e surpreendente, Ruínas do tempo é uma história de pessoas imperfeitas, mas fascinantes, navegando nas costas rochosas da vida, enquanto se apegam a sonhos improváveis.

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter—a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favorite These twelve stories—published over the last five years in Harper’s, The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, Playboy, and other publications—veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This is a world of lost fathers and redemptive conmen, of meth tweakers on desperate odysseys and men committing suicide by fishing. We Live in Water is a darkly comic, heartfelt collection of stories from a “ridiculously talented writer” (New York Times), “one of the freshest voices in American literature” (Dallas Morning News).

Eine herzzerreissende, komische und verrückte Liebesgeschichte Ein verschlafener Ort an der ligurischen Küste im Frühjahr 1962: Pasquale hat von seinem Vater eine Pension geerbt, und wenn er nicht gerade in der Brandung steht, um mühsam einen Strand anzulegen, vermisst er ein Felsplateau, auf dem ein Tennisplatz entstehen soll. Denn Pasquale hat eine Vision: Er will aus Porto Vergogna einen glamourösen Ferienort machen, der Touristen aus aller Welt anlockt, am liebsten aus Amerika. Dann checkt tatsächlich eine junge amerikanische Schauspielerin in seiner Pension ein, und Pasquale verliert sein Herz an sie. Mit ihr kommt die Welt nach Porto Vergogna - die Verheissungen des fernen Amerika, der Glamour von Cinecittà und schliesslich sogar ein sturzbesoffener Richard Burton. Und als die Amerikanerin wieder abreist, ist für Pasquale nichts mehr, wie es war. Ein Steinchen ist ins Mittelmeer gefallen, das noch Jahrzehnte später seine Wellen an die Pazifikküste spült, als der alte Pasquale in Kalifornien nach dieser längst verlorenen Liebe seines Lebens sucht - zusammen mit einem abgebrühten Hollywood-Produzenten, dessen resignierter Assistentin und einem selbstverliebten Möchtegern-Drehbuchautor, der zufällig Italienisch kann. Ein erfrischender und lebenskluger Roman voller Witz und Dolce Vita um hochfliegende Träume, tiefe Abgründe und die Ironie unserer Existenz. Jess Walter arbeitete als Journalist, bevor er Buchautor wurde. Neben preisgekrönten Kriminalromanen schrieb er ein Sachbuch über das Rechtssystem in den Vereinigten Staaten, das er gemeinsam mit Christopher Darden, einem der bekanntesten Anwälte der USA, verfasste und für das er den Pulitzer-Preis erhielt. Jess Walter lebt mit seiner Familie in Spokane, Washington.

“The most comprehensive, even-handed and best written account of Ruby Ridge currently in print.” — Washington Times From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, here is the story of what happened on Ruby Ridge: the tragic and unlikely series of events that destroyed a family, brought down the number-two man in the FBI, and left in its wake a nation increasingly attuned to the dangers of unchecked federal power. On the last hot day of summer in 1992, gunfire cracked over a rocky knob in northern Idaho, just south of the Canadian border. By the next day three people were dead, and a small war was joined, pitting the full might of federal law enforcement against one well-armed family. Drawing on extensive interviews with Randy Weaver''s family, government insiders, and others, Walter traces the paths that led the Weavers to their confrontation with federal agents and led the government to treat a family like a gang of criminals.

“Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.” — Richard Russo The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later. The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, deep in daydreams, looks out over the waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio''s back lot—searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier. What unfolds is a dazzling roller coaster of a novel, spanning fifty years and nearly as many lives. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Walter introduces us to the tangled lives of a dozen unforgettable characters: the starstruck Italian innkeeper and his long-lost love; the heroically preserved producer who once brought them together and his idealistic young assistant; the army veteran turned fledgling novelist and the rakish Richard Burton himself, whose appetites set the whole story in motion—along with the husbands and wives, lovers and dreamers, superstars and losers, who populate their world in the decades that follow. Gloriously inventive, constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a story of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.

Com’è possibile che un brillante giornalista economico quarantaseienne, stimato padre di famiglia, si ritrovi a fumare erba di notte fuori da un 7-Eleven con dei giovani sballati? E che decida di darsi allo spaccio insieme ai suoi nuovi amici, cacciandosi in un mare di guai? Tutto inizia con un brillante progetto di qualche mese prima: aprire poetfolio.com, un sito di consigli finanziari in versi, era parsa l’idea del secolo a Matt Prior, che per lanciarsi in questa nuova avventura non aveva esitato a licenziarsi dal giornale per cui lavorava. Il sito però non è decollato, e Matt non ha nessuna speranza di trovare un altro impiego. Ma c’è da pagare il mutuo sulla casa, che rischia di finire in mano alla banca, c’è la retta per la scuola privata dei figli, c’è da occuparsi del vecchio padre che si è fatto mangiare tutto da una spogliarellista ed è convinto di essere ancora negli anni Settanta... E soprattutto c’è da riconquistare l’avvenente moglie Lisa, che passa le sue giornate su Facebook, a chattare con il fidanzato delle superiori, il principe Chuck Celoduro, proprietario dell’avviatissimo Reame del Legname, paradiso del fai-da-te. Forse spacciare erba potrebbe davvero essere una soluzione, peccato che Matt sia – e rimanga – un sognatore, un poeta, incapace di adeguarsi alle asprezze della vita... Un romanzo feroce e divertentissimo, tenero e sorprendente sulla crisi economica e personale di un uomo capace di humour e ironia anche se la sua esistenza è andata a rotoli. Perché c’è sempre una via d’uscita. Per tutti.

Selected amoung The 10 Best Books of 2009 by TIME, THE FINANCIAL LIVES OF THE POETS by Jess Walter, the author of The Zero (a finalist for the National Book Award), Citizen Vince (a winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel). This extremely funny, sad and satirical, yet compassionate portrait of reality of life in contemporary America. Korean edition translated by O Sei Won. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Le Zéro, c''est bien sûr Ground Zero. Lorsque Brian Remy, flic traumatisé par les attentats du 11 septembre, reprend conscience, il est blessé à la tête. Il semble avoir tenté de mettre fin à ses jours. Comment en est-il arrivé là ? Brian est victime "d''absences" et se retrouve dans des situations impossibles sans plus savoir comment il les a provoquées. Plus grave encore, il lui semble que deux personnes cohabitent dans son crâne, dont l''une au moins est dangereuse. Stress post-traumatique ? Peut-être, mais le climat de paranoïa qui affecte désormais les États-Unis y est sans doute aussi pour quelque chose. Car Brian est embarqué dans de nébuleuses conspirations antiterroristes qui le plongent dans une profonde confusion. Et si la seule manière de comprendre la véritable nature de sa personnalité était de retourner sur les lieux où elle a commencé à s''effondrer ?

Tiempo atr&ás Matt Prior, un modesto columnista financiero, apost&ó todo lo que ten&ía a una idea quijotesca: crear un sitio de Internet dedicado al periodismo econ&ómico en forma de poes&ía. Ahora, sin trabajo, ahogado por las deudas, a punto de perder su hogar, mientras su esposa coquetea online con su antiguo novio, y sin poder superar el insomnio, Matt conoce a dos j&óvenes de muy mal aspecto que lo invitan a fumar una marihuana de dise&ño tan poderosa que, adem&ás de cambiar la manera en que Matt percibe el mundo, le dar&á una idea aparentemente fabulosa: si consigue vender esa misma marihuana a sus amigos y conocidos, podr&á recomponer su situaci&ón financiera y dejar ser un fracasado como padre y marido. Ir&ónica y tierna radiograf&ía de nuestra sociedad, &ésta la conmovedora historia de un hombre que llega al borde de la ruina... y trata de emprender el camino de regreso.

Matt Prior is losing his job, his wife, and his house, and he''s about to lose his mind--until he discovers a way that he might possibly be able to save it all.

While working the weekend night shift, Caroline Mabry, a weary Spokane police detective, encounters a seemingly unstable but charming derelict who tells her, "I''d like to confess." But he insists on writing out his statement in longhand. In the forty-eight hours that follow, the stranger confesses to not just a crime but an entire life—spinning a wry and haunting tale of youth and adulthood, of obsession and revenge, and of two men''s intertwined lives. Fiendishly clever and darkly funny, Land of the Blind speaks to the bonds and compromises we make as children—and to the fatal errors we can make at any time.

During a routine drug bust, on a narrow bridge over white-water falls in the center of town, Spokane detective Caroline Mabry finds herself face-to-face with a brutal murderer. Within hours, the body of a young prostitute is found on the riverbank nearby. What follows confronts our fascination with pathology and murder and stares it down, as Caroline and her cynical partner, Alan Dupree—thrown headlong into the search for a serial murderer who communicates by killing women—uncover some hard truths about their profession . . . and each other. Rich with the darkly muted colors of the Pacific Northwest skies, Over Tumbled Graves established Jess Walter as a novelist of extraordinary emotional depth and dimension.

From its opening pages—when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he''s shot himself in the head—Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that his memory is skipping, lurching between moments of lucidity and days when he doesn''t seem to be living his own life at all. Remy has a new girlfriend he doesn''t know, a son who pretends he''s dead, and an unsettling new job chasing a trail of paper scraps for a shadowy intelligence agency known as the Department of Documentation. Whether that trail will lead Remy to an elusive terror cell—or send him circling back to himself—is only one of the questions posed by this provocative yet deeply human novel.

One day you know more dead people that live ones... Jess Walter is a writer with a rare talent for finding humanity and emotional truths in lives lived on both sides of the law. With his third novel, Citizen Vince, Walter has crafted a story as inventive as it is suspenseful -- an irresistible tale about the price of freedom and the mystery of salvation. It''s the fall of 1980, eight days before a presidential election that pits the downtrodden Jimmy Carter against the suspiciously sunny Ronald Reagan ("Are you better off than you were four years ago?"). In a quiet house in Spokane, Washington, Vince Camden wakes up at 1:59 a.m., pockets his weekly stash of stolen credit cards, and drops in on an all-night poker game with his low-life friends on his way to his witness-protection job dusting crullers at Donut Make You Hungry. This is the sum of Vince''s new life: donuts, forged credit cards, marijuana smuggled in jars of volcanic ash, and a neurotic hooker girlfriend who dreams of being a real estate agent. But when a familiar face shows up in town, Vince realizes that no matter how far you think you''ve run from your past . . . it''s always close behind you. Over the course of the next unforgettable week, on the run from Spokane to New York''s Lower East Side, Vince Camden will negotiate a maze of obsessive cops, eager politicians, and emerging mobsters, only to find that redemption might just exist in -- of all places -- a voting booth. Darkly funny and surprisingly hopeful, Citizen Vince is the story of a charming crook chasing the biggest score of his life: a second chance.

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What went wrong at Ruby Ridge? Why was Randy Weaver''s son fatally shot in the back? How could the FBI justify shooting a woman as she held her infant child? Why were the Weavers given a $3.1 million settlement by the U.S. Government? Was there an FBI cover-up and how high did it go? Every Knee Shall Bow answers the critical questions that cut to the heart of the most explosive issues in the United States today. The Weaver Family took to the woods to escape what they believed was a sinful world on the brink of Armageddon. But Randy Weaver''s indictment on a firearms violation escalated into a deadly shoot out at his northern Idaho cabin. Before it was over, a federal marshal, Weaver''s wife and his only son were dead. Now, featuring exclusive interviews with key figures on both sides, Pulitzer Prize finalist Jess Walter objectively reconstructs all the riveting events in this controversial case.