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A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball
Category: Fiction
From the acclaimed author of Silence Once Begun comes a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory. A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an 'examiner', the man, ...Show more
A Cure for Suicide: A Novel (US HB) by Jesse Ball
Category: Fiction
From the author of "Silence Once Begun, " a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory. A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an examiner, the man, her claimant. T ...Show more
Census by Jesse Ball
Category: Fiction
NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY The New York Times - The Chicago Reader - Nylon - The Boston Globe - The Huffington Post - The Rumpus - The AV Club - Southern Living - The Millions - Buzzfeed - Esquire A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devasta ...Show more
How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball
Category: Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Lucia is a young narrator whose voice will long ring in your ears. She is angry with almost everyone, especially people who tell her what to do. She follows the one rule that makes any sense to her: Don't Do Things You Aren't Proud Of. Orphaned and living with her elderly aunt in pover ...Show more
How to Set a Fire and Why - A Novel by Jesse Ball
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
"Ball has created a voice that echoes the beloved narrators of J. D. Salinger and John Green. . . . With her tragic past, brilliant mind and subversive potential, Lucia could be thought of as a young Lisbeth Salander, or a high-IQ, antiheroic Katniss Everdeen, but with a better sense of humor." --Newsda ...Show more
Samedi the Deafness by Jesse Ball
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
One morning in the park James Sim discovers a man, crumpled on the ground, stabbed in the chest. In the man's last breath, he whispers his confession: Samedi. What follows is a spellbinding game of cat and mouse as James is abducted, brought to an asylum, and seduced by a woman in yellow. Who is lying? ...Show more
Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball
Category: Fiction
An astonishing novel of unjust conviction, lost love and a journalist's obsession. Over the course of several months, eight people vanish from their homes in the same Japanese town, a single playing card found on each door. Known as the 'Narito Disappearances', the crime has authorities baffled - until ...Show more
Silence Once Begun: A Novel by Jesse Ball
Category: Fiction
From the celebrated author of "The Curfew" ("A spare masterwork of dystopian fiction" "--The New York Times Book Review"), Jesse Ball's "Silence Once Begun" is an astonishing novel of unjust conviction, lost love, and a journalist's obsession. Over the course of several months, eight people vanish from ...Show more
The Divers' Game by Jesse Ball
Category: Fiction
From the inimitable mind of award-winning author Jesse Ball, a novel about an unsettlingly familiar society that has renounced the concept of equality--and the devastating consequences of unmitigated power. The old-fashioned struggle for fairness has finally been abandoned. It was a misguided endeavour ...Show more
The Divers' Game - A Novel by Jesse Ball
Category: Fiction
From the inimitable mind of award-winning author Jesse Ball, a novel about an unsettlingly familiar society that has renounced the concept of equality-and the devastating consequences of unmitigated power. The old-fashioned struggle for fairness has finally been abandoned. It was a misguided endeavour. ...Show more