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198 pp. 6 x 9 $24.95 Paper, ISBN 13: 978-0-9792091-8-5
Art: copyright by Bernadette Glorioso. All rights reserved.
From the author of B,
and On the Way to my Father’s Funeral, comes yet another masterful, highly stylized and quirky narrative masterwork,
in which the narrator remembers or imagines or invents an ambiguous relationship with a complex woman known in the novel only
as “You.”
“You are warily approaching the first sentence of my new novel, not wanting to be taken
unaware, or not wanting to be plunged into something from which there is no perceptible exit or perhaps both at once, separate
and inseparable concerns. The opening sentence, with your unspoken consent, has edged its way into the barely remembered past.”
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Praise for YOU
"YOU is a wise, witty meditation on the mysteries of love. And because the brilliant Jonathan
Baumbach is the author, it is also a house of mirrors in which a single relationship is fractured into infinite possibilities
and the corridors lead deep into a labyrinth of memory and desire. At every point, YOU offers us a new way to look at ourselves,
startling us with uncanny reflections."--Joanna Scott
"No one is smarter or funnier about the absurdities and
agonies of modern love. Reading YOU is an affair to relish and remember."--Hilma Wolitzer
About Jonathan Baumbach:
Born in Brooklyn, son of a painter, father of a filmmaker, Jonathan Baumbach
is author of 15 books, including B, On the Way to My Father's Funeral, D-Tours, and Reruns.
His short stories have been published in Esquire, Zoetrope, TriQuarterly, Partisan Review,
Iowa Review, and Boulevard, among many other publications. And his work has been featured in many anthologies,
including: Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Full Court: a Literary Anthology of
Basketball, and On The Couch: Great American Stories about Therapy. His website is: www.jonathanbaumbach.com
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