Vintage, February 2001. Trade Paperback. This is a beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book. --San Francisco Chronicle National Bestseller Pulitzer Prize Finalist A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior..... More
McSweeney's, August 2006. Hardcover. A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, assailed by mysterious forces, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, Jemma Claflin, a medical student, finds..... More
Vintage, October 2007. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children --the so-called Lost Boys--was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by..... More
Vintage, June 2010. Trade Paperback. National Bestseller The true story of one family, caught between America's two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy..... More
McSweeney's, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. The Wild Things -- based very loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze -- is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can't control. His father is gone, his mother..... More
McSweeney's, November 2013. First Edition. Cloth. To commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the journal called "a key barometer of the literary climate" by The New York Times and twice honored with a National Magazine Award for fiction, here is The Best of McSweeney's--a comprehensive collection of the most remarkable work..... More
Pub Group West, January 2006. Oversized Clothbound. From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the depths of the cosmos to the text on our T-shirts, Lawrence Weschler finds strange connections wherever he looks. The farther one travels (through geography, through art, through science, through time), the more everything..... More
Macadam Cage Pub, February 2004. First Edition. Cloth. The Night Face Up is about Theo who learns to associate abuse with affection while growing up in the juvenile detention facilities in Chicago. The second half of the book concerns itself with how Theo's desires play out as an adult. In..... More
McSweeney's, March 2012. Hardcover. Adam Levin's debut novel The Instructions was one of the most buzzed-about books of 2010, a sprawling universe of "death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth" (Rolling Stone). Now, in the stories of Hot Pink, Levin delivers ten smaller worlds, shaken snow-globes of..... More
McSweeney's Books, November 2012. Hardcover. Last year Rick Bass traveled to Rwanda, roaming from the bustle of Kigali to the breathtaking volcanic preserves of the last few mountain gorillas. Now he offers an extraordinary portrait of what can be found in that country today?heartbreaking evidence of the genocide that occurred..... More
McSweeney's, June 2011. Trade Paperback. Issue 38 is due to be a real beauty, with stories pulled in from all over the world--a grand tour, in prose, of a dozen places you have perhaps neglected to visit, up to now. There is Ariel Dorfman in Paris, with one eye on..... More
McSweeney's, March 2009. Trade Paperback. Featuring new work by Wells Tower, Michael Cera, and Etgar Keret, along with as always a bevy of lesser-known but nonetheless excellent writers investigating everything from mental hospitals to sentient mists, and possibly some kind of poster, Issue 30 warrants every ounce of attention and..... More
McSweeney's, January 2005. Hardcover. McSweeney's began in 1998 as a literary journal, edited by Dave Eggers, that published only works rejected from other magazines. But after the first issue, the journal began to publish pieces written with McSweeney's in mind. Soon after, McSweeney's attracted works from some of the finest..... More
McSweeneys, June 2005. Novelty. Issue #16 of our Quarterly Journal! 3 volume set in a wrap around slipcase. Unread, still in shrink wrap. More
McSweeney's, May 2009. Hardcover. Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are 19 years old, God-fearing, and eager to start a family, but a week before their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop..... More
McSweeney's, June 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. A novel in the form of linked stories that explores the limitations of memory and the frustrations of the author's life, as he cares for his two daughters and his handicapped wife, whose condition worsens as he struggles with his own sense of mortality..... More
McSweeney's, December 2011. Hardcover. This issue is a two-book package, held together by a cardboard bellyband. Our first issue of 2012 features all kinds of amazing stuff--so much, from so many good people, that we turned it into two beautiful little books. There are new stories from Neil Gaiman and..... More
McSweeney's, 2008, January 2008. Soft Cover. Oblong 12mo. More
McSweeney's, 2008, January 2008. Soft Cover. Oblong 12mo. More
McSweeney's Books, January 2002. Trade Paperback. More
McSweeney's, April 2003. Hardcover. Some light scrapes on the front cover. More
