Showing results for "Allyson" in Literature & Fiction

Acclaimed author of The Adults Alison Espach’s short story "In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People" is an at-once hilarious and heart-breaking portrait of a dead woman’s marriage and the Volvo that stood in the middle of it all.

Wenn es nach Jeremy ginge, würde Linett, so wie die Hochzeitsvorbereitungen, in den letzten Zügen liegen. In den letzten Atemzügen. Denn Linett soll ein Vampir werden – wie er. Leider schwankt Linett gehörig zwischen ihrem menschlichen Leben und der Liebe zu Jeremy. Dabei ist das Leben als Vampir doch gar nicht so übel. Zumindest wenn man nicht auf Linetts Pro- und Kontra-Liste nachsieht. Aber es wird noch besser (oder schlechter – je nachdem, wie man es betrachtet): Ausgerechnet Linetts erklärter Todfeind Lorenzo Sivori taucht bei ihnen auf und bittet um Unterschlupf.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ""A master comedian with a virtuoso prose style has produced an audacious, original and highly disturbing book . . . an incandescent satire."" —Giles Harvey, The New York Times Magazine From the...

Pauline soll Gaylord helfen, sich von einem Vampir in einen Menschen zu verwandeln. Wer ahnt denn, dass man die Pest mit der Cholera bekämpfen muss? Eine halbe Stunde – mehr braucht Pauline nicht, um Gaylord klarzumachen, dass er ihre Entführung bereuen wird. Nur das Flüchten, das muss sie noch üben. Denn Gaylord kommt jedem ihrer kreativen Fluchtpläne zuvor. Als plötzlich seine Verlobte vor der Tür steht, wendet sich das Blatt und Pauline fasst einen Entschluss. Sie will ihrem Entführer das vampirische Leben endgültig zur Hölle machen.

A mordantly funny, all-too-real novel in the vein of Tom Perotta and Emma Straub about a suburban American family who have to figure out how to survive themselves and their neighbors in the wake of a global calamity that upends all of modern life. It’s Tuesday morning in Lincolnwood, New...

A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in this hilarious, addictive, and sharply observant debut novel. The White Elephant looms large over the quaint suburban town of Willard Park: a gaudy, newly constructed behemoth of a home, it soars over the neighborhood, dwarfing the...

Audiobook performed by George Newbern, Karen White, Michael Crouch, Jenna Lamia, Sophie Amoss, and Allyson Ryan A debut short story collection in the tradition of writers like Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, and George Saunders—complex, imaginative, and refreshingly original—now on audio as part...

“As intellectually playful as the best of Thomas Pynchon and as sardonically warm as the best of Kurt Vonnegut, The Heap is both a hilarious send-up of life under late capitalism and a moving exploration of the peculiar loneliness of the early 21st century. A masterful and humane gem of a...

An NPR Books We Love 2025 One of Brooklyn Public Library’s Books We Love 2025 The world has stopped. But Rachel is just getting started… It’s spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein—mother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklynite—is stuck inside. But her newly awakened sexual desire...

A wry and poignant debut novel about a man’s search for true connection that is “both knowing and cutting, a satire of internet culture that is also a moving portrait of a lost human being” (Los Angeles Times). “A knowing and thought-provoking exploration of love, modern isolation, and...

The novel that inspired the acclaimed Rebecca Miller film Maggie's Plan, starring Julianne Moore, Ethan Hawke, and Greta Gerwig. Isabel, Anna, Beth, and Maggie are women who aren’t afraid to take it all. Whether spearheading a pregnancy lingerie company, conspiring to return a husband to his...

In this razor-sharp novel for fans of When Life Gives You Lululemons, a Manhattan socialite turns her spin instructor into a fitness superstar to impress her friends. But can she keep her little project under control? Or has she created a monster? Julia Summers seems to have it all: a...

In the shadows of a seismic shift in American politics comes Tom Rachman's timely and hilarious new work. Basket of Deplorables takes an incisive and satirical look at the United States in the era of Trump data breaches, liberal self-righteousness, red-hat rancor, Starbucks macchiatos, Ultimate Fighting factories, and Internet sinkholes.