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A serious, frequently brilliant novel with a sustained intensity that is rare in fiction. It's the most promising first novel that I've encountered this year." ¿Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal"[A] searching, emotionally resonant first novel . . . [Nobody Is Ever Missing] impressed me, and held me to my chair. There's significant talent at work here." ¿Dwight Garner, The New York TimesThe 10th anniversary reissue of Catherine Lacey's beloved...

National Bestseller. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named a best book of March by Apple Books and Amazon, and a most anticipated book by The New York Times, Esquire, The Guardian, Time, BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and Chicago Review of Books"A major novel, and a notably audacious one." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times "It feels fairly rare for a novel to be hugely intelligent and moving and fun in equal measur...

From one of America's fiercest stylists, a roaring epic novel chronicling the life, times and secrets of a notorious artist.

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From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a notorious artist.When X-an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter-falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone's good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not ev...

I consumed it. It is the electric charge we need' Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under One Sunday morning, a mysterious silent figure is found sleeping in a church in an unnamed American town. The congregants call this amnesiac 'Pew' and seek to uncover who they are: their age, their gender, their race, their intentions. Are they an orphan, or something worse? What terrible trouble is Pew running from? And why won't they speak? Unable to ...

The people of this community are stifling, and generous, cruel, earnest, needy, overconfident, fragile and repressive, which is to say that they are brilliantly rendered by their wise maker, Catherine Lacey." --Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers One of Vogue's Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2020, one of the Wall Street Journal's Nine Best Books to Read This Spring, one of BuzzFeed's Most Anticipated Books of 2020, one of Esquire's 20 ...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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A character who has forgotten their name, age, gender and race wakes up on a church bench in a suspicious and god-fearing town, meeting the questions of the locals with an increasingly problematic silence. Colin Barrett and Anne Enright are among the fans of Granta Best of Young American Novelist Lacey.

Longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. One of Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction Books of 2020. One of Amazon's 100 Best Books of 2020. "The people of this community are stifling, and generous, cruel, earnest, needy, overconfident, fragile and repressive, which is to say that they are brilliantly rendered by their wise maker, Catherine Lacey." --Rachel Kushner, author of The Flame...

One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Short Story Collections of 2018. Named a Summer Read by Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Nylon, Bustle and Literary Hub. One of Financial Times and TLS's Best Books of 2018.One of Granta's Best Young American novelists, Catherine Lacey, the Whiting Award-winning author of The Answers, showcases her literary style in short fiction with Certain American States, a collection of stories about ordinary people seeking...

Eine Erkundung der Liebe in Zeiten der Künstlichkeit - »Catherine Lacey spielt in ihrer eigenen Liga.« The New York Times. In hypnotischen Sätzen zieht uns Catherine Laceys Roman hinein in das Girlfriend-Experiment, ins Leben gerufen von Kurt Sky, einem so berühmten wie exzentrischen Schauspieler. Die Geschichte um Kurt und die als »emotionale Freundin« angestellte Mary Parson zeigt uns eine artifizielle, doch allzu reale Welt und hinterfragt...

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These twelve stories from one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists interrogate love, loss and longing as widows take honeymooners to husbands' graves, men representing shadowy interests check in to strange and mysterious hotels, and dead men's shirts are given away. From the author of "The Answers".

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