August 2011 Book Releases
In August we see new novels from Tom Perrotta, Julie Otsuka, Nicholson Baker, Robert Olen Butler and DBC Pierre plus a sequel to Alexandra Fuller's Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight.
Grove, August 6, 2011
Robert Olen Butler delivers a literary romance and a portrait of a relationship taken backwards from its breaking point to its beginning.
Penguin Press, August 23, 2011
In what amounts to a sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller revisits her story of survival in Afrrica, this time with the focus on her mother, Nicola.
Simon & Schuster, August 9, 2011
Returning to the erotic content of such novels as Vox and The Fermata which put him on the literary map, Nicholson Bakerimagines a world in which one's every sexually desire is easily fulfilled.
W.W. Norton, August 8, 2011
DBC Pierre's disaffected twenty-smething protagonist has decided to end it all, but not quickly. Instead, he travels betweens between London, Tokyo, and Berlin in what he views as a terminal adventure.
Knopf, August 1, 2011
In The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka portrays a group of Japanese mail order brides in San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century.
St. Martins, August 2011
When 100 people are raptured from a suburban enclave, those left behind - "the leftovers" - are left to deal with their abandonment issues.
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1. A Small Hotel by Robert Olen Butler
Grove, August 6, 2011
Robert Olen Butler delivers a literary romance and a portrait of a relationship taken backwards from its breaking point to its beginning.
2. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
Penguin Press, August 23, 2011
In what amounts to a sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller revisits her story of survival in Afrrica, this time with the focus on her mother, Nicola.
3. House of Holes: A Book of Raunch by Nicholson Baker
Simon & Schuster, August 9, 2011
Returning to the erotic content of such novels as Vox and The Fermata which put him on the literary map, Nicholson Bakerimagines a world in which one's every sexually desire is easily fulfilled.
4. Lights Out In Wonderland by DBC Pierre
W.W. Norton, August 8, 2011
DBC Pierre's disaffected twenty-smething protagonist has decided to end it all, but not quickly. Instead, he travels betweens between London, Tokyo, and Berlin in what he views as a terminal adventure.
5. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Knopf, August 1, 2011
In The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka portrays a group of Japanese mail order brides in San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century.
6. The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
St. Martins, August 2011
When 100 people are raptured from a suburban enclave, those left behind - "the leftovers" - are left to deal with their abandonment issues.
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