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From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home--reluctantly--to Maine after the death of her mother.Can you ever truly go home again?An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she's ...

Kate Christensen's new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more could you ask?"--Richard Russo, author of Somebody's Fool"To the great literature of going home again we can now add Kate Christensen's superb new novel Welcome Home, Stranger, a tr...

?Christensen is a forceful writer whose . . . prose is visceral and poetic. . . . She is a portrait artist, drawing in miniature, capturing the light within.??San Francisco ChronicleFrom the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home?reluctantly?to Maine after the death of her mother.Can you ever tr...

The 1950s ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage-a retro cruise from Long Beach to Hawaii and back-before heading to the scrapyard. For the guests on board, it's a chance to experience a bygone era of decadent luxury, complete with fine dining, classic highballs, string quartets, and sophisticated jazz. Smoking is allowed but not cell phones-or children, for that matter. But this is the second decade of an uncertain new millenni...

The 1950s ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage-a retro cruise from Long Beach to Hawaii and back-before heading to the scrapyard. For the guests on board, it's a chance to experience a bygone era of decadent luxury, complete with fine dining, classic highballs, string quartets, and sophisticated jazz. Smoking is allowed but not cell phones-or children, for that matter. But this is the second decade of an uncertain new millenni...

Hugo Whittier, quarantenne ex gigolo, ex rampollo di buona famiglia, vive in solitudine, mantenendosi con quel che gli rimane dell'eredità, abbordando di tanto in tanto belle ragazze, annotando pensieri filosofici sui suoi taccuini, cucinandosi pasti da gourmet e fumando un'incredibile quantità di sigarette, consapevole del fatto che, essendo affetto da un raro morbo curabile solo lasciando perdere il tabacco, morirà giovane. Ma morire giovane...

The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartment building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For decades it was the happy home (or so he thought) of poet Harry Quirk and his wife, Luz, a nurse, and of their two children: Karina, now a fervent Freegan, and Hector, now in the clutches of a cultish Christian community. But Luz has found (and destroyed) some poems of Harry's that ignite her long-simmering suspicions...

Die US-Schriftstellerin Kate Christensen zählt spätestens seit ihrem Roman "Feldmans Frauen" zu den großen Stimmen der amerikanischen Literatur. Für "Feldmans Frauen" erhielt sie den Pen/Faulkner Award, und die Brigitte urteilte: "Das beste Buch des Jahres." Auch für ihren neuen Roman "Das Ehespiel" wählt Kate Christensen ihre Heimat New York als Setting. Lustvoll, scharfzüngig und anrührend führt sie uns die tragischen, absurden und komischen...

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In the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, rests a huge rose-colored apartment building called The Astral. For decades it was the happy home of the poet Harry Quirk, his wife, Luz, and their two children: Karina, now a fervent freegan, and Hector, now in the clutches of a cultish Christian community. But when Luz finds poems that ignite her long-simmering suspicions of infidelity, Harry is summarily kicked out, leaving him to rec...

From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of "The Great Man" comes a scintillating novel of love, loss, and literary rivalry set in rapidly changing Brooklyn.

The scintillating novel by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author.

The scintillating novel by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author.

From the author of "In the Drink" comes a compelling novel about a man smoking himself to death. A literary tour de force of bitter humor and gorgeously articulated misanthropy to rival the works of Martin Amis and John Lanchester.

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Josie is a Manhattan psychotherapist living a comfortable life with her husband and daughter. Raquel is a Los Angeles rock star with a platinum album and the attendant money and fame. When Josie realizes her marriage is over, and Raquel finds herself at the center of a scandal, these old friends take off for Mexico City where sweltering heat, new acquaintances, and tequila-fueled nights rapidly spiral out of control. In this vibrant novel, awa...

A delectable memoir about the transformative power of food, Blue Plate Special is a deeply personal narrative in which food becomes the vehicle for exploring a life. Here, novelist Kate Christensen tells her own story, from her unorthodox childhood in 1960s Berkeley as the daughter of a legal activist who ruled the house with his fists to her extraordinary success as a PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author. Hungry not just for food, but for love a...

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Christensen pens a scintillating comedy of life among the avant-garde--of theuntidy truths, needy egos, and jostling for position behind the glossy facadeof artistic greatness--in this PEN Faulkner Award-winning story of a New YorkCity painter living in the heroic generation of the 1940s and 1950s.

Jeremy Thrane seems to have everything. As the long-time boyfriend of the handsome (but deeply closeted) movie star Ted Masterson, he lives rent-free in a beautiful apartment on the top floor of Ted's Manhattan brownstone and has an easy job that gives him plenty of time to read books and write his novel. When an influential gossip columnist overhears Jeremy talking about Ted, Jeremy's perfect world begins to crumble: in just a few hours Ted a...