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Part memoir, part inspiration for aspiring writers, And Then? And Then? What Else? traces Daniel Handler's sometimes challenging and often amusing path toward one of the most spectacularly successful writing careers of the twenty-first century. Declaring his love of strange literature, Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil in particular, Handler reflects on the life experiences-some of them deeply personal and revealed for the first time-and the cu...

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Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.

A sexy, skewering dark comedy about two unions--one forged of love and the other of greed--and about the forces that can drive couples together, into dependence, and then into sinister, even supernatural realms.al realms.

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Ya hay muchas historias de amor.Esta es una historia de sexo. Cole tiene 17 años, estudia en el instituto y disfruta haciendo atletismo, dibujando y bromeando con sus amigos. Pero nada de eso importa si lo compara con el sexo.«Digámoslo así: traza una gráfica donde cero signifique que nunca piensas en sexo y diez que no tienes otra cosa en la cabeza, y mientras dibujas la línea yo ya estoy pensando en sexo.» Cole fantasea despierto, ve porno c...

From best-selling, award-winning author Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), a gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic impulses of an all-too-typical young man. Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. 'Let me put it this way, ' he says. 'Draw a number line, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is it's a...

Fascinating, profane . . . One of the most original and realistic depictions of the sex lives of young people to come around in a long time" (LA Times), from bestselling, award-winning Daniel Handler.Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. "Let me put it this way, " he says. "Draw a number line, with zero is, you never think about ...

From bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), an eagerly anticipated, gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic lives and impulses of an all-too-typical young man.Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches in a sketchbook, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters, next to the allure of sex. "Let me put it this way, " he says, "Draw a number line, with zero is...

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Der gutaussehende Ed ist der Star der Basketballmannschaft, die 16-jährige Min eine sensible, künstlerisch angehauchte Filmnärrin. Ihre Beziehung wird kurz, aber heftig: voller Entdeckungen und Überraschungen, voll Bemühen. Und voller Enttäuschung. In einem glühenden, virtuosen Brief erklärt Min, warum es aus ist, und gibt Ed all die Dingezurück, die in ihrer Beziehung eine Rolle gespielt haben. Laura Maire interpretiert diese Liebes- und Tren...

Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.

In a series of intersecting narratives that explore variations of that ineffable feeling of love, Handler--who also writes as Lemony Snicket--crafts a moving and shifting story exploring the frustrating glory of this most troublesome of emotions.

A boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water. Pirates are terrorizing the San Francisco Bay. Phil is a husband, a father, a struggling producer and the owner of a condo with a view of the water. But he'd like to be a rebel and a fortune hunter. Gwen is his daughter. She's fourteen. She's a student, a swimmer and a best friend. But she'd like to be an adventurer and an outlaw. This is a book about our search for ...

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Flannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. Tyrants, perverts, tragic crushes, gossip, cruel jokes, and the hallucinatory effects of absinthe -- Flannery and the seven other friends in the Basic Eight have suffered through it all. But now, on tabloid television, they're calling Flannery a murderer, which is a total lie. It's true that high school can be so stressful sometimes. And it's true that some...

When Joseph goes to stay with his girlfriend Cynthia's family for the summer, he plans running the crafts shack at camp by day, and romping in Cyn's bed by night. As the summer grows hotter and stickier, life in the Glass house begins to shatter in all kinds of irresistibly gruesome ways that only the fiendishly funny imagination of the author of "The Basic Eight" could conjure up.

I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened." Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of a giddy...

Tal vez la proverbial inefabilidad del amor no sea tal, huidizo y elusivo cuando se lo nombra, siempre al borde de la cursilería cuando se lo adjetiva, quizá todo se reduzca a cambiar la perspectiva y abordar este sentimiento desde los humildes adverbios, como se afirma en el libro: El milagro está en los adverbios, en el modo en que se hacen las cosas. El modo en que el amor se manifiesta a pesar de todas las catástrofes, es posible. Y a hab...