“A lightning bolt to a parking meter certainly packs a punch, but so does every sentence and scene of this exuberant novel. Mary Kay Zuravleff writes so well—with such wit and compassion and wry intelligence—that she can make the daily, domestic life that follows Owen Lerner’s encounter with the transcendent as electrifying as the lightning strike itself. A suburban marriage, a young romance, gymnastics, brain chemistry, backyard barbeque, wherever Zuravleff aims her keen eye, something transformative happens, the way a thunderbolt turns sand to glass. 'Man Alive!' is vividly alive and breathing. A sparkling book.” — Alice McDermott, National Book Award-winning author of "After This" and "Someone"
Fiona Maazel, author of "Woke Up Lonely" (Graywolf Press) and "Last Last Chance," is winner of the Bard Prize for Fiction and a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree. Her work has appeared in BOMB, Bookforum, N+1, The New York Times Book Review, Tin House and many other publications. Fiona teaches at Brooklyn College, New York University, Princeton and Columbia. She lives in Brooklyn. Read our Q&A with Fiona. Twitter: @fionamaazel Facebook: Fiona Maazel
Susan Coll
Susan Coll, author of the forthcoming novel, "The Stager" (Sarah Crichton Books, July 2014), works at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. She is the author of the novels "Beach ...More...
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