Jess Walter

"Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause. But when Rye's turn on the soap box catches the eye of well-known activist and suffragette Elizabeth Gurley, he is swept into the world of labor activism-and dirty business. With his brother's life on the line, Rye must evade the barbaric police force, maneuver his way out of the clutches of a wealthy businessman-and figure out for himself what he truly stands for. The Cold Millions is a stunning portrait of class division and familial bonds. In this masterful historical take on the enduring saga of America's economic divide, Jess Walter delivers nothing less than another "literary miracle" (NPR)"--

A Novel

The Cold Millions

Matt Prior is losing his job, his wife, and his house, and he's about to lose his mind—until he discovers a way that he might just possibly be able to save it all ... and have a pretty damn great time doing it, in a comic and heartfelt novel from a National Book Award nominee. 40,000 first printing.

The Financial Lives of the Poets

The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio. The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away in Hollywood, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot searching for the woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years before. Gloriously inventive, funny, tender and constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous and yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful and yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach. 'Magic...A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart' New York Times 'A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor' Booklist 'Hilarious and compelling' Esquire

Beautiful Ruins

We Live in Water, the first collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of our most talked-about writers. In "Thief," a blue-collar worker turns unlikely detective to find out which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund. In "We Live in Water," a lawyer returns to a corrupt North Idaho town to find the father who disappeared thirty years earlier. In "Anything Helps," a homeless man has to "go to cardboard" to raise enough money to buy his son the new Harry Potter book. In "Virgo," a local newspaper editor tries to get back at his superstitious ex-girlfriend by screwing with her horoscope. And the collection's final story transforms slyly from a portrait of Walter's hometown into a moving contemplation of our times.

Stories

We Live in Water

The Way the World Ends

In Over Tumbled Graves, Jess Walter, National Book Award finalist and author of Citizen Vince and The Zero, confronts our fascination with pathology and murder. A thriller of extraordinary depth and dimension, Over Tumbled Graves follows Caroline Mabry, a Spokane police detective searching for a serial murderer.

Over Tumbled Graves

Beginning his witness-protection job at a doughnut restaurant in the week before the 1980 presidential election, small-time thief Vince Camden finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a local politician's troubles, involved in a credit-card scam, and torn between relationships with a beautiful law clerk and a neurotic prostitute. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Citizen Vince

Five days after a terrorist attack decimates his home city, Brian Remy struggles with gaps in his memory pertaining to a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a girlfriend whose name he does not know, and deteriorating eyesight, a situation that is further challenged when he is recruited to gather information for a shadowy intelligence operation. 100,000 first printing.

The Zero

On the last hot day of summer in 1992, gunfire cracked over a rocky knob in northern Idaho, just south of the Canadian border. By the next day three people were dead, and a small war was joined, pitting the full might of federal law enforcement against one well-armed family. Drawing on extensive interviews with Randy Weaver's family, government insiders, and others, Jess Walter traces the paths that led the Weavers to their confrontation with federal agents and led the government to treat a family like a gang of criminals. This is the story of what happened on Ruby Ridge: the tragic and unlikely series of events that destroyed a family, brought down the number-two man in the FBI, and left in its wake a nation increasingly attuned to the dangers of unchecked federal power.

The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver Family

Ruby Ridge

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes--for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous--as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their roles in life and finding inspiration in the unlikeliest places. We all live like we're famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don't want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place to care for the old man. A famous actor in recovery has a one-night stand with the world's most surprising film critic. And in the romantic title story, a shy twenty-one-year-old studying Latin in Rome during "the year of my reinvention" finds himself face-to-face with the Italian actress of his adolescent dreams. Funny, poignant, and redemptive, this collection of short fiction offers a dazzling range of voices, backdrops, and situations. With his signature wit and bighearted approach to the darkest parts of humanity, Walter tackles the modern condition with a timeless touch, once again "solidifying his place in the contemporary canon as one of our most gifted builders of fictional worlds" (Esquire).

And Other Stories

The Angel of Rome

Parable

Christopher A. Darden

In Contempt

Desde a primeira página, percebemos que A Bela Americana é um romance invulgar. Porque nos dá a ler um diário perdido, de partir o coração. Porque nos fala de um músico vergado ao álcool e desesperado por se reencontrar. Porque nos revela um Richard Burton torturado pelo amor de Elizabeth Taylor nas filmagens de Cleópatra. E porque todas essas personagens, tão imperfeitas, tão impossivelmente românticas, estão misteriosamente ligadas umas às outras.Jess Walter escreveu oito livros, alguns dos quais chegaram ao primeiro lugar na lista dos mais vendidos do New York Times. Foi finalista do National Book Award em 2006 e, no mesmo ano, finalista do prémio PEN Literary nas categorias de ficção e não ficção; recebeu, em 2005, o prémio Edgar Allan Poe. O seu trabalho está traduzido em 30 línguas e os seus contos foram publicados em várias publicações, como Best American Short Stories, Harpers e Esquire. O autor vive com a mulher e os três filhos na mesma casa onde cresceu, no estado de Washington.

A Bela Americana

Land of the Blind

Seçil Kıvrak

Tijdens haar nachtdienst wordt een politie-agente geconfronteerd met een aantrekkelijke, ietwat verwarde man die een bekentenis wil afleggen.

Körler ülkesi

Relates the true story behind the shootout at Ruby Ridge between white supremacist Randy Weaver and federal agents, a confrontation that left Weaver's wife and only son dead. Reprint. TV tie-in.

Every Knee Shall Bow

Net als in zijn bestseller Schitterende ruïnes zet Jess Walter in De nietige miljoenen een verbluffend realistisch tijdsbeeld neer. Ditmaal verplaatst hij zich in het Amerika van begin twintigste eeuw. De broers Rye en Gig Dolan scharrelen hun kostje bij elkaar, liften mee op goederentreinen en staan bij corrupte koppelbazen in de rij voor een dag werk. Terwijl de zestienjarige Rye snakt naar een vaste baan en een eigen huis, droomt zijn oudere broer Gig van een betere wereld. Samen met andere vakbondsmannen strijdt hij voor een eerlijk loon en een fatsoenlijke behandeling. Rye deelt het idealisme van zijn broer niet en kiest zijn eigen weg, maar toch valt hij voor Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, een onverschrokken activiste en feministe. Gig daarentegen heeft een oogje op Ursula the Great, een stripteasedanseres die in een kooi optreedt met een vraatzuchtige poema. Zij brengt de jonge mannen in contact met een minstens zo gevaarlijke mijnmagnaat. De wereld van de broers is een wirwar van uitbuiters, mijnen, bordelen, kroegen en agenten, en het lijkt onmogelijk om daaruit te ontsnappen. De nietige miljoenen is een meeslepende roman over eenvoudige idealen die botsen met de harde werkelijkheid. Het Amerika van toen blijkt griezelig veel te lijken op onze tijd. De nietige miljoenen (The Cold Millions) behoort tot de beste boeken van 2020 volgens: NEW YORK TIMES (HISTORICAL FICTION), PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, BLOOMBERG, USA TODAY, NPR FRESH AIR, NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, ESQUIRE en OPRAH.

De nietige miljoenen

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter—a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favorite These twelve stories—published over the last five years in Harper’s, The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, Playboy, and other publications—veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This is a world of lost fathers and redemptive conmen, of meth tweakers on desperate odysseys and men committing suicide by fishing. We Live in Water is a darkly comic, heartfelt collection of stories from a “ridiculously talented writer” (New York Times), “one of the freshest voices in American literature” (Dallas Morning News).

Kauniit rauniot Vuonna 1962 aurinkoisella Italian rannikolla pitkä, laiha nainen, kuin valkoinen kangastus lähestyy Pasquale Tursia veneellä. Nainen on näyttelijä, amerikkalainen tähti, ja hän on kuolemassa. Tarina jatkuu nykyhetkessä, maailman toisella laidalla, kun Pasquale ilmestyy elokuvastudion takapihalle - etsimään salaperäistä naista, jonka hän viimeksi näki hotellissaan vuosikymmeniä aiemmin. Tapahtumat ulottuvat viidelle vuosikymmenelle: aina Kleopatran ylellisistä lavasteista Edinburgh Fringe –festivaalin nuhjuiseen rellestykseen. Ja matkan varrella sympaattisen italialaisen hotellinpitäjän, Pasqualen elämään kietoutuu joukko toinen toistaan merkillisempiä henkilöitä; muun muassa railakas Richard Burton, jonka vietit itse asiassa käynnistävät koko tarinan. Kauniit rauniot on kekseliäs ja jatkuvasti yllättävä kertomus kiehtovan epätäydellisistä ihmisistä, jotka liikkuvat elämänsä kallioisilla rannoilla pitäen kiinni mahdottomista unelmistaan.

Kauniit rauniot

Fra en søvnig italiensk kystlandsby på 60-tallet til nåtidens Hollywood og Edinburgh. Alle de vakre nederlagene er en varm, rik og sprudlende morsom roman med et uforglemmelig persongalleri. Hvis Jonathan Franzen hadde skrevet strandlektyre, ville dette vært resultatet. Romanen er herlig idérik og konstant overraskende. En kjærlighetshistorie om langt fra feilfrie, men fascinerende mennesker, som navigerer i tilværelsens farlige farvann mens de klamrer seg til sine usannsynlige drømmer. En dans på stram line, en fortellerbragd ... Du kommer til å elske denne boken. New York Times Book Review

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