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Years after the death of his abusive father, an adult son whose relief overshadowed his other emotions confronts the enduring presence of his father's memory, in a story imparted through hundreds of brief entries that explore their complicated relationship. By the author of Dear Everybody.

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Big Ray

Dear Everybody traces the nuances of a short-lived life, maintaini- ng a tone of finely judged tension between laughter and tears in an involving and sympathetically written work of fiction. Jonathon Bender had something to tell the world, but the world wouldn't listen. However, he left behind him unsent letters addressed to relatives, friends, neighbours, athletics coaches, teachers, classmates, professors, room- mates, psychiatrists, employers, his younger self, former girlfriends, his ex- wife, a TV station and God, among many others. These form the narrative of a remarkable life.

Dear Everybody

A debut novel of love, loss, redemption and betrayal in which one man, in a bid to get his hands on a stash of dirty money without being sent to jail, fakes his own death and, with his wife, sets up a new identity in the Caymen Islands. But things do not go quite according to plan.

Undone

An intense, heartbreaking, new novel from one of the brightest, and most unusual voices in American fiction.'Fine, precise and shocking, but how will Kimball follow this incredible debut?' asked THE TIMES in 2001. HOW MUCH OF US THERE WAS is Michael Kimball's bold reply. It is a small masterpiece.A husband wakes up to find that his wife has had a seizure during the night. An ambulance is called and she is rushed to the Intensive Care Unit at a nearby hospital, where she lies in a coma. By day he sits anxiously beside her. He tries to think of ways to wake her up. He brings familiar objects to her bedside - her books, her hairbrush, flowers from their garden. He talks to her. He exercises her limbs. At night he sleeps in the chair at her bedside, dreaming that she will wake up, so that they can go back home.Years later the story of this same slow death is re-told by their grandson. He wants to understand his grandmother's life and death, what it meant to his grandfather, and what it means to him. He wants to understand the long and deeply loving marriage between his grandparents, and - in his own words - 'how love can accumulate between two people over and through two lifetimes'.How Much of Us There Was is a poignant, heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful novel, from an extraordinary voice in American fiction.

How Much of Us There Was

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Big Ray's obesity and his mean temper define him, at least to his family. When Big Ray dies, his son Daniel puts his feelings aside, for a while. Years later, Daniel attempts to reckon with the enduring, outsized memory of his father. In this stunning novel a middle-aged man comes to terms with his father's death - and with his life. Told in five hundred brief entries, the complexity of this searing story moves back and forth between the past and the present, between an abusive childhood and an adult understanding. Shot through with humour and insight that will resonate with anyone who has a complicated parental relationship, Big Ray is a staggering family story - at once brutal and tender, unusual and unsettling.

Following the huge international success story of UNDONE, Michael Kimball's acclaimed debut thriller, MOUTH TO MOUTH takes the reader deeper still into a world of twisted love, dark passions and ingenious scheming. When a lonely woman falls for the charms of a charismatic distant relation she meets at a wedding in rural Massachusetts, she sees a once-in-a-lifetime chance to escape from a miserable marriage and start afresh. But when her lover suggests that murder is the answer to all their problems, she finds herself drawn relentlessly into a fatal labyrinth of deception, intrigue and madness.

Mouth to Mouth

In a novel of greed and betrayal, Sal Erickson finds himself drawn into his best friend's scheme to fake his own death and abscond with two million dollars of the government's money

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