Victor Lodato

How do you love the son you never expected to have? How do you love the mother who can't let you in? Edgar & Lucy An unlikely love story. "I love this book. Profoundly spiritual and hilariously specific...an unusual and intimate epic that manages to capture the wonder and terror of both child and parenthood with an uncanny clarity." - Lena Dunham, bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl "This tale gradually exerts a fiendish grip on the reader" - Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand “Took my breath away.” — Sophie McManus, author of The Unfortunates "A quirky coming-of-age novel that deepens into something dark and strange without losing its heart or its sense of wonder." - Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of The Leftovers "Victor Lodato may be our bard of the sadness, humor, and confusion of loss. He senses the absurdities and elation of mourning and childhood with a capacious precision that brings to mind J.D. Salinger, Lorrie Moore, Karen Russell, even James Joyce. Edgar and Lucy will make you feel things you haven't felt in ages." - Daniel Torday, author of The Last Flight of Poxl West

A Novel

Edgar and Lucy

Honey

Mathilda investigates her older sister's shattering death and learns perplexing truths when she accesses her sister's computer journals and reads about a secret underworld life.

Mathilda Savitch

Sally Rooney

Richard Lambert

Kathleen Alcott

Bret Anthony Johnston

Celeste Ng

This year's six shortlisted stories for the world's richest short story prize, the £30,000 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.

Six Shorts 2017: The finalists for the 2017 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award

Herman Melville, Volume I

Mathilda

"Clive arrives unexpectedly at the house of his mother and his sister. He says that he is fleeing from the police, but perhaps it's another one of his delusions. Unbeknownst to him, he has shown up on a tragic anniversary. Three years prior, his sister's child was killed in a brutal shooting. As fate seems bent on shattering the walls, mother Mae valiantly attempts to keep house"--Publisher description.

Motherhouse

Romandebüt um eine 13-jährige pubertierende Jugendliche mit einer blühenden Fantasie, die viel riskiert um herauszufinden, wer ihre Schwester vor einen Zug gestossen hat.

Roman

Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean Greer’s Arthur Less: Honey Fasinga, the glamorous daughter of a notorious New Jersey mobster, is returning home at last, ready to reckon with her violent past. As a rebellious teenager, Honey managed to escape her father’s circle of influence and reinvent herself in a world of art and beauty, working for a high-end auction house in Los Angeles. Now in her twilight years, she decides to return home and unexpectedly falls in love. But in her family, nothing has changed. When her grandnephew Michael bursts into her life in what appears to be a drug-fueled frenzy, and her Lexus gets jacked, it’s hard to keep minding her own business. As old cruelties begin to resurface, Honey is no longer sure what she really wants—to forgive or to avenge. This electrifying literary breakout from PEN USA Award-winning author Victor Lodato is a masterful and deeply moving portrait of love in all its forms, of moral ambiguity, and of inspiring change—a story of female rage that asks the question: What are the limits of compassion in a world gone mad?

Edgar a huit ans, et la peau si blanche qu’elle en est presque translucide. Ultra-sensible et délicat, il vit entre une jeune mère irresponsable, Lucy, et une grand-mère aimante mais rongée par la mort de son fils. C’est sur ce lien fragile qui unit les deux femmes que l’enfant avance comme un funambule dans une existence ponctuée par les rituels et les histoires qu’il s’invente. Mais un jour, le lien se rompt, c’est la chute, et la main secourable qui se tend n’est peut-être pas celle qu’il aurait fallu saisir... Une histoire d’amour et de deuil aux allures de thriller poétique et poignant.

Edgar et Lucy

C'est l'Amérique des minutes de silence, des peurs irraisonnées, des enfants qui se déguisent en terroristes. Mathilda Savitch, adolescente en colère, déborde d'imagination sur les circonstances de la disparition d'Helene, sa soeur, écrasée par un train. Une imagination dont elle joue au quotidien, que ce soit pour torturer son chien bien-aimé ou pour attirer l'attention de ses parents aux yeux desquels elle se sent transparente. Cruellement inventive, Mathilda cherche sa place. L'auteur impose un style nerveux, mélange d'interrogations et d'affirmations péremptoires, d'innocence et de dureté, de naïveté et de perversité. Sans clichés ni complaisances.

Now including an excerpt from Victor Lodato's novel, EDGAR AND LUCY, which Lena Dunham praises as "an unusual and intimate epic." A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR BEST BOOK OF 2009 A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF 2009 A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2009 WINNER OF THE PEN USA AWARD FOR FICTION A fiercely funny and touching debut novel about a young girl trying to find out the truth behind her sister's death I have a sister who died. Did I tell you this already? I did but you don't remember, you didn't understand the code . . . She died a year ago, but in my mind sometimes it's five minutes. In the morning sometimes it hasn't even happened yet. For a second I'm confused, but then it all comes back. It happens again. Fear doesn't come naturally to Mathilda Savitch. She prefers to look right at the things nobody else can bring themselves to mention: for example, the fact that her beloved older sister is dead, pushed in front of a train by a man still on the loose. Her grief-stricken parents have basically been sleepwalking ever since, and it is Mathilda's sworn mission to shock them back to life. Her strategy? Being bad. Mathilda decides she's going to figure out what lies behind the catastrophe. She starts sleuthing through her sister's most secret possessions—e-mails, clothes, notebooks, whatever her determination and craftiness can ferret out. More troubling, she begins to apply some of her older sister's magical charisma and powers of seduction to the unraveling situations around her. In a storyline that thrums with hints of ancient myth, Mathilda has to risk a great deal—in fact, has to leave behind everything she loves—in order to discover the truth. Mathilda Savitch bursts with unforgettably imagined details: impossible crushes, devastating humiliations, the way you can hate and love your family at the same moment, the times when you and your best friend are so weak with laughter that you can't breathe. Startling, funny, touching, odd, truthful, page-turning, and, in the end, heartbreaking, Mathilda Savitch is an extraordinary debut. Once you make the acquaintance of Mathilda Savitch, you will never forget her.

A fiercely funny and touching debut novel about a girl with a sharp and mischievous voice of her own - and her quest to discover the truth about her sister's death.

Medo é algo que não existe para Mathilda Savitch. Ela encara o que a maioria das pessoas prefere nem mencionar: por exemplo, o fato de que sua querida irmã mais velha está morta, jogada na frente de um trem por um homem ainda à solta. Seu pais, consumidos pelo luto, agem como sonâmbulos. A missão de Mathilda é chocá-los para trazê-los de volta à vida. Sua estratégia? Ser malvada. Assim, ela inicia uma investigação que expõe tudo o que a irmã possuía de mais secreto — e-mails, cadernos, qualquer coisa que sua determinação e astúcia consigam encontrar — no momento em que todos a seu redor querem apenas esquecer a dor. No entanto, o que Mathilda não sabe é que precisará arriscar muito, e deixar para trás tudo o que ama, a fim de descobrir a verdade. Um livro de paixões impossíveis e humilhações devastadoras, que mostra como podemos ao mesmo tempo amar e odiar nossa família. Surpreendente, engraçado, comovente, estranho, verdadeiro, encantador e, no final, emocionante. Mathilda Savitch é uma estreia impressionante.

A fiercely funny and touching debut novel of a young girl uncovering the truth about her sister’s death. Fear doesn’t come naturally to Mathilda Savitch. She prefers to look directly at things nobody else can even mention: for example, her beloved older sister’s death. She was pushed in front of a train by a man who is still on the loose, and after a year of searching for clues, Mathilda has come no closer to the truth about Helene’s murder…until she cracks her email password and a whole secret life emerges — one that swiftly draws Mathilda into her sister’s world of clouded motives and strange emotions. If she can find the keys to Helene’s past, she’s sure she can wake her family from their nightmare of grief. But in crossing into that underworld and tracing her sister’s footsteps, she has to risk everything that matters to her. Mathilda Savitch is a poignant, furiously funny, and tender page-turner from an extraordinary debut novelist.

Victor Lodato

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