Editions & Tote: July – December 2023

John Bowen

“Genteel, if peculiar, mayhem is in store . . . [For] people who like Myra Breckinridge as well as Miss Marple; fans of Beryl Bainbridge, Russell Greenan and Patricia Highsmith; those who feel Barbara Pym-ish on some days and Stephen King-ish on others.” —Michele Slung, The Washington Post

A wry, macabre tale of simple country living, brutal murder, and a reasonably happy couple, from our “most startlingly offbeat suspense novelist” (Gore Vidal). 

Phyllis Paul

Foreword by Jeremy M. Davies

“Beautifully executed, deeply unsettling, [Twice Lost] is enigmatic and ambiguous in the way of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Peter Weir’s film Picnic at Hanging Rock . . . Astonishing.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

Who could have been so cruel as to do away with poor Vivian Lambert? And why oh why couldn’t she just stay dead?

Dinah Brooke

Foreword by Ottessa Moshfegh

“A ferocious comedy of middle-class dysfunction . . . published to controversy in 1973 . . . A masterpiece.” —Claire Allfree, The Telegraph

“Extraordinary . . . This novel [is] full of horrors but energetic, funny and tense as a spring . . . Lord Jim at Home, inspired by a real story but full of the kind of truth only fiction can deliver, plants its devilish brilliance deep in the reader and won’t let go.” —John Self, The Guardian

Elizabeth Mavor

“Funny, surprising and unpredictable. This extraordinary novel . . .  recalls Barbara Comyns or Muriel Spark . . . It is old-fashioned in the best way: intrepid, eccentric, and not giving a damn.” —John Self, The Guardian

A finalist for the 1973 Booker Prize, A Green Equinox is the beguiling tale of a brilliant young woman who falls in love first with her lover’s wife, and then with his mother.

Mary Gaitskill

“Gaitskill is an era-defining talent, one of the best American fiction writers working today, and the book is a collage of fiction, autobiography, and fairy tale that seeks, through ‘ordered disorder,’ to approach a fundamental thing about making art.” —Valerie Stivers, Compact Magazine

A bewitching collage of fiction, memoir, and mythography from the author unique in her “ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don’t even know we are living.” (Parul Sehgal, New York Times Magazine) 

Henry Bean

With a new foreword by the author

“This debut, or better say rebut, is our first masterpiece this decade—and it was written in 1982 . . . A literary phenomenon of the first order . . . Bean’s sentences approach the speed of light without any loss of iridescent precision.” —Vincenzo Barney, Los Angeles Review of Books

An unsung masterpiece squatting in the ashes of the sixties, The Nenoquich is the diary of a seducer hammering on the walls of his own loneliness.