Books by The Overlook Press
The Empire Of Tea
by Alan Macfarlane, Iris MacFarlane, The Overlook Press
The author traces the fascinating history of this remarkable plant, from its initial uses as an aid to Buddhist meditation in China during the fourth century B.C. through its remarkable explosion of popularity all around the world, becoming a valued commodity that would change world history. 17,500 first printing.
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Ayn Rand
by The Overlook Press, Jeffrey Britting, Jeffery Britting
Enhanced by rare photographs, an incisive portrait of the seminal twentieth-century author describes her early life, immigration to America, philosophical and literary contributions, lasting influence on the literary world, and diverse newspaper articles, notes, novels, essays, and other acclaimed works. 17,500 first printing.
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Dragon's Eye
by The Overlook Press, Andy Oakes
When eight bodies wash ashore bearing wounds reminiscent of torture and captivity by the Communist Party, Chief Investigator Sun Piao is the only person with the guts to follow the case, and it takes him deep into the heart of a modern China beset by suspicion and paranoia. A first novel. 35,000 first printing.
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Hash
by Torgny Lindgren, The Overlook Press
In a small town ravaged by a tuberculosis epidemic, two very different men--Robert Maser, a traveling garment salesman who is actually fugitive Nazi leader Martin Borman, and Lars, a local schoolteacher--wander the countryside in search of the world's finest hash. Reprint.
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Hash
by Torgny Lindgren, The Overlook Press
In a small town ravaged by a tuberculosis epidemic, two very different men--Robert Maser, a traveling garment salesman who is actually fugitive Nazi leader Martin Borman, and Lars, a local schoolteacher--wander the countryside in search of the world's finest hash.
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Much Obliged, Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse, The Overlook Press
Another classic Bertie and Jeeves collection from celebrated humorist P. G. Wodehouse, Much Obliged Jeeves features the wealthy, yet scarce in intellect, Bertie Wooster in a series of unfortunate circumstances where his put upon valet, Jeeves, must come to the rescue. British comedy fans will laugh aloud at Wodehouse's depiction of upper-class society.
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Virginia Woolf
by The Overlook Press, Hermione Lee, Mary Ann Caws
"A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
While Virginia Woolf--one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers--has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing to Virginia Woolf's own belief in the fluidity and elusiveness of identity, Lee comes at her subject from a multitude of perspectives, producing a richly layered portrait of the writer and the woman that leaves all of her complexities and contradictions intact. Such issues as sexual abuse, mental illness, and suicide are brought into balance with the immensity of her literary achievement, her heroic commitment to her work, her generosity and wit, and her sanity and strength.
It is not often that biography offers the satisfactions of great fiction--but this is clearly what Hermione Lee has achieved. Accessible, intelligent, and deeply pleasurable to read, her Virginia Woolf will undoubtedly take its place as the standard biography for years to come.
"One of the most impressive biographies of the decade: moving, eloquent, powerful as both literary and social history."
--Financial Times
"The most distinguished study of Woolf yet." --The New Republic
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Virginia Woolf
by The Overlook Press, Hermione Lee, Mary Ann Caws
Many of the accompanying illustrations showing Woolf and intimates from the famed Bloomsbury Circle-which included economist John Maynard Keynes and biographer Lytton Strachey-are published here for the very first time, along with other rare photos and po
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Boomtown
by The Overlook Press, Greg Williams, A. F. Carter
After the Y2K panic had subsided and the streets of Times Square were cleared, America woke up to a new century shocked to find itself more or less the same as it was before. Following the lives of a group of sharply drawn characters in this uncannily hip and savagely satirical new novel from the acclaimed Sewanee Writers? Series, Greg Williams takes us to the heart of the postmillennial psyche.
Jonathan Scarver, CEO of Internet start-up Allminder.com, has Midas-like visions of wealth and an IPO scheduled for late spring guaranteed to skyrocket the value of his stock options to obscenity, if he can only manage to keep it a secret that the company is nearly bankrupt. His publicity director, Brad Smith, has been relying on the comfort of all-night parties to relieve the stress of work and to drown out the calling of a secret ambition. Around his life circles Nicole, a struggling actress-slash-waitress coping with a post-breakup depression. In a series of just-missed chance encounters and lost opportunities of the kind that can only happen in Manhattan, Brad and Nicole's orbits nearly collide and are then repelled, spiraling with the city's gravitational pull toward their destiny.
A "Bright Lights, Big City" for the dot.com age, "Boomtown" exposes with dry irony and magnetic wisdom the hubris, vanity, and deceit that fueled the staggering climb and precipitous fall of that era's ambition.
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Boomtown
by The Overlook Press, Greg Williams, A. F. Carter
An Edgar Award Nominee
One cop strives to bring order and justice to a lawless boomtown. Police captain Delia Mariola is still struggling to drive the predatory drug dealers from the rustbelt town of Baxter, before the new Nissan plant owners lose faith in this forgotten corner of America. It doesn’t help that a boomtown has grown up just outside of city limits?a wild west designed to feed every unsavory desire of the workers building the plant. And like vultures homing in on the weak, criminal gangs from the big cities have also been drawn to the boomtown, knowing how freely money will flow to those willing to supply drugs and women to these workers far from home, looking for comfort and distraction. With no police actively enforcing the rule of law in the unregulated town, the criminals have turned on each other as they try to claim control.
In the midst of this drug war, a young prostitute’s body turns up on the streets of Baxter, well within Delia’s jurisdiction to investigate. Hoping this might be the case that allows her to finally be able to crack down on Boomtown, Delia is relentless in her pursuit of the killer and the group she believes is behind the criminal enterprises plaguing her streets. But Delia isn’t the only person looking for the murderer. Two strangers have arrived in town, claiming to be the family of the deceased and possibly looking for a version of justice that has more to do with back hills vigilantism than the court of law. This complicates everything for Delia, who is unfairly made the target of criticism not only for the criminals running amuck in Boomtown, but also as a woman and lesbian in a small-town police force.
Once again, A.F. Carter brings a host of unforgettable characters to life in this gritty crime novel, the most memorable being the town of Baxter itself.
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The Unknown Stalin
by The Overlook Press, Roy Medvedev, Zhores Medvedev
A compelling new biography of the Soviet leader draws on research into previously unavailable archives, recently revealed evidence, and personal experiences during and after the Stalin regime to refute commonly held myths, inaccuracies, and misconceptions about Stalin's life, political career, death, and influence. 25,000 first printing.
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The Collected Plays Of Edward Albee: Volume 1 1958 - 1965
by Edward Albee, The Overlook Press
These range from the four brilliant one-act plays with which he exploded on the New York theater scene The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, and The American Dream to his early masterpiece, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Also included are two adaptations from notable American novels The Ballad of the Sad Café and Malcolm and Albee's mysteriously fascinating Tiny Alice. This book represents one of the most exciting and bold periods in the career of one of America's most popular and imaginative playwrights.
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Triomf
by The Overlook Press, Marlene Van Niekerk
This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called 'black spot', they await with trepidation their country's first democratic elections. It is a date that coincides fatefully with the fortieth birthday of Lambert, the oversexed misfit son of the house. There is also Treppie, master of misrule and family metaphysician; Pop, the angel of peace teetering on the brink of the grave; and Mol, the materfamilias in her eternal housecoat. Pestered on a daily basis by nosy neighbors, National Party canvassers and Jehovah's Witnesses, defenseless against the big city towering over them like a vengeful dinosaur, they often resort to quoting to each other the only consolation that they know; we still have each other and a roof over our heads. Triomf relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on exactly the white underclass who were most supposed to benefit. It is also a seriously funny investigation of the human endeavor to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances.
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Triomf
by The Overlook Press, Marlene Van Niekerk
This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called 'black spot', they await with trepidation their country's first democratic elections. It is a date that coincides fatefully with the fortieth birthday of Lambert, the oversexed misfit son of the house. There is also Treppie, master of misrule and family metaphysician; Pop, the angel of peace teetering on the brink of the grave; and Mol, the materfamilias in her eternal housecoat. Pestered on a daily basis by nosy neighbors, National Party canvassers and Jehovah's Witnesses, defenseless against the big city towering over them like a vengeful dinosaur, they often resort to quoting to each other the only consolation that they know; we still have each other and a roof over our heads. Triomf relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on exactly the white underclass who were most supposed to benefit. It is also a seriously funny investigation of the human endeavor to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances.
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The Exploration Of Africa
by The Overlook Press, Jean de la Gueriviere
A richly illustrated, large-format volume chronicles the history of African exploration, from the 1483 discovery of the mouth of the Congo river by Portuguese explorers, to the 1871 expedition of journalist Henry Morton Stanley to find explorer David Livingstone, to the exploitation of the continent's resources and people during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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The Jewish-Sicilian Cookbook
by The Overlook Press, Pamela Hensley Vincent
A delectable cookbook celebrating the dual culinary heritage of Italian and Jewish cuisine introduces sixty-four recipes that range from typical Jewish fare to quintessential Italian dishes, accompanied by heartwarming anecdotes and reminscences of family meals.
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