Out now from Hogarth (USA), 4th Estate (UK), Black Coffee (Italy), Kein und Aber (Germany), Editions Rue de L’Echiquier (France)
Signed copies are available at Greenlight Books, or order from an indie bookstore like BookPeople, RiffRaff, Skylight, Booksmith SF or Boulder Bookstore!
Publicity (US): Carrie Neill, cneill @ penguinrandomhouse.com
Publicity (UK): Patrick Hargadon, patrick . hargadon @ harpercollins.co.uk
ABOUT SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and connectedness in the age of environmental collapse and ecological awakening–a darkly unsettling near-future novel for readers of Don DeLillo and Ottessa Moshfegh
East Coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, preventing starlet Cassidy Carter’s disruptive behavior from derailing said production, and turning this last-ditch effort at career resuscitation into the sort of success that will dazzle his wife and daughter back home. But California is not as he imagined: Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are omnipresent, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Partnering with Cassidy–after having been her reluctant chauffeur for weeks–the two of them investigate the sun-scorched city’s darker crevices, where they discover that catastrophe resembles order until the last possible second.
Read an excerpt in The Baffler!
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