Arcade Publishing - Spring 2014 Catalog - Thomas Allen & Son Ltd.

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ARCADE
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Arthur Hoyle
THE UNKNOWN HENRY MILLER
A Seeker in Big Sur
T
he first substantial biography of Henry Miller
in twenty years reveals the seeker of spiritual
transformation behind the familiar literary
“renegade.”
Henry Miller was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-
century literature. Better known in Europe than in his native
America for most of his career, he achieved international success
and celebrity during the 1960s when his banned “Paris” books—
beginning with Tropic of Cancer—were published here and
judged by the Supreme Court not to be obscene. The Unknown
Henry Miller recounts Miller’s career from its beginnings in Paris
in the 1930s but focuses on his years living in Big Sur, California,
during which he wrote many of his most important books, in-
cluding The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy; married and divorced twice;
raised two children; painted watercolors; and tried to live out an
aesthetic and personal credo of self-realization.
Written with the cooperation of the Henry Miller, Anais Nin,
and other estates, The Unknown Henry Miller quotes extensively
from Miller’s correspondence to offer the reader direct experience
of the author and man. It also draws on material not available to
previous biographers, including interviews with Lepska Warren,
Miller’s third wife, and revelations from unpublished portions of
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Anais Nin’s diaries. Behind the “bad boy” image, Arthur Hoyle
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finds a man whose challenge of literary sexual taboos was part of
and new media
a broader assault on the dehumanization of man and commer-
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cialization during the postwar years, and he makes the case for
restoring this groundbreaking writer to his rightful place in the
American literary canon.
Arthur hoyle is an educator, writer, independent filmmaker,
and communications professional. His documentary films have
won awards and aired on PBS, and he has received a National
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Endowment for the Humanities grant. He lives in Pacific Pali-
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“The best book ever written about my father.” —Tony Miller, on
Biography
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Esther Figueroa
LIMBO
A Novel
A
sensuous mystery set in exotic and danger-
ous Jamaica.
Flora Smith, Jamaican scientist and head of tiny NGO Environ-
ment Now, dedicates her life to getting Jamaicans to care about
the natural environment. At the opening of Limbo, Flora is con-
fronted by the nagging reality of not having enough money to
keep her organization afloat. When sand is stolen from a resort
development owned by a wealthy donor, she becomes embroiled
in corrupt politics, dirty money, and a murder. In Jamaica, the
land of “No problem, mon,” everything is known but off the re-
cord. Can Flora get anyone to be held accountable? Can she find
solutions for any of Jamaica’s problems?
Limbo is a humorous, sensuous romp, detailing one woman’s
struggle to find ways to effectively achieve change while mak-
ing peace with herself and her island, which she loves more than
she has loved anyone. As we keep pace with the indefatigable,
irrepressible Flora, we experience the not-so-tidy challenges of
balancing a valiant public persona with a chaotic personal life.
Through her attempts at transforming the world and herself, we
encounter deep friendship, new love, and the complexities of con-
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beauty, routine brutality, and poorly hidden secrets.
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and new media
• Co-op available esther FigueroA, PhD, is a Jamaican independent film-
maker, writer, and linguist. She has twenty-five years of experi-
ence in media production including documentaries, educational
videos, television programming, music videos, multimedia, web
content, and feature film. An activist filmmaker, she focuses on
local knowledge, indigenous cultures, social injustice, commu-
nity empowerment, and the environment. Her work gives voice
to those outside of mainstream media, and aims to counter the
dominant values, information, and worldviews portrayed in com-
mercial media. She lives in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Larry Edwards
THE TOTALLY, ABSOLUTELY UNOFFICIAL
DOWNTON ABBEY COOKBOOK
80 Recipes from Edwardian England
A
celebration of the Edwardian table with
eighty tantalizing and easy-to-make recipes.
The PBS Masterpiece series Downton Abbey has taken the world
by storm. With eighty delicious recipes, The Totally, Absolutely
Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook celebrates the phenomenal
success of the series and the culinary wonders enjoyed by the aris-
tocracy in Edwardian England. Starting with an elegant array of
savory tea sandwiches and sweets from traditional high tea, this
book guides you through dinner at the Edwardian table with its:
• Infinite variety of breads—Dinner Biscuits, Estate Oat
Bread, Downton Dinner Rolls, and many more
• Soups—Majestic Potato Soup, Royal Cheddar Cheese
Soup, and Stilton Chowder
• Side Dishes—Asparagus in Cider Sauce, Baked Creamed
Turnips, Shredded Spiced Brussels Sprouts, and Savory
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Caraway Cabbage
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• Entrées—Edwardian Leg of Lamb, Lobster Pudding,
French Country Cooking
Oyster Roll, Leek Pie, Downton Pheasant Casserole, and
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Pork Loaf with Apples
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• Dessert at the Abbey—Lemon Crème Soufflé,
Raspberries in Sherry Sabayon Sauce, Queen Victoria
Rice Pudding, and Downton Abbey Honey Cake
With recipes adapted for the modern cook by Chef Larry Ed-
wards, these dishes are as inspiring as they are easy to make.
lArry edwArds, classically trained in French haute cuisine
at the Cordon Bleu and the École Escoffier, is the food editor
for the San Francisco Independent. He writes a syndicated Inter-
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the Wall Street Journal food section and USAToday. He lives and
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80 b/w illustrations works in San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, and Reno.
Cooking
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Andreï Makine
Translated by Geoffrey Strachan
A HERO’S DAUGHTER
A Novel
A
novel of the devastating effects of Stalin’s
brutal reign of terror, by the author of Dreams
of My Russian Summers.
Set in the Soviet Union from World War II until the early 1990s,
A Hero’s Daughter portrays the rise and decline of the Soviet
Union through the story of Ivan Dimitrovich Davidov and his
family. For his extraordinary bravery and courage beyond the call
of duty at the Battle of Stalingrad, Ivan is awarded his country’s
highest military honor: Hero of the Soviet Union. Married after
the war to Tatyana, the medical orderly who found him barely
breathing amid a pile of corpses after another apocalyptic battle
late in the war, they have a daughter, Olya, who grows up in the
glow of her father’s reputation.
In 1980, the beautiful Olya, now seventeen, assigned as an in-
terpreter during the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, commits an
indiscretion with a French athlete—throwing her straight into
the waiting arms of the KGB. As the years roll by, Olya, more
and more deeply implicated in espionage, despairs at her fate
as a “political prostitute,” while her father, equally used by the
State, becomes increasingly disillusioned and unruly, until he is
arrested for drunken and disorderly conduct. Finally the lives of
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ing conclusion.
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978-1-61145-054-5 France in 1987. His novel Dreams of My Russian Summers won the
two top French literary awards, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix
Médicis, in 1995, and he became a bestselling author throughout
Europe. Arcade has published ten of his novels.
“A remarkable novel . . . enormously powerful.” —Daily Mail
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“It carries the unmistakable stamp of historical and human truth.
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. . . Subtle and powerful.” —Sunday Telegraph
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He may really be his generation’s Chekhov and its Proust.”
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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Jonathan Richards and Tad Richards
NICK & JAKE
An Epistolary Novel
I
n the comic tradition of Catch-22, the protag-
onists of Hemingway and Fitzgerald return.
America in 1953 seems hell-bent on squandering the flood tide of
international goodwill earned in WWII. Senator Joe McCarthy
is on a red-hunting rampage in Washington, and the fledgling
CIA under Allen Dulles is starting to dabble in nation-building.
Into this moment of history wander Nick Carraway and Jake
Barnes, refugees from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Heming-
way’s The Sun Also Rises. They begin a correspondence that leads
to a close friendship, and widens to include a bizarre cast of char-
acters. From the classic fiction of the period come Larry Darrell
(The Razor’s Edge), Alden Pyle (The Quiet American), Lady Brett
Ashley and Robert Cohn (The Sun Also Rises), and from real life,
Roy Cohn (Robert’s nephew) and his pal Davey Schine, Roy’s
boss Joe McCarthy, French intellectuals Sartre and de Beauvoir,
Iranian premier Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, and sex-change
pioneer Christine Jorgensen. Jake discovers a CIA plot to cause
a coup in France, and Nick and Jake must do their best to save
their country from itself while affairs of the heart change both of
their lives. Nick & Jake finds the uproarious comic potential in a
chilling period of American history that has alarming echoes in
our own.
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JonAthAn richArds is an author, journalist, actor, and car-
toonist. His movie reviews appear weekly in the Santa Fe New
Mexican and online. He is a member of the Online Film Critics
Society. His political cartoons are seen regularly in the Huffing-
ton Post. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
tAd richArds is the author of seventeen novels and various
books of nonfiction and poetry. He has written plays, screenplays,
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and songs. He lives at Opus 40, the sculpture park in Saugerties,
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New York.
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Bertrand David and Jean-Jacques Lefrère
Translated by Molly Grogan
THE OLDEST ENIGMA OF HUMANITY
The Key to the Mystery of the Paleolithic Cave Paintings
F
or the first time in history, the oldest enigma
of prehistory has been pierced.
Thirty thousand years ago our prehistoric ancestors painted per-
fect images of animals on walls of tortuous caves, most often
without any light. How was this possible? What meaning and
messages did the cavemen want these paintings to convey? In
addition, how did these perfect drawings come about at a time
when man’s sole purpose was surviving? And why, some ten thou-
sand years later, did startlingly similar animal paintings appear
once again, on dark cave walls?
Scholars and archaeologists have for centuries pored over these
works of art, speculating and hoping to come away with the key
to the mystery. No one until now has ever come close to elucidat-
ing either their origin or their meaning.
In their stunning book and for the first time, David and Lefrère,
after working together for years, give us a new understanding of
an art lost in time, revealing what had until recently remained
unexplainable—the oldest enigma in humanity has been solved.
BertrAnd dAvid is a graduate of the School of Fine Arts in
Rennes, and is a painter and designer.
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JeAn-JAcques leFrère is a professor of medicine, as well as
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an essayist and historian.
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“A revolutionary theory that will trigger controversy; well worth
reading.” —France Magazine
“Very entertaining; this new hypothesis will provoke a great deal
of teeth grinding.” —Agence France-Presse
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Tom Phelan
THE CANAL BRIDGE
A Novel of Ireland, Love, and the First World War
A
lyrical and searing saga of love and war,
hailed as “Another First World War master-
piece . . . Ambitious, accomplished, and deeply
moving” (Irish Independent).
In 1913, before there is a rumor of war in Europe, Matthias Wrenn
and Con Hatchel, lifelong friends from Ballyrannel in the Irish
midlands, decide to see the world at the expense of the king of
England and join the British army. A year later, while en route to
India, their troop ship is recalled and they soon find themselves
in the slaughterhouse that was World War I. As stretcher bearers,
the two men witness all too closely the horrors of the battlefield
and the unconscionable waste of human life on fields made liquid
by “the blood and guts of boy soldiers” at the Somme, Ypres, and
Passchendaele. Meanwhile, back home in Ireland, Con’s sister
and Matthias’s lover, Kitty Hatchel, yearns for their safe return
and reminds them of their carefree childhood on the banks of the
local canal, as well as their hopes for the future.
Brilliantly and movingly narrated by a chorus of voices from the
community—Matt, Con, Kitty, and others—The Canal Bridge
tells the story of how the young men take Ballyrannel to war with
them, and how the war comes back home when hostilities end
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for the political landscape has been transformed by the Rising
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and new media against the British in 1916. It is now a land riven with sectarian
tensions and bloodshed from which there is no escape.
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community
• Co-op available toM PhelAn was born and raised on a farm in County Laois,
Ireland. His first novel was published to critical acclaim when he
was fifty, prompting one reviewer to ask, “Where has Mr. Phelan
been?” His novels include In the Season of the Daisies, Iscariot,
Derrycloney, and Nailer. He now lives in New York.
“Powerful and deeply affecting.” —Books Ireland
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dealing with the First World War.” —Irish Emigrant
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Ismail Kadare
Translated by Barbara Bray
THE PALACE OF DREAMS
A Novel
“S
pare, suspenseful, and quietly terrifying
. . . A remarkable literary work of international
stature.” —Wall Street Journal
The mysterious Palace of Dreams stands at the heart of a vast
empire. Inside, workers sift, sort, and interpret the dreams of the
empire’s citizens. They search out Master-Dreams that will pro-
vide clues to the destiny of the empire and its Sultan.
Mark-Alem, scion of a noble family that has provided viziers to
the Sultan from time immemorial, and whose power the Sultan
distrusts, is recruited into the Palace of Dreams at the humblest
level. He immediately feels the terrible pressure that drives his co-
workers, the dread of overlooking a crucial dream whose capture
and interpretation might avert political disaster.
But he rapidly rises through the hierarchy—only barely finding
his bearings in one section of the Palace’s labyrinthine passages
that represent the entire empire’s consciousness laid bare before
he is promoted to another. And the pressure only increases as
he becomes familiar with the fates of subversive dreamers and
personally responsible for the sort of dreams that might ruin an
entire family. A family like his own.
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isMAil kAdAre is the winner of the inaugural Man Booker
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International Prize and is acclaimed worldwide as one of the most
The Successor important writers of our time. Translations of his novels have
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between Paris, France, and Tirana, Albania.
“Kadare’s most daring novel, one of the most complete visions
of totalitarianism ever committed to paper.” —Jean-Christophe
Castelli, Vanity Fair
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“As an allegory of power, The Palace of Dreams is flawless.
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