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"On any list of writers that make me laugh, Mary Pauline Lowry is near the top. Last Night Was Killer, but it's also killer fun." -- Steven Rowley, New York Times bestselling author of The Guncle A suspenseful, bighearted, and laugh-out-loud story of a single mom trying to do it all—including...

“Absorbing...Eastman is a riveting...presence who demands to be loved and remembered.” —The Boston Globe An ambitious new novel set in the literary world of 1970s New York, following a washed-up writer in an errant quest to pick up the pieces of his life. One of Esquire's Best books of...

This skillfully wrought examination of character and relationships opens with macabre impact. A bland newspaper report describes the discovery of two dead women - one of them a skeleton - in a North London house. The author teases the reader toward the known, grisly ending by cutting back and forth in time and gradually constructing the complex pattern of emotions and events that define even the most mundane-seeming lives.

Mit Humor ist alles leichter - selbst dann, wenn man in einem Restaurant landet, in dem auch das Jüngste Gericht serviert wird. Oder wenn man den schrecklichsten Liebeskummer aller Zeiten hat. Oder man ein klitzekleines bisschen daran schuld sein könnte, dass die Erde von galaktischen Angreifern in die Luft gesprengt wird. Klingt verrückt? Ist es auch! Und das Einhorn, das beim Ende der Welt eine durchaus tragende Rolle spielt, haben wir bisher noch nicht einmal erwähnt.