Jonathan Baumbach

Jonathan Baumbach is the author of fourteen books of fiction, including You, or The Invention of Memory; On The Way To My Father's Funeral: New and Selected Stories; B, A Novel; D-Tours; Separate Hours; Chez Charlotte and Emily; The Life and Times of Major Fiction; Reruns; Babble; and A Man to Conjure With. He has also published over ninety stories published in such places as Esquire, Open City, and Boulevard.

Baumbach, co-founder of The Fiction Collective in 1973, the first fiction writers cooperative in America, has seen his work widely praised. His short stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, The PEN / O.Henry Prize, and The Best of TriQuarterly. The New York Times Book Review referred to him in 2004 as "an underappreciated writer." He employs a masterfully dispassionate, fiercely intelligent narrative voice whose seeming objectivity is always a faltering front for secret passion and despair."



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You, or the Invention of Memory

Jonathan Baumbach

Release Date: November 20, 2012
ISBN: 978-1936873715

Price: $15.95

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With each new novel, Jonathan Baumbach nudges the parameters of the novel—this time his narrator remembers, or invents, or imagines, the life of a not easily defined woman known only as You. It's another great look at the idea of love and the many various holds it can take.


PRAISE

"No one is smarter or funnier about the absurdities and agonies of modern love. reading You is an affair to relish and remember." —Hilma Wolitzer

"You is a wise, witty meditation on the mysteries of love and because the brilliant Jonathan Baumbach is the author, it is also a house of mirrors in which a single relationship is fractured into infinite possibilities and the corridors lead deep into a labyrinth of memory and desire. At every point, You offers us a new way to look at ourselves, startling us with uncanny reflections." —Joanna Scott

"Jonathan Baumbach creates a fresh sense of storytelling." —The Broad Set

"If you are an admirer of the bold and Unexpected, You, like any gesture of love, deserves your regard." —Steven Moore, Los Angeles Times Book Review