With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives. Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings - the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec - struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. When Margaret's fiancée, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most?
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"Another touching, funny story by this author, who has a charming way of relating characters in various other books, yet the order in which the books are read does not take away from the enjoyment of each one in the series. And with two adorable little orphaned girls in need of a family along for the ride, they're heading out across the heartland chasing their own American Dream - on a wild journey of love, adventure, and glorious rebirth.įirst Lady: A star-spangled, richly emotional story of self-discovery, celebrity, love, and family. and she's just found it.Īn entire nation is searching for her, but the First Lady is in the last place anybody would think to look: in the company of a man, an infuriatingly secretive and quietly seductive stranger whose charm, good looks, and sensuous appeal are awakening the forgotten woman within the dignitary. Not for long, however, because she's made up her mind to escape - if only for a few days - so she can live the life of an ordinary person. How does the most famous woman in the world hide in plain sight? The beautiful young widow of the President of the United States thought she was free of the White House, but circumstances have forced her back into the role of First Lady. During his time in London, Bostrom also did some turns on London’s stand-up comedy circuit. There have been more than 100 translations and reprints of his works. His writings have been translated into 24 languages. He has been listed on Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers list twice and he was included on Prospect magazine's World Thinkers list, the youngest person in the top 15 from all fields and the highest-ranked analytic philosopher. Gannon Award (one person selected annually worldwide from the fields of philosophy, mathematics, the arts and other humanities, and the natural sciences). In 2000, he was awarded a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics. He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (Routledge, 2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (ed., OUP, 2008), Human Enhancement (ed., OUP, 2009), and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (OUP, 2014), a New York Times bestseller.īostrom holds bachelor degrees in artificial intelligence, philosophy, mathematics and logic followed by master’s degrees in philosophy, physics and computational neuroscience. He also directs the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Research Center. Nick Bostrom is Professor at Oxford University, where he is the founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute. |