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Shortlisted for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, a Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick. "Exceptional, moving, and not to be missed."—Alice Hoffman. "Gentle and fierce, heartbreaking without sacrificing its sense of humor... I have never read anything like it."—Robert Jones, Jr. A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meager existence in New York City's Chinatown.

Winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play – Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama – Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play – Winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. "The best play of the year" – The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, The Hollywood Reporter, Time Out New York, NPR. "Drawn in subtle but indelible strokes, Mr.

C'était l'été où Coltrane est mort, l'été de l'amour et des émeutes, l'été où une rencontre fortuite à Brooklyn a guidé deux jeunes gens sur la voie de l'art, de la ténacité et de l'apprentissage. Patti Smith deviendrait poète et performeuse, et Robert Mapplethorpe, au style très provocateur, se dirigerait vers la photographie.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe. —"It's brash, audacious and... intoxicatingly visionary." —Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune.

A New York Times Bestseller. "This may be Towles' best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef's main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart." – Los Angeles Times. "The book spans the 20th century, bringing characters into tableaus of deceit and desire. Beneath his coifed prose Towles is a master of the shiv, the bait and switch; we see the flash of light before the shock wave strikes, often in the final sentence...Table for Two delivers the kick of a martini served in the Polo Lounge." – The New York Times Book Review.