Jonathan Dee, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-50179-8
"Our culture propagates no values outside of the peculiar sort of self-negation implied in the wry smile of irony..." according to Mal Osbourne, the iconoclastic advertising genius who founds Palladio, the eccentric Charlottesville, Va.,...
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Jonathan Dee, Author Pocket Books $19.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-671-89085-8
A successful advertising executive on the verge of retirement and living a tranquil, suburban life discovers the scandalous past of his longtime neighbor. (Aug.)
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Jonathan Dee, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-89919-946-7
This intelligent, astringent first novel by an editor of the Paris Review is a look at the convictions and commitments of three young Manhattanites. Diane Kendall is a radio engineer dissatisfied with her job at an all-news station and uncomfortable
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Jonathan Dee, Author Doubleday Books $22 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-42595-7
Dee ( The Lover of History ) has achieved something startling and utterly original with his subtle new novel. He has created a character with whom countless readers can readily identify and has placed him in a situation they could barely imagine,...
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Jonathan Dee, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-47459-7
In his ambitious but rather didactic third novel, Dee (The Liberty Campaign) explores America's obsession with the cults of victimhood and fame in the aftermath of a race riot in New York City. Paul Soloway is a struggling writer who's been working...
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Jonathan Dee, Author . Random $25 (258p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6867-8
Dee's four prior novels (Palladio
; etc.) cast an intelligent, calculating eye on the culturally topical, which sparked comparisons to the writings of Updike, DeLillo and Franzen. The wedding of Adam and Cynthia Morey, a young and charming...
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Jonathan Dee. Random, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9321-9
“Something’s got to happen,” complains middle-aged suburbanite Ben Armstead, before destroying his marriage and career with a workplace tryst at the start of Dee’s undercooked new novel (after The Privileges, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize)....
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Jonathan Dee. Random House, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9322-6
Small-town America in the aftermath of 9/11 is the setting for Dee’s engrossing new novel. His blue-collar characters, each of them pursuing the American Dream, are vividly developed, and his insights into how they think about the government (ineffec
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Jonathan Dee. Grove, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6000-3
Dee returns 11 years after his Pulitzer finalist The Privileges with an energetic character study of a white man determined to escape from his life. It starts with a burst of electric first-person action, as the unnamed narrator drives on back roads
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