The Delivery Room
A Novel
SYLVIA BROWNRIGG

In 1998, Serbian therapist Mira Braverman listens to her troubled patients in the safe haven of her London office. As the novel unfolds and she faces her own struggles, Mira discovers that she is not as distant from her patients’ pain as she might once have been. The Delivery Room is a compelling examination of the incomplete understandings between therapist and patient, and a meditation on the meaning of wars fought from a distance.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-424-7 | Trade Paper | $14.95

Morality Tale
A Novel
SYLVIA BROWNRIGG

When the elusive but exciting Richard (an envelope salesman with a nice layperson’s line in Zen philosophies) meets the novel’s married narrator, he offers her a friendly escape from her own daunting domestic life. Told with honesty and wit, Morality Tale explores matrimony and the crucial truth that change is often the key to staying together.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-481-0 | Trade Paper | $14.95

My Life at First Try
A Novel
MARK BUDMAN

In this semi-autobiographical debut novel, Mark Budman chronicles the life of Alex, a boy born in Siberia in 1950. Short chapters—sometimes hilarious, sometimes sobering—chronicle Alex’s life year by year as he matures, starts a family, gets a chance to leave the Soviet Union, and then goes on to discover the rhythms, disappointments, and small pleasures of suburban life in upstate New York.

“This blazingly fast and funny ‘semi-autobiographical’ novel follows a Russian man’s comically earnest pursuit of the American dream." —Publishers Weekly

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-400-1 | Cloth | $24.00

Advanced Elvis Course
CACONRAD

Part psychedelic road-trip, part religious devotional, Advanced Elvis Course is an account of Conrad’s pilgrimage to Memphis due to his unabated love of the King. Blurring the distinction between real and fictional experience, Conrad creates a transcendental portrait of the legendary Elvis through a blend of graffiti, talk-show interviews, and poetry, and forms a prismatic, vibrant portrait of fandom.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-243-8 | Trade Paper | $12.95

The Shooting Party
A Novel
Isabel Colgate

It is the autumn of 1913, and Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest shoot of the season. An army of servants and gamekeepers has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual of the house and hunt. The gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowship and good-humored sporting rivalry. The fashionable ladies are exchanging the latest gossip. Everything about this splendid weekend would seem a perfect affirmation of the privileges and certainties of Edwardian country life. And yet, as Isabel Colegate so elegantly dramatizes, it is not. The social and moral code of this set is under siege from within and without. Competition beyond the bounds of sportsmanship, revulsion at the slaughter of animals, anger at the inequities of class—these and other forces are about to rise up and challenge the social peace, a peace that can hold only a brief while longer.

“The Shooting Party is a lovely piece of writing, in which subtlety, irony, and close observation abound.” —Larry McMurtry

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-593-0 | Trade Paper | $14.95

Lost in Uttar Pradesh
New and Selected Stories
EVAN S. CONNELL

A remarkable collection of fiction from one of American’s most distinguished writers.

“[A] willfully diverse collection, intended to give a taste of the author’s scope and range . . . enigmatic in both content and conception, it’s a vivid metaphor for Connell’s career.”  —Los Angeles Times

“Connell is among the country’s foremost writers.” —Peter Matthiesen

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-483-4 | Trade Paper | $16.95

The Lariat and Other Writings
JAIME de ANGULO
EDITED BY DAVID MILLER

Hailed by Ezra Pound as “the American Ovid,” Jaime de Angulo was regarded as one of the most colorful and captivating writers of the 20th century. The Lariat and Other Writings collects several of de Angulo’s most important stories, many of which were unavailable until now.

“One of the most outstanding writers that I have ever encountered.” —William Carlos Williams

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-468-1 | Cloth | $25.00

The Suitcase
A Novel
Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov’s subtle, dark-edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from the U.S.S.R. These seemingly undistinguished possessions, stuffed into a worn-out suitcase, take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them, occasioning a brilliant series of interconnected tales.

Imbued with a comic nostalgia overlaid with Dovlatov’s characteristically dry wit, The Suitcase is an intensely human, delightfully ironic novel from “the finest Soviet satirist to appear in English since Vladimir Voinovich” (The Washington Post).

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-733-0 | Trade Paper | $14.95

Breakfast With Scot
A Novel
MICHAEL DOWNING

“Witty, poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, deftly insightful and full of people you wish you knew, plus a few you’re glad you don’t. Breakfast with Scot is a turn-of-the-millennium look at parenthood, families, relationships and who gets to wear eyeliner.” —Judith Long, Newsday

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-186-8 | Trade Paper | $13.95