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List of all possible desires / Dylan Landis.
Van Pelt - New Book Display PS3612.A5482 L57 2026
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Landis, Dylan, 1956- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Family secrets--Fiction.
- Family secrets.
- Betrayal--Fiction.
- Betrayal.
- Women artists--Fiction.
- Women artists.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Paris (France)--Fiction.
- Paris (France).
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Coming-of-age fiction.
- Short stories.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 286 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- List of all possible desires : a novel in stories
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Soho Press, Inc, [2026]
- Summary:
- A dazzling novel in stories from a master of the form that follows the Royal family across generations of obsession, betrayal, and reinvention. In postwar Paris, a boy is seduced by his mysterious nanny into a world of adult secrets. In 1950s New York, a young woman struggles to protect her stroke-stricken charge as bruises multiply on the woman's body. In the 1970s, a fragile cousin wanders into the Royals' jazz-soaked townhouse, where music, sex, and ruin intertwine. And at the heart of these stories is Rainey Royal herself, coming of age in Greenwich Village, inventing herself as an artist through the tumult of the '70s and '80s. By turns shocking, erotic, and deeply humane, List of All Possible Desires is a haunting portrait of family and history-written with Landis's trademark intensity and precision. This publication is joined by expanded reissues of the other two books in the Rainey Royal Cycle, the novel in stories Normal People Don't Live Like This and the novel Rainey Royal. Each book stands on its own, but together they echo and amplify one another, creating one of the richest and most intense worlds in contemporary American fiction.
- Contents:
- La Nounou
- List of all possible desires
- Embouchure
- The wise and the honest
- Fear knot
- String tension
- Mr. Apology
- Life is like that
- The water or the fish
- Bernard Landry, save me
- How to steal a family
- Tattoo
- Heart jammed open.
- ISBN:
- 9781641297325
- 1641297328
- OCLC:
- 1564619868
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