{"title":"Dylan Landis","description":"Dylan Landis is the author of three works of fiction in the Rainey Royal Cycle set in 1970s Greenwich Village: the forthcoming List of All Possible Desires; Rainey Royal; and Normal People Don't Live Like This. Her work has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and other anthologies. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction and lives in Los Angeles.","products":[{"product_id":"normal-people-dont-live-like-this-a-novel-in-stories-deluxe-edition-paperback","title":"Normal People Don't Live Like This: A Novel in Stories (Deluxe Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wonderful! Leah and Helen are authentic, vulnerable characters, whose intimate truths are exposed at perfect, unexpected moments.\"―Elizabeth Strout \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA jolting, sensual novel in stories that traces the crises, cruelties and passions of girls and mothers in the chaos of 1970s Greenwich Village, now in a deluxe edition featuring a reader's guide and a new, previously unpublished story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1970s Greenwich Village: Leah Levinson can't help worshipping the girls who torment her at school. Her perilous, magnetic friendships with Rainey Royal and Angeline Yost--girls she fears yet cannot resist--leave her desperate to shift the balance of power and affection. Meanwhile, Leah's emotionally estranged mother, Helen, secretly rents a room uptown where she lives out a second life. And Rainey--whose chaotic upbringing fills her with artistic inspiration and dread--decides to risk everything on an act of vengeance in a legendary artists' building. As we move between points of view, the New York of another era blazes with danger, beauty, and possibility. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 2009 and now expanded with a new story, \u003ci\u003eNormal People Don't Live Like This\u003c\/i\u003e is a luminous depiction of the crises, cruelties, and passions of girls and mothers, and the first book in the Rainey Royal Cycle. It is joined by a new novel in stories\u003ci\u003e, List of All Possible Desires\u003c\/i\u003e, and a deluxe edition of the 2014 novel \u003ci\u003eRainey Royal\u003c\/i\u003e. Each book stands on its own, yet together they echo and amplify one another, creating one of the richest and most intense worlds in contemporary American fiction.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101207761119,"sku":"9781641298001","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/D7gE-7ofZO9781641298001.webp?v=1781068471"},{"product_id":"rainey-royal-deluxe-edition-paperback","title":"Rainey Royal (Deluxe Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed novel of girlhood, friendship, and sexuality set in the bohemian Greenwich Village of 1970, with a new introduction by Jessica Anya Blau\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFourteen-year-old Rainey Royal--fierce, gifted, and dangerously magnetic--lives in a once-elegant, now-crumbling townhouse with her cultish jazz-pianist father and the women who orbit him. Her mother is gone. Her father's best friend hovers too close. And Rainey, left largely to her own devices, must learn to navigate desire, betrayal, and vulnerability in a city that shimmers with promise and threat. As she gathers friends and misfits into her orbit, Rainey tests the limits of who she can become--sometimes a rebel, sometimes a criminal, always a girl determined to recreate herself as both an artist and a young woman in a fractured world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach book in the Rainey Royal cycle can be read on its own, but together they echo and amplify one another, creating a world of almost unbearable richness and intensity.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101911421151,"sku":"9781641298223","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/L3vW8rBJNQ9781641298223.webp?v=1781075872"},{"product_id":"list-of-all-possible-desires-a-novel-in-stories-hardcover","title":"List of All Possible Desires: A Novel in Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzling novel in stories following Rainey Royal--a young artist coming of age through the tumult of New York City in the '70s and '80s--and her family across generations of obsession, betrayal, and reinvention, written with the trademark beauty and precision of Dylan Landis. For fans of Mary Gaitskill and Lauren Groff.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn postwar Paris, over the course of one fateful day, a boy's crush on his nanny ignites into a destructive passion that burns into his memory and reveals to him the disquieting world of adult secrets. In 1950s New York City, a naïve caretaker struggles to protect her charge, a married woman paralyzed by her recent stroke, as new bruises appear each day on her body. In the 1970s, a fragile cousin wanders into the Royal family's chaotic jazz-filled 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy turns shocking, erotic, and deeply humane, \u003ci\u003eList of All Possible Desires\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting portrait of family and history. 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