The Great Perhaps

A Novel

27 April 2010

Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth.

Joe Meno (Author)

Description

“This ambitious, adventurous writer . . . recalls Anton Chekhov with his amused appreciation of human foibles.”—Wendy Smith, Chicago Tribune

The sky is falling for the Caspers, a family of cowards. When the parents decide to separate, this family is forced to appreciate the cloudiness of this modern age.

Reviews

"The wisest, most humane and transcendent novel on the contemporary family since The Corrections. . . . A marvelous book." — Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting

"Meno masterfully, and meaningfully, conflates the fantastic with the everyday. . . . Tender, funny, spooky, and gripping." — Donna Seaman, Booklist

"A darkly funny, lyrical, and shrewdly observant chronicle of a family on the verge of a nervous breakdown." — Tom Perrotta, author of The Abstinence Teacher

"Meno is thinking hard about why the world is the way it is and about where hope for change might reasonably lie." — Jonathan Dee, New York Times Book Review

Awards

Winner — Great Lakes Book Award, 2009

Paperback

9780393304565

140 x 208 mm • 430 pages

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