Therapist Dr. Pahnee, hired by young Miller Le Ray's mother, finds his own reality unraveling as he tries to deal with a patient dedicated to telling the truth who is unable to distinguish between fac
Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, has come to the end of a very long and unusual journey, and for the second time in his life he has the time to think about all the things that
Winner of the 2000 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short FictionWelcome to the strange, wonderful world of Brock Clarke. Here you will meet florists, dental hygienists, high school teachers, and peddlers of po
The absurdity and distortion of reality that made Brock Clarke’s previous two novels so outrageously funny and yet so moving are on full display in his newest offering, The Happiest People in the Worl
“The funniest and smartest novel I have read in years . . . Yes! I thought as I read these pages. That’s how you write a good book.” —Hannah Tinti, author The Good Thief The absurdity and distortion o
A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Di
When nine-year-old Miller believes he has found his father lying comatose in a local hospital, he searches for the one person he thinks can save his dad, the author of his father's favorite book.
“Brock Clarke’s hilarious new novel starts out in rural Denmark, then takes us someplace really foreign and utterly weird: upstate New York. The parallel universe Clarke creates there is both our worl
From an acclaimed and original writer comes a new collection of stories bursting with absurdist plot twists and laced with trenchant wit. Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers&r
“A story in which anything and everything can happen, and mostly does. This is a book of many trips―across oceans, back to the past, and, most profoundly, into the infinite deep space of the human hea
