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Buy Me Love
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Described by Publishers Weekly as Cooley's "sharp latest", "Cooley has a sure hand in probing the intersection of artistic ambition and money. This hopeful take is sure to move readers."
In Brooklyn, New York, in 2005, Ellen Portinari buys a lottery ticket on a whim; not long after, she realizes she's won a hundred-million-dollar jackpot. With a month to redeem the ticket, she tells no one but her alcoholic brother--a talented composer whose girlfriend has died in a terrorist attack abroad--about her preposterous good luck.
As the clock ticks, Ellen caroms from incredulity to giddiness to dread as she tries to reckon with the potential consequences of her win. She becomes unexpectedly involved with a man and boy she's met at her local gym. While she grapples with the burden of secret-keeping and the tug of a new intimacy, a Brooklyn street artist named Blair Talpa is contending with her own challenges: a missing brother, an urge to make art that will "derange orbits," and a lack of money.
En route to redeem the lottery ticket, Ellen finds her prospects entwining by chance with Blair's--which allows Ellen to reimagine luck's relation to loss, and the reader to revel in surprise.
Book Details
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publish Date: Jun 1st, 2021
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.90in - 5.90in - 0.80in - 0.80lb
- EAN: 9781597091206
- Categories: • City Life• LGBTQ+ - Transgender• Literary
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About the Author
Martha Cooley is the author of two novels--The Archivist, a national bestseller also published in a dozen foreign markets, and Thirty-Three Swoons--and a memoir, Guesswork. She co-translated Antonio Tabucchi's story collection Time Ages in a Hurry. Her essays, short fiction, and co-translations have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and numerous leading literary journals. She directs the MFA in Creative Writing at Adelphi University, where she is a Professor of English. Prior to Adelphi, she taught for fifteen years in the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Forest Hills (Queens), New York, and Castiglione del Terziere, Italy.
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Independent non-profit literary publisher of exceptional fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The biggest little press in LA. For Kate, see @Kate_Gale.
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Happy pub day to @signoramartha and her new book BUY ME LOVE from @RedHenPress! We can’t wait to host Martha and Sheridan Hay for discussion tomorrow at 1pm! https://t.co/xHjjnyPXGs https://t.co/2FJdoyOgtJ
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Praise for this book
"Buy Me Love is a terrific novel about the eternal confusions of money and our beloved notions of free will--as they play out for one woman with a lottery ticket. It has a superbly believable romance, crooked family histories, and a sneaky double plot. Readers drawn in by its sharpness and originality will find themselves richly rewarded by its striking turns." --Joan Silber, author of Improvement
"Money--its seductive force, the love of it, its weird immaterial nature, the good it can do, and the risk that having it could obliterate who you are--is everyone's suave adversary in Martha Cooley's penetrating novel. She has drawn each of these characters with striking uniqueness. They could all use a bit more money. But it's the possibility of suddenly having a lot more that fills the story with such danger and hope. If you got everything you wanted, would you still want it? And would you still be you?" --Salvatore Scibona, author of The Volunteer
"What a whip-smart, tender, and funny novel dealing with luck, fate, relationships, the whole deal! So enjoyable and wonderfully, wonderfully written! I can see this book appealing to so many types of readers!"--Mark Haber, Bezos Books in Houston, TX
What people are saying
Independent non-profit literary publisher of exceptional fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The biggest little press in LA. For Kate, see @Kate_Gale.
Martha Cooley discusses her new novel BUY ME LOVE with The Brooklyn Rail's Catherine Parnell https://t.co/03PRTuI9cH https://t.co/dD4sequPa2... you can get yourself a copy here! https://t.co/hyzjpxc7qq
A home for readers and writers. The only literary nonprofit solely dedicated to the art of fiction.
Happy pub day to @signoramartha and her new book BUY ME LOVE from @RedHenPress! We can’t wait to host Martha and Sheridan Hay for discussion tomorrow at 1pm! https://t.co/xHjjnyPXGs https://t.co/2FJdoyOgtJ