"The first great novel of the new century that takes the new century as its subject...It's big and ambitious, like novels used to be. It's about us, now. All of us."—Esquire
"Union Atlantic is a bleak, brazen, beauty of a book."
—Elle
"Exceedingly well written…a high-spirited, slyly astute exploration of our great bottoming out.”
—The Boston Globe
"Union Atlantic will possibly be the quintessential American novel of the first decade of the 21st century.”
—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Adam Haslett's page-turner of a debut novel ranges brilliantly from the Strait of Hormuz to the outskirts of Boston to the belly of the financial beast—New York's Federal Reserve. It explains to me, with humor and style and generosity, how we became America in the year 2010. A must read." —Gary Shteyngart
“Adam Haslett has the rarest of talents: the ability to combine a powerful intelligence with storytelling that is both elegant and suspenseful, and to break your heart in the process. Union Atlantic is a masterful portrait of our age.” —Malcolm Gladwell
Set for release on February 9th. Read early reviews on the press page, more about the book on the books page, and see book tour dates and media appearances on the apperances page. Available now for pre-order: IndieBound, Amazon, B&N
Video Introduction to Union Atlantic
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday has put together a brief video introducing readers to the novel.Night Walk, a short story about the President
The author's first new short story in four years is part of New York Magazine's Political Fictions Project. You can read it here.
Esquire presents Union Atlantic
Esquire has selected Adam for its 2009 Best & Brightest issue. Their piece on the book is here.
Their excerpt of the novel (the prologue) can be read here.
And below, the author discusses the book at an Esquire conference.
Also, check out Adam's profile of politician Anthony Woods in the same issue.
City Visit, a short story from The Atlantic
Published back in 2005, this story was later anthologized in the O'Henry Prize Stories and an Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction.
"As they rose onto the bridge, Brendan leaned against the taxi window, gazing into the towers lit against the night sky, just as they are in the beginning of all the Miramax films, or the shots from the blimp when they show evening games at the U.S. Open—only now he could see the red-and-white streams of car lights rushing along the river's edge, beacons on the prows of ships jetting the waterway, a helicopter's taillights cruising down the glittering shore." Read full story...
The Illustrated Notes to My Biographer
In 2003, Thomas Quinn, the designer of this website, created a visual accompaniment to the short story “Notes to My Biographer” from You Are Not A Stranger Here with 15 illustrations in a 37 page book. This book aims to bridge the gap between traditional literature and existing visual storytelling mediums (such as graphic novels).
