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Books by Nan McCarthy
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CHAT $6.00 U.S./$8.50 Canada £3.99 U.K./$9.95 Australia/$12.95 N.Z. |
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It all began with a simple Chat. This utterly original novel invites you to "eavesdrop" on the private e-mails of two people who have just met online: Bev, a tough-minded book editor who's been logging on for years, and Max, a restless advertising copywriter who boldly strikes up a conversation with her. With each e-mail exchange, two people who are at first faceless come vibrantly alive through their sometimes serious, sometimes funny, and always believable messages to each other. As Bev becomes less inhibited, Max becomes more fascinated, and their relationship grows more intense – until an unforeseen event changes the rules of the game forever. Intimate and compelling, Chat gives a modern twist to the thrill of romantic adventure. Click here to find out more about Chat, including a sample chapter, what people are saying about the book, and order information. This book is also available in the following foreign editions from their respective publishers: Germany (Goldmann) ISBN 3-442-44551-5
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CONNECT
$6.00 US/$8.50 Canada £3.99 UK/$9.95 Australia/$12.95 N.Z. |
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All it takes is the desire to Connect. In the second novel of her acclaimed cybertrilogy, Nan McCarthy resumes the compelling story of Bev and Max, the two intriguing strangers who met online in Chat. As you "eavesdrop" on their private e-mail correspondence, their relationship continues to unfold entirely through electronic messages. With their lives now unexpectedly and irrevocably intertwined, Bev and Max must contemplate the consequences of their deepening intimacy. Revealing themselves in what they choose to say and leave unsaid, Bev and Max's romantic adventure takes them into unexplored territory.... With a gifted ear for the ups and downs of romance in the technological age, Nan McCarthy has created a story that is as seductive as it is surprising. Click here to find out more about Connect, including a sample chapter, what people are saying about the book, and order information. This book is also available in the following foreign editions from their respective publishers: Germany (Goldmann) ISBN 3-442-44552-3
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CRASH
$6.00 US/$8.50 Canada £3.99 UK/$9.95 Australia/$12.95 N.Z. |
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Loss of control can lead to a Crash. The wild ride chronicled in Chat and Connect, the first two novels in Nan McCarthy's heralded cybertrilogy, comes to a jolting conclusion in Crash. You are invited once again to "eavesdrop" on the private e-mail conversations of Bev and Max, two strangers who met online, and whose relationship has grown more intense, and complex, than they ever imagined. Laced with humor and provocative confessions, their impassioned exchanges seem to be leading them to the brink of the inevitable... With a true storyteller's flourish, Nan McCarthy brings to a close a romantic adventure that is at once familiar, unique, and entirely unforgettable. Click here to find out more about Crash, including a sample chapter, what people are saying about the book, and order information. This book is also available in the following foreign editions from their respective publishers: Germany (Goldmann) ISBN 3-442-44553-1
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LIVE 'TIL I DIE: a memoir of my father's life
$14.95 US/$19.95 Canada
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Not your typical alcoholic memoir about how the guy (or girl) finds sobriety, this is the story of a man who never comes out the other end of his addiction—who, instead of overcoming his alcoholism and living to tell about it, dies at age 39 of acute alcoholic cirrhosis, leaving behind a wife, two young daughters, and a loyal group of friends determined to keep his memory alive. Ben Johnson had everything going for him. He was bright, good-looking, funny, and charismatic, reaching a level of professional success unheard of for a man his age. Well-loved by his family and the friends he grew up with on Chicago’s South Side, he was a wild and colorful personality who lived hard and played hard—the kind of man people wanted to be with because life was always a party when Ben Johnson was around. Until, by his early 30s, while most of his friends were settling into domestic life to focus on raising their families, Ben Johnson’s life was spiraling from three-martini lunches to screwdrivers for breakfast, days-long binges of drinking and gambling, barroom brawls, DUIs, arrests, and finally, months-long hospital stays in the last years of his life. Ben was known to say, “If I live to be 40, I’ll live to be 100.” He died six months before his 40th birthday. His daughters were 13 and 9 years old. Though they could not stop him from drinking, Ben Johnson’s friends created a legacy for his daughters by remaining a part of their lives and sharing stories of their father’s life from his rambunctious boyhood in Chicago’s Catholic schools in the 1940s and ‘50s to his early success in the 1960s as an up-and-coming executive managing trade shows at the city’s famed Amphitheatre and McCormick Place. Inspired by her father’s friends and their loyalty and admiration for her father, Ben’s youngest daughter set out to write a memoir of the life of the father she hardly knew—not a bitter recounting of her own memories of the tumult, sickness, and heartbreak of the final years of his life, but a collection of stories at once funny and heartbreaking, poignant and powerful, as told through the eyes of his friends. While Nan McCarthy’s Live ‘Til I Die lovingly reveals the man her father was before his mind and his body were ravaged by alcohol, neither does it flinch from the realities of the effects his drinking had on the people who loved him, on his career, and on his body. The result is a strangely uplifting memoir filled with humanity, compassion, and forgiveness—a modern-day Studs Lonigan infused with a sense of hope. Click here to read a sample chapter of Live ‘Til I Die or for information on how to order.
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Creating a successful design these days often requires just as much technical knowledge as it does creativity. "Quark Design" wraps both of these elements into one package. In this book, you'll find hundreds of ideas for creating stunning, effective designs. In the process, you'll learn the actual steps taken by designers to execute their ideas in QuarkXPress, with hints and tips on how to get from concept to printed materials via the most efficient route. Jam-packed with four-color illustrations and easily digestible captions, "Quark Design" serves as an idea generator as well as a step-by-step instruction guide on how to use QuarkXPress. Looking through the books' 144 visually oriented pages, you'll learn design secrets and production tips from top designers throughout the United States. This book covers QuarkXPress version 3.3. The following foreign editions are available from their respective publishers: Japan (Graphic-sha International) China (Art Distribution Centre Ltd.) Spain (Gustavo Gill)
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