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<TABLE bgcolor="000000"><TR valign="top"><TD> <P>MATTHEW MCINTOSH . WELL<BR><NOBR>ISBN 0-8021-1751-1</NOBR><BR> 288 pp . hardcover . Grove Press, NY</FONT><BR> <FONT color="666666">copyright © 2003 Matthew McIntosh<BR> <BR><FONT color="white"> A <i>LOS ANGELES TIMES</i> BESTSELLER<BR> </TD> <TD> <P>(This site uses frames. If you have disabled frames, please enable to correctly view this site.)</P> <P>  <P STYLE="color:#999999; font-size:9pt;"> <SPAN class="redcallout3">home</SPAN> .  <A class="nav" HREF="contents.html">contents</A>  .  <A class="nav" HREF="interviews.html">interviews</A>  .  <A class="nav" HREF="reviews.html">reviews</A>  .  <A HREF="purchase.html" class="nav">purchase</A>  .  <A HREF="hello.html" class="nav">hello</A></P>  <BR> <P STYLE="border: 1px solid #666666; cellpadding:2px; text-align:center;"> <SPAN class="redcallout"> &nbsp ny NEW: &nbsp </SPAN> WELL is available now in Swedish translation <NOBR>(Forum)</NOBR><NOBR> . <A HREF="http://www.forum.se/1100/1100.asp?ArticleId=9137124250" target="_blank">forum.se</A> </NOBR> </P> <SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 100px;"> <BR> <h1 class="redsubhead"> HELLO</h1> <P STYLE="margin-left:20px; color:white; font-size:11pt; line-height:18pt;"> Youve reached the official site for <i>Well</i>, the new novel from Matthew McIntosh. <BR><BR> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left:30px; font-style:italic;"> Whos it for?</SPAN> <BR> <BR> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left:30px; font-style:italic;">Whats it about?</SPAN> <BR><BR> Look around. . .</P> <BR> <P class="outdent"><FONT color="FF0000" size="2"><B>[</B></FONT> From the drive-thru wastelands of our American suburbs . . . here comes <i>Well</i>, the critically acclaimed, bestselling novel from Matthew McIntosh—a novel of faith and hope and love, about life at the bottom and the search for relief in the transcendent. <BR><BR>Boxers, bartenders, and data-entry technicians, fishermen, mothers, and exotic dancers, would-be kings and queens of the punk rock scene, sparemen and gunmen and soon-to-be-dead men: &nbsp they search in the body—in sex and drugs and violence—and in Visions of Apocalypse and Creation, dreams of angels and killers and local sports championships. Formally and structurally a first of its kind, <i>Well</i> is a novel for the new century.</P> <BR> <h1 class="redsubhead8">REGARDING WELL</h1> <P> <P class="outdent"> <FONT color="FF0000" size="2"><B> [</B></FONT><SPAN class="whitecallout"> "Matthew McIntosh. . . is the real thing—</SPAN><FONT color="AAAAAA">a tremendously gifted and supple prose hand, recounting all manner of human distress and extremity in an assured and generous voice, balancing, as all honest practitioners of the fictional art must, the delicately pitched forces of fate, remorse and grace.&quot </FONT><FONT color="CCCCCC"> <U>WASHINGTON POST</U></FONT></P> <P class="outdent"> <FONT color="FF0000" size="2"><B> [</B></FONT><SPAN class="whitecallout"> "A first book of daring and accomplishment.&quot </SPAN><FONT color="CCCCCC"> <NOBR><U>TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT</U></NOBR> (UK)</FONT></P> <P class="outdent"> <FONT color="FF0000" size="2"><B> [</B></FONT><FONT color="white"> ". . . Ultimately, that's what this astonishing book is about: &nbsp compassion and love, suffering and redemption. <FONT color="AAAAAA">And by the end, you're wrung out and bewildered, having been dragged through </FONT><FONT color="white">something huge, something miraculous,</FONT> punch drunk on all the love and squalor. <IMG SRC="images/5_star_sml.gif">&quot &nbsp </FONT> <NOBR><FONT color="CCCCCC"> <U>UNCUT</U> (UK)</FONT></NOBR></P> <P class="outdent"> <FONT color="FF0000" size="2"><B> [</B></FONT><FONT color="AAAAAA"> "This book is a real joy to experience . . . and it is an experience, </FONT><FONT color="white">a wonderfully human experience."</FONT> &nbsp <FONT color="CCCCCC"><NOBR>HUBERT SELBY, JR</NOBR></FONT></P> <P class="outdent"><FONT color="FF0000" size="2"><B> [</B></FONT> <FONT COLOR="white">"This really is fiction of the highest order. <IMG SRC="images/5_star_sml.gif">"</FONT><FONT color="CCCCCC"> &nbsp <NOBR><u>BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH</U> (UK)</NOBR></FONT> <P> <A HREF="reviews.html" onMouseOver="this.style.color='CCCCCC'" onMouseOut="this.style.color='999999'" style="color: 999999; text-decoration: none; font-size:8pt; margin-left:8pt" border="0">read more reviews</A> <BR></FONT></FONT> <h1 class="redsubhead8">WELL IN THE WORLD</h1> <DL><DT class="white">Editions du Seuil, Paris France</DT> <DD>released in translation: september 2004 . isbn 2-02-061335.2</DD> <DT class="white">Faber & Faber, London UK</DT> <DD>released: august 2003</DD> <DT class="white">Vassallucci, Amsterdam The Netherlands</DT> <DD><A HREF="http://www.vassallucci.nl/vassa/flappen/5349well.htm" target="_blank">www.vassallucci.nl</a></DD> <DT class="white">Mondadori, Milan Italy</DT> <DD>released in translation</DD> <DT class="white">Mondadori, Barcelona Spain</DT> <DD>released in translation</DD> <DT class="white">Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Koln Germany</DT> <DD><A HREF="http://www.kiwi-koeln.de/mainpage.php?frame=buchinhalt&sektion=KiWi_Paperbacks&buchid=4726&fromautor=1" target="_blank">www.kiwi-koeln.de</A></DD> <DT class="white">Forum, Stockholm Sweden</DT> <DD><A HREF="http://www.forum.se/1100/1100.asp?ArticleId=9137124250" target="_blank">www.forum.se</A><DD> <BR><BR> </TD></TR></TABLE> </TD><TD WIDTH="7%"></TD></TR> </TABLE>