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[ From the drive-thru wastelands of our American suburbs . . . here comes Well, 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.

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:   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, Well is a novel for the new century.

REGARDING WELL

[ "Matthew McIntosh. . . is the real thing—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." WASHINGTON POST

[ "A first book of daring and accomplishment." TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (UK)

[ ". . . Ultimately, that's what this astonishing book is about:   compassion and love, suffering and redemption. And by the end, you're wrung out and bewildered, having been dragged through something huge, something miraculous, punch drunk on all the love and squalor. "   UNCUT (UK)

[ "This book is a real joy to experience . . . and it is an experience, a wonderfully human experience."   HUBERT SELBY, JR

[ "This really is fiction of the highest order. "   BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH (UK)

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WELL IN THE WORLD

Editions du Seuil, Paris France

released in translation: september 2004 . isbn 2-02-061335.2

Faber & Faber, London UK

released: august 2003

Vassallucci, Amsterdam The Netherlands

www.vassallucci.nl

Mondadori, Milan Italy

released in translation

Mondadori, Barcelona Spain

released in translation

Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Koln Germany

www.kiwi-koeln.de

Forum, Stockholm Sweden

www.forum.se