{"product_id":"golden-delicious-isbn-9781612195100","title":"Golden Delicious","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"What a crazed, beautiful book ... Boucher makes the world come alive by making language come alive.\"\u003c\/i\u003e —\u003cb\u003e George Saunders \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the writer Emily St. John Mandel (\u003ci\u003eStation Eleven) \u003c\/i\u003ecalled \"Strange and dazzling\" comes a funny, \u003cb\u003eheartbreaking, \u003c\/b\u003eand wildly imaginative tale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWelcome to Appleseed, Massachusetts, where stories grow in soil,  sentences are kept as pets, and pianos change your point of view. \u003ci\u003eGolden Delicious\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the narrator's rich, vivid childhood - driving to the local  flea market with his father, causing trouble at school, pedaling through  the neighborhood on his Bicycle Built for Two.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut as the local  economy sours, the narrator's family is torn apart. His mother joins a  flying militia known as The Mothers; his father takes an all-consuming  job; his sister runs away for a better life elsewhere. Who will save  Appleseed? Will it be the Memory of Johnny Appleseed? The Mothers? The  narrator himself?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGolden Delicious \u003c\/i\u003eis the eagerly awaited follow-up to Christopher Boucher's acclaimed debut, \u003ci\u003eHow to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive. \u003c\/i\u003eIt's a tour-de-force unlike any other, that takes you to the heart of family, love and memory.“What a crazed, beautiful book—a joyful example of \u003ci\u003enecessary\u003c\/i\u003e experimentation, i.e., an experiment whose purpose is to accommodate more beauty and truth. As in his first book, \u003ci\u003eHow to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive\u003c\/i\u003e, Boucher makes the world come alive by making \u003ci\u003elanguage\u003c\/i\u003e come alive.” \u003cb\u003e—George Saunders, author of \u003ci\u003eTenth of December\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The best kind of modern fiction: inventive, expansive, with endless heart and narrative verve ... This book will restore your belief in the possibility of the novel. Read this book now.” —\u003cb\u003eJoe Meno, author of \u003ci\u003eHairstyles of the Damned\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Infused with...strange brilliance...The language in Boucher’s novel isn’t just alive; it gets into fights...Funny, and also deeply, improbably moving,..The entire high-wire act is in service to a deadly serious story about belonging, and about the agonies and joys of being in a family.”—\u003cb\u003eEmily St. John Mandel, \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bonkers, in the best way ... Part bildungsroman, part picaresque, and part meta-commentary on reading ... The beauty of Boucher’s concept is that Golden Delicious can afford to be an utter hodgepodge peppered with nearly inexplicable happenings and still make an elegant sort of sense.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tender, amusing, and moving.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Alt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Golden Delicious\u003c\/i\u003e, is probably like nothing you’ve ever read…Boucher writes simultaneously very seriously and with a palpable sense of delight in words and also in the world. It’s delicious.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An odd, clever, and thoroughly enjoyable experience.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(starred)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With the imaginative spirit that earned him praise for his debut,\u003ci\u003eHow to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive \u003c\/i\u003e(2011), Boucher’s second novel solidifies him as a master of evoking compassion through absurd, shape- shifting landscapes … As wacky as it is recognizable, Boucher’s capricious world filled with delightful wordplay is strikingly vivid, funny, and moving.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBooklist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\/American Library Association\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Storytelling is split weirdly, beautifully, open…After feasting on this book…your brain is bound to be doing syntactical backflips.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Valley Advocate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A book that takes farce, fantasy and metaphors off in unpredictable directions.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Daily Hampshire Gazette\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Prepare to…question the very act of literature as you consume this book.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Thread\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Praise for \u003ci\u003eHow to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Strange and dazzling...Through all the insanity and dizzying leaps of logic that make up Boucher's world are a series of absolutely human and recognizable truths.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Emily St. John Mandel, \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Boucher’s first novel is one of the most original books you will read this year.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Roxane Gay, \u003ci\u003eHTMLGiant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “As moving as it is fun, \u003ci\u003eHow to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive\u003c\/i\u003e is definitely the next book you should read.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Adam Levin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Instructions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Christopher Boucher joins a now-forgotten handbook with Steven Wright's old joke about mistakenly sticking a car key in a house door and builds a new, exuberant novel-world. Goofiness and grief are in perfect harmony in this impressive, moving debut.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Sam Lipsyte, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ask\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eCHRISTOPHER BOUCHER is author of the widely praised novels \u003ci\u003eHow to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBig Giant Floating Head\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches literature and writing at Boston College, and is editor of the literary journal \u003ci\u003ePost Road\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Northampton, MA.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302946787557,"sku":"NP9781612195100","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781612195100.jpg?v=1742929481","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/golden-delicious-isbn-9781612195100","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}