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DEAR MONEY – Forthcoming June 2010

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ADVANCED PRAISE

“I can’t remember the last time I couldn’t put a book down.  I read DEAR MONEY in cars, in waiting rooms, even at a rest stop on the turnpike.  I read whole passages out loud to my husband.  Martha McPhee is a wickedly good social observer, a writer of beautiful, lyrical prose, and a consummate storyteller.  This is a very smart novel that unpacks small surprises and pleasures on every single page.”—Dani Shapiro, Black & White

“A skilled, always gripping satire of our foolish age.”—Joseph O’Neill, Netherland

“Martha McPhee writes with verve and uncanny insight about those recent, heady dreams of easy wealth. This New York Pygmalian story takes us beyond what we thought we knew about money and art and all their precarious alliances, in an adventure that recreates the city’s temptations, both material and idealistic. Dear Money is conceived with such cutting precision and grace, it will make readers think of a contemporary Edith Wharton, but there’s a dark mischief here too, shades of Andy Warhol. Full of beautiful, unflinching sentences, this is an uncompromising, brave, brilliant story.”—Rene Steinke, Holy Skirts

L’AMERICA

“L’America is a heartbreaker of a book about everyday people made extraordinary by love.”—Washington Post Book World

“Beth walk[s] in the footsetps of Daisy Miller and Isabel rcher. McPhee has plenty of fun updating Jamesian tensions for the NATO era.”—The New York Times Book Review

Beth and Cesare meet in Greece, she an American dreamer and he an Italian heir. Their love affair begins in the warmth and brilliance of the Aegean Sea. As their passion spans time and continents, their lives are forever entangled–their love a dizzying, exquisite story of culture, and the bonds we cannot break.

GORGEOUS LIES

Nominated for a National book Award in 2002

“[McPhee] avoids the extremes of hippie nostalgia and conservative revisionism and doesn’t provide simple answers. Her prose captures the Chardin mood: Elegant and airy, it seems to levitate even the grubbiest details.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

“I loved this book. A genuine work of art…And Martha McPhee plainly ranks as one of our country’s best young writers.”—Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried

Charismatic therapist Anton Furey is dying, and the tribe he heads–his five children, his wife’s three, and their uniting child, Alice–has returned to Chardin, the farm where they grew up and played out Anton’s vision of communal living. They had been famous for being the new American blended family, their utopian lifestyle chronicled by film crews and reporters.  But as Anton grows weaker, the hurts and betrayels of those years boil to the surface, and the children find themselves reliving their knotty intimacies as they struggle to make their peace with Anton–and themselves. With shimmering prose and an acutely observant eye, McPhee had created a portrait of a family that explores the limits, and obligations, of love.

BRIGHT ANGEL TIME

“To get a sense of what Martha McPhee’s affecting first novel s like, imagine Rabbit Run or Revolutionary Road written from the point of view of an 8-year-old  child…Ms. McPhee shares her father John McPhee’s gift for fine, lapidary prose. Blessed with a poets ear for language and a reporter’s eye for detail, she proves with this volume that she is also a gifted novelist, a writer with the ability to surprise and move us.” – Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“Bright Angel Time is a gorgeous novel with subtle things to say about America in the wake of the first divorce boom…McPhee writes such lovely sentences that you want to do more than just underline them: you want to cut them out.” –Newsweek

The time is the early 1970s. Eight-year-old Kate and her sisters adopt a life on the road when their divorced mother falls in love with someone new. Introduced to a lifestyle marked by strange freedom, the girls fall into a way of living that is vastly different from the one they knew with their geologist father. And it is with him, amid the beauty of his beloved Grand Canyon, that adult distractions and carelessness finally threaten to explode and ruin Kate’s life. Rich in character, imagery, and humor, and providing a vivid picture of a decade when values and morels were turned upside down, Bright Angel Time is that rarity, a brilliant and moving novel from an authentic talent.