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The Glitch in Sleep was first published in the US and UK as a hardcover on September 18, 2007. [3] About two months later the audiobook version was released on November 1, 2007. [4] The paperback was released along with a new cover on August 19, 2008. [4] On July 7, 2008 a new cover was again released as a paperback.
Mansbach wrote the "children's book for adults" Go the Fuck to Sleep, parodying bedtime stories. [2] Other books Mansbach has written include Angry Black White Boy , a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005, [ 3 ] and The End of the Jews [ 4 ] (for which he won the California Book Award for fiction in 2008).
The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by American author J. D. Salinger that was partially published in serial form in 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951. Originally intended for adults, it is often read by adolescents for its themes of angst and alienation, and as a critique of superficiality in society.
Go the Fuck to Sleep is a satirical book written by American author Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Ricardo Cortés.Described as a "children's book for adults", [1] it reached No. 1 on Amazon.com's bestseller list a month before its release, thanks to an unintended viral marketing campaign during which booksellers forwarded PDF copies of the book by e-mail.
A young child, asleep in his bed, awakes to hear a sound he describes as "a sound like someone trying not to make a sound". The child wakes his father and describes the sound to him. The child believes that the sound comes from a "monster with no arms and legs", which "slides on its fur" and "pulls itself along on its teeth". [ 1 ]
Nately starts off the book as a 19-year-old Lieutenant, who will be "twenty next January" and who came from a very rich and respected family. (In a flashback his mother reminds him that—in contrast to such vulgar upstarts as the Astors, "whose family, I believe, still lets rooms," and the "vulgar tugboat captain" Vanderbilt—"You are a Nately, and the Natelys have never done anything for ...
First-time author Cait Corrain dropped by U.S. publisher and agent after readers and fellow authors accused her of posting fake negative reviews on Goodreads.
Before I Go to Sleep is the first novel by S. J. Watson, published in the spring of 2011. It became both a Sunday Times and The New York Times bestseller [ 1 ] and has been translated into over 40 languages, [ 2 ] and has become a bestseller in France, Canada, Bulgaria and the Netherlands. [ 3 ]