Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
Riverhead
A bit like a Brit version of Lisa Kudrow's look at fame, "The Comeback," but set in the 1960s, the latest novel from Hornby ("High Fidelity," "About a Boy") stars Barbara Parker, a girl from working class town of Blackpool whose idol is Lucille Ball. When we first meet her, she's just won the local beauty pageant but quickly resigns and sets off for London — much to her father's chagrin — to become the Lucy of the UK, just before the Beatles break big in 1964. She winds up on a popular BBC sitcom, "Barbara (and Jim)," with a great supporting cast — the male star she overshadows, the producer who falls for her and the gay writers with their own problems.
Holy Cow by David Duchovny
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Meet the new Madame Bovary. Elsie Bovary, the narrator of "X-Files" and "Californication" star Duchovny's debut novel — a fable about tolerance — is a cow on a small farm in upstate New York. Having read "Charlotte's Web" and hearing how cows are slaughtered, Elsie plots her escape, teaming up with Jerry, a pig who seeks sanctuary among the kosher and halal residents of Jerusalem, and Tom Turkey, who wants to move to the country that bears his name. You'll go vegetarian.
We Are Pirates by Daniel Handler
Bloomsbury
A series of unfortunate events — this time for adults. Handler, author of the best-selling Lemony Snicket children's books, pens a grown-up tale about Paul Needle, a struggling West Coast radio announcer. When his 14-year-old daughter, Gwen, is arrested for shoplifting, she is sentenced to community service in a nursing home. While reading books about pirates to an elderly man with early Alzheimer's, she decides to become a pirate. As she and her crew terrorize San Francisco Bay, her depressed dad must snap out of it and get Gwen home.
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh
Doubleday
Say hello to Miami noir. Walsh, the Scottish author of irony-laced drug-culture comedies like "Trainspotting," takes on American obsession with fame and physical fitness — via psychotic Miami Beach personal trainer Lucy Brennan, whose obsessions include all of the above plus what's mentioned in the novel's title. Lucy's own 15 minutes of fame comes from saving a pedophile's life. Meanwhile, a depressed, overweight client is obsessed with Lucy. Things go downhill from there.
The Tutor by Andrea Chapin
Riverhead
A Shakespeare story with a New York state of mind. Chapin's debut novel imagines the young Bard working as a tutor in fictional home called Lufanwal Hall. It's the same name Chapin's great grandfather gave to the Westchester house he built in 1910. In the novel, a young, unknown Shakespeare is hired to school the boys of the house. He falls for Katherine, a widowed and educated niece of the lord of the manor. They embark on a yearlong affair with words and each other. An imagined story that you'll wish were as real as the Hastings-on-Hudson house.
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