Mine All Mine
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
The Awful Truth
The Life
Make That Four
Heaven, or: Last April at the Frick
New Punch Line
The J-Mart Employee of the Year Pleads His Case
Reminder
Auto-Nav
Our Greatest Hit Hits Again, or: Who Is the Rat Burglar?
I’m the Mang?
Me vs. the Goldfish
Size Matters
Life of Crime
I High-Beam the Dream
What the Covet Girl Tells Me
How Memory Harvesting Can Save Your Life
The Sound of Our Future Together
Bullet by Bullet
The Effects of Drinking and Dosing
A Bra Tells the Truth
Gun Therapy
WWPD: What Would Pinkerton Do?
The Nakamura Job
The Treachery of Images
Herk to the Rescue
The Truth About Herkimer
The Polecat
Do I or Don’t I?
The World I Know Nothing About
Kong’s Price
Bathroom Talk
Good Start
Reunited
Baconmouth
Teamwork
A Picture of Loveliness
The Forty-fifth Murder
The Unreachable
Ambiguity
Exit
Sacrifice
Otto Starks, Supernova
Snitching
Clean Getaway
Acknowledgements
PRAISE FOR GOODBYE LEMON
“A family drama that makes Oedipus look like The Brady Bunch...evocative and emotionally true. High Fidelity and Less Than Zero fans will devour it as quickly as a three-minute pop song.” —USA Today
“Heartrending . . . A droll delight.” —Harper’s Bazaar
“Smart and vicious and cutting.” —New York Post
“Davies does an excellent job of showing how childhood events can become distorted through time and memory.” —Elle
“A story that soars on the same jet stream of inspired wordplay and literary tics that made The Frog King a dazzling read. Bitter, smart, and soaked in dark humor, Jack and his narrative harbor enormous heart.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
PRAISE FOR THE FROG KING
“Probably the funniest young-guy-in-New-York novel since Bright Lights, Big City.” —Bret Easton Ellis
“The literary invention, metaphorical pizzazz, and sheer cleverness of the prose and wordplay in The Frog King is astonishing.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Truly hilarious and so much more—totally original and yet classic, romantic, and real. With his first book, Davies has become one of my all-time favorite authors. And since I can’t kiss Harry—hard to believe he’s just a character in a book—I’ll kiss the book instead.”
—Jennifer Belle
“In his sly, slippery way, Davies picks apart language and puts it back together, offering us a tell-all exposé of the publishing industry.... Davies’s story is as touching and hilarious as Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, as heartfelt and ironic as Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. [And] unlike Eggers, Davies delivers right to the last page.” —The Baltimore Sun
“One of the more appealing literary narrators to surface recently . . . Davies has created a clever tale that delivers moments of simple beauty.” —Chicago Tribune
“A frisky coming-of-age novel sure to have reviewers reaching for Bright Lights, Big City analogies and High Fidelity comparisons.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Adam Davies has a delicious command of the English language. He coins so many phrases in The Frog King he should probably start his own currency.... Kiss this frog. You won’t be sorry.”