Late City

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Robert Olen Butler uses contemporary newspaper headlines to build rich historical backdrops throughout, from small town Louisiana in the early 1900s, to the trenches in France in WWI, to Chicago from the 1920s on. We cross paths with Al Capone, Huey Long, and more along the way. Butler has support from booksellers across the country and we expect wide review coverage. For readers of Paulette Jiles's News of the World, Kate Atkinson's Life After Life, and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being. This is Robert Olen Butler's first literary novel since Perfume River, which was a finalist for the 2017 Southern Book Prize, was longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and garnered praise from the New York Times Book Review, New Yorker, Miami Herald, Washington Post, and Richard Ford, among others. Butler's A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and has sold over 250, 000 copies worldwide. He received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature and is also the recipient of two National Magazine Awards.