Back Bay Books

This novel tells the nostalgic and moving story of Mahastee and Reza, who loved each other as children but have not seen each other for 20 years »»

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connec..»»

Malcolm Gladwell's highly imaginative pop treatise on the flow of goods and ideas in society reached a tipping point of its own, spending many weeks on the New York Times best-seller list , and then appearing for weeks on both lists following its paperback publication. Proposing a contagion model, in which things spread through the population like viruses, Gladwell examines a range of phenomena--t..»»