- "The Archivist, Martha Cooley's first novel, was a national bestseller and a "New York Times Notable Book.- With the assurance, complexity, and depth of a work by Bulgakov, DeLillo, or Poe, Martha Cooley's extraordinary second novel is further evidence that she is one of the most gifted writers at work today.

Thirty-Three Swoons

Literature & Fiction

COOLEY, Martha

United States

Back Bay Books

A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel -- a story of marriage and madness, of faith and desire, of jazz-age New York and Europe in the shadow of the Holocaust. The Archivist was a word-of-mouth bestseller and one of the most jubilantly acclaimed first novels of recent years.

The Archivist

Contemporary

A battle of wills between Matt, a careful, orderly archivist for a private university, and Roberta, a determined young poet, over a collection of T.S. Eliot's letters, sealed by bequest until 2019, sparks an unusual friendship and reawakens painful memories of the past

Little,Brown & Co

Her dreams haunted by a mysterious masked figure who offers her reinventions of her oppressed past, theater memorabilia seller Camilla Archer discovers that the man in her dreams is connected to a legendary Russian director who was killed during Stalin's regime. By the author of The Archivist.

Thirty-three Swoons: A Novel

Little. Brown and Company

Archivist, The

Boston: Little, Brown

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Described by Publishers Weekly as Cooley's "sharp latest", "Cooley has a sure hand in probing the intersection of artistic ambition and money. This hopeful take is sure to move readers." In Brooklyn, New York, in 2005, Ellen Portinari buys a lottery ticket on a whim; not long after, she realizes she's won a hundred-million-dollar jackpot. With a month to redeem the ticket, she tells no one but her alcoholic brother--a talented composer whose girlfriend has died in a terrorist attack abroad--about her preposterous good luck. As the clock ticks, Ellen caroms from incredulity to giddiness to dread as she tries to reckon with the potential consequences of her win. She becomes unexpectedly involved with a man and boy she's met at her local gym. While she grapples with the burden of secret-keeping and the tug of a new intimacy, a Brooklyn street artist named Blair Talpa is contending with her own challenges: a missing brother, an urge to make art that will "derange orbits," and a lack of money. En route to redeem the lottery ticket, Ellen finds her prospects entwining by chance with Blair's--which allows Ellen to reimagine luck's relation to loss, and the reader to revel in surprise.

Buy Me Love

Literary

Red Hen Press

"[A] splendid and subtle memoir in essays" ―The New York Times Book ReviewHaving lost eight friends in ten years, Cooley retreats to a tiny medieval village in Italy with her husband. There, in a rural paradise where bumblebees nest in the ancient cemetery and stray cats curl up on her bed, she examines a question both easily evaded and unavoidable: mortality. How do we grieve? How do we go on drinking our morning coffee, loving our life partners, stumbling through a world of such confusing, exquisite beauty? 
Linking the essays is Cooley’s escalating understanding of another loss on the way, that of her ailing mother back in the States. Blind since Cooley’s childhood, her mother relies on dry wit to ward off grief and pity. There seems no way for the two of them to discuss her impending death. But somehow, by the end, Cooley finds the words, each one graceful and wrenching. 
Part memoir, part loving goodbye to an unconventional parent, Guesswork transforms a year in a pastoral hill town into a fierce examination of life, love, death, and, ultimately, release.

Guesswork: A Reckoning With Loss

Parenting & Relationships

Catapult

El archivero (Spanish Edition)

CIRCE

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Thirty-Three Swoons

The Archivist

The Archivist

Thirty-three Swoons: A Novel

Archivist, The

The Archivist

Buy Me Love

Guesswork: A Reckoning With Loss

El archivero (Spanish Edition)