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In the wake of her father's death and the vice president's campaign for the presidency, young Secret Service agent Vi Asplund returns to her New Hampshire home to the side of her eccentric computer genius brother, who is poised to make a fortune on a nihilistic video game. 20,000 first printing.
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PRAISE FOR "BIG IF"
"He has created a thoroughly original universe . . . With his second novel, Costello enters the big leagues of American fiction."--Jay McInerney," The New York Times Book Review"
"Each page of this governmental novel comes alive with intelligence, comedy, and inside dope."--Jonathan Franzen
"A supremely funny and engaging novel of great seriousness about family life, about the American small town under the influence of global forces, about the fear of death . . . Costello has done it, with energy, brilliance, and the shifting intonations of a great improv actor in the realm of lasting truths."--Vince Passaro, "O Magazine"
PRAISE FOR "BIG IF"
"He has created a thoroughly original universe . . . With his second novel, Costello enters the big leagues of American fiction."--Jay McInerney, " The New York Times Book Review"
"Each page of this governmental novel comes alive with intelligence, comedy, and inside dope."--Jonathan Franzen
"A supremely funny and engaging novel of great seriousness about family life, about the American small town under the influence of global forces, about the fear of death . . . Costello has done it, with energy, brilliance, and the shifting intonations of a great improv actor in the realm of lasting truths."--Vince Passaro, "O Magazine"
The only great novel ever written about the Secret Service. Part thriller, part black comedy, it belongs on the same high shelf as the best books of Don DeLillo and Jonathan Franzen.--Ben Dolnick
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"He has created a thoroughly original universe . . . With his second novel, Costello enters the big leagues of American fiction."--Jay McInerney," The New York Times Book Review"
"Each page of this governmental novel comes alive with intelligence, comedy, and inside dope."--Jonathan Franzen
"A supremely funny and engaging novel of great seriousness about family life, about the American small town under the influence of global forces, about the fear of death . . . Costello has done it, with energy, brilliance, and the shifting intonations of a great improv actor in the realm of lasting truths."--Vince Passaro, "O Magazine"
PRAISE FOR "BIG IF"
"He has created a thoroughly original universe . . . With his second novel, Costello enters the big leagues of American fiction."--Jay McInerney, " The New York Times Book Review"
"Each page of this governmental novel comes alive with intelligence, comedy, and inside dope."--Jonathan Franzen
"A supremely funny and engaging novel of great seriousness about family life, about the American small town under the influence of global forces, about the fear of death . . . Costello has done it, with energy, brilliance, and the shifting intonations of a great improv actor in the realm of lasting truths."--Vince Passaro, "O Magazine"
The only great novel ever written about the Secret Service. Part thriller, part black comedy, it belongs on the same high shelf as the best books of Don DeLillo and Jonathan Franzen.--Ben Dolnick
Mark Costello worked as a federal prosecutor for five years before writing Bag Men, his first novel, under the name John Flood. He lives in New York.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0393051161
- ISBN 13 9780393051162
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