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List of All Possible Desires: A Novel in Stories

List of All Possible Desires: A Novel in Stories

Landis, Dylan

Hardcover

Series: The Rainey Royal Cycle

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 1641297328
ISBN13: 9781641297325
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.01
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.36
Language: English
A dazzling novel in stories following Rainey Royal--a young artist coming of age through the tumult of New York City in the '70s and '80s--and her family across generations of obsession, betrayal, and reinvention, written with the trademark beauty and precision of Dylan Landis. For fans of Mary Gaitskill and Lauren Groff.

In postwar Paris, over the course of one fateful day, a boy's crush on his nanny ignites into a destructive passion that burns into his memory and reveals to him the disquieting world of adult secrets. In 1950s New York City, a naïve caretaker struggles to protect her charge, a married woman paralyzed by her recent stroke, as new bruises appear each day on her body. In the 1970s, a fragile cousin wanders into the Royal family's chaotic jazz-filled townhouse, where music, sex, and ruin intertwine. And at the heart of these stories is Rainey Royal herself, coming of age in Greenwich Village, inventing herself as an artist through the tumult of the '70s and '80s.

By turns shocking, erotic, and deeply humane, List of All Possible Desires is a haunting portrait of family and history. It is joined by the expanded re-issues of the novel Rainey Royal and the novel in stories Normal People Don't Live Like This to create the Rainey Royal Cycle. Each book stands on its own, yet together they echo and amplify each other, creating a world of almost unbearable richness and intensity.

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