Bottle Grove: A Novel - Tapa dura

Set in San Francisco during the Big Bang of tech, this taut novel sees two marriages form and mutate under the influence of greed, secrets, and income inequality. With this dark, timely comedy, Handler continues to prove himself a writer of prodigious gifts. (Esquire, "Most Anticipated Books of the Year")

The shadow of this fox looms throughout the book, prowling through the city and seducing and consuming the lives of Handler's characters. This sense of the inhuman and predatory . . . serves as the backdrop of the novel: a rapidly changing San Francisco that, to some, feels like it is eating its own. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Handler spices up the tech-novel's conventions with a bit of fantasy. (Washington Post)

A timely satire of love, wealth and the meaning of home . . . A hilarious yet bittersweet love letter to San Francisco. (Shelf Awareness)

A clever cocktail of people, places and plotlines that swill around in your soul. (San Jose Mercury News)

Delightfully and caustically wise. (San Francisco Magazine)

A hilarious tale about unlikely couples set during the San Francisco dot-com explosion. . . . Handler cleverly exposes the sinister sides of his protagonists as they clamor for what they think they deserve. Readers expecting Handler's trademark humor and bite won't be disappointed. (Publishers Weekly)

A drunkenly humorous blend of alcohol, entrepreneurial ambitions, and a dash of cheating . . . [Handler's] quickwitted, timely characters and offbeat but perceptive one-liners make for an intoxicating delight. . . . Funny, irreverent, and clever. (Booklist)

This witty book is, like San Francisco itself, simultaneously glossy and grimy, hi-tech and low-life. Daniel Handler is one of the quickest minds around, and he is clearly having a grand time here, taking the reader down a drunken path that is both dreamy and as fast-paced as a screwball comedy. (Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of MODERN LOVERS and THE VACATIONERS)

Bottle Grove is a cozy bar, a haunted forest, and a spellbinding new novel by a master of contemporary fiction. With his sly sense of humor and surpassing wisdom about the wildness that exists just below the surface of our lives, Daniel Handler has created an entrancing and very modern story that doubles as a folklore for our time. It's one of those rare novels that you really don't want to end, and you're in luck, because you can read it again. (Tom Drury, author of PACIFIC)