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Dream State

An Oprah's Book Club Pick

Eric Puchner

$49.99

Hardback

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Sceptre
08 May 2025
'A decade-spanning epic'

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'As funny as it is devastating... I haven't been this dazzled by a novel in a long time'

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'Gorgeous... It's being hailed by some as the next great American novel'

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'I loved Dream State. I did not stop reading it for three days straight'

JESSIE BURTON, author of The House of Fortune and The Miniaturist

'A book of tears, laughter, longing, regrets and filled to the brim with life . . . a wonder'

ANDREW SEAN GREER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less

'Dream State delivers everything I want in a novel'

ELIN HILDERBRAND, author of The Perfect Couple

'A masterpiece'

ADAM JOHNSON, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master's Son

Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her in-laws' beautiful lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a cardiac anaesthesiologist with a brilliant future.

When Charlie asks Garrett, his best friend from college, to officiate the ceremony, Cece can't imagine anyone less appropriate for the task. After all, Garrett, a depressed baggage handler at the local airport, doesn't believe in marriage. But as she spends time with him and his gruff mask slips, she grows increasingly uncertain about her future, leading to an impulsive decision that will alter the three friends' lives forever - the events of that summer reverberating across fifty years and spanning generations.

Simultaneously following in the tradition of the great American novel and reinventing it from within, Dream State is at once an elegy to the endangered West, a study of the unholy catastrophe of marriage and a tender ode to the enduring beauty of friendship.
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Imprint:   Sceptre
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 240mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9781399744126
ISBN 10:   1399744127
Pages:   448
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Eric Puchner is the author of the novel Model Home, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of a California Book Award, and two collections of short stories. He has received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and is an associate professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Baltimore with his family.

Reviews for Dream State: An Oprah's Book Club Pick

A book of tears, laughter, longing, regrets and filled to the brim with life. Dream State is a wonder of character and craft -- Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LESS Dream State is a masterpiece. A glittering, evocative achievement -- Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON Dream State is a gorgeous exploration of time, grief, love, and the way that the commitments we make turn us into the people we become . . . brilliant -- Danielle Evans, author of THE OFFICE OF HISTORICAL CORRECTIONS Dream State delivers everything I want in a novel: a love triangle, a moving friendship story, a delicious setting (including some of the best skiing scenes I've ever read in my life) and rumination about how we search for meaning in our lives . . . an absolute masterpiece -- Elin Hilderbrand, author of THE PERFECT COUPLE Dream State explores several monumental themes - love, family, identity, human transience, climate change - but always with a scrupulous attention to the fate of individuals, and always with a powerful sense of intimate connection . . . a remarkable achievement -- Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate Eric Puchner has populated his engrossing and deeply affecting novel with characters so complicated and sympathetic that we want - we need - to know how their lives will turn out, and what will happen to the glorious and fragile landscape they inhabit -- Francine Prose, author of READING LIKE A WRITER Dream State is a delight. Every scene, every character, every sentence, is infused with Eric Puchner's intelligence and wit. An exquisitely rendered novel about the vagaries of fate, and friendship, and love -- Alice McDermott, National Book Award winner and author of ABSOLUTION Funny and wild, here is some of the most beautiful writing that I have ever read -- Matthew Klam, author of WHO IS RICH? Lush, immersive, devastating, and stunningly alive, Dream State did the thing the very best novels do: pulled me relentlessly into its characters, its setting, concerns, losses, and triumphs, only to let me loose again with a sharper, clearer vision of the world outside -- Lynn Steger Strong, author of THE FLOAT TEST


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