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Pre-order Releases Jan 5, 2027

Hardcover

Cold Fusion: A Novel

by Paul Grimstad

$14.75 / copy at 25+ copies As low as $12.25 at 1,000+Your best volume price

160 pages Simon & Schuster ISBN 9781668251201
Cold Fusion: A Novel book cover by Paul Grimstad
Ships on release · Jan 5 Releases Tuesday, January 5, 2027. Pre-order now: your copies ship on release and usually arrive around the release date.

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About the book

Cold Fusion

An offbeat, funny and moving coming-of-age campus novel by a Yale professor and film actor (One Battle After Another, Marty Supreme) in the tradition of John Williams’s Stoner, Michael Chabon’s Wonder Boys and Elif Batuman’s The Idiot.

It’s the start of another fall semester at a midwestern university in the 1990s. Arriving on the foliage-and-flannel-filled campus is an unusual, unnamed freshman. Grieving the recent death of his father, he lives in a hotel instead of a dorm, finds himself afflicted by a mysterious hallucinatory illness with an even stranger home remedy, and is tasked by his wealthy mother to track down the son of a family friend—a charismatic and elusive student rumored to be pursuing “cold fusion.”

As his search leads him through dive bars, bus stations, abandoned churches and other bizarre locales, and he has increasingly disorienting encounters with a variety of eccentrics—including drug dealers and fringe intellectuals—his mental state deteriorates and the boundary between experience and delusion begins to dissolve.

Cold Fusion is a darkly funny fever dream—an absurdist yet poignant examination of the fragile narratives we construct to make sense of an inescapably chaotic world.

The book, Cold Fusion: A Novel [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781668251201 in Hardcover by Paul Grimstad may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.

Details

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Author
Paul Grimstad
Format
Hardcover
Release date
Jan 5, 2027
ISBN-13
9781668251201
ISBN-10
1668251205
Pages
160
Carton quantity
40 copies

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