After being washed overboard from an ocean liner, fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne, spoiled son of a millionaire, is rescued by New England fishermen who put him to work on their boat.

"Now a New Directions book, the legendary novel that is 'equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett' (New York Times Book Review) Malina invites the reader on a linguistic journey, into a world that stretches the very limits of language with Wittgensteinian zeal and Joycean inventiveness, where Ingeborg Bachmann ventriloquizes?and in the process demolishes?Proust, Musil, and Balzac, and yet filters everything through her own utterly singular...

High Noon Neptune is a powerful poetry collection that delves into important issues of loss, love, class, and capitalism. Throughout this book, the reader is taken on a journey of survival, where the intersections of identity and oppression are explored with clarity and reverence. The poems shed light on the complexities of living in a society that is rife with discrimination and inequality, and the battles that individuals face to survive within...