FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 30, 2007
PMA PLACES TWO NEW NOVELS
BY JAMES BOICE WITH SCRIBNER
Kelly Skillen of PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc. announces the sale of North American Rights to NoVA, the second novel by James Boice, along with a third novel tentatively called Junior, again to Brant Rumble of Scribner. PMA manages Foreign, Film and Audio Rights to both titles.
As NoVA opens, Grayson Donald, seventeen years old, has just hung himself from a basketball hoop next to a playground in Centreville, North Virginia. The question is, why? In this semi-autobiographical dissection of the author's hometown, Boice scratches its shiny suburban surface to reveal a place formed from "a cloud that slid west and met with the humidity and spent buck shot cartridges and Civil War bones to create concrete and vinyl siding and front yards laid in chunks, child care centers and video rental places." In both passing glimpses and intimate interior monologues, we come to know Grayson's family, his fellow students, those who knew him only slightly...and a portrait of a town emerges that renders Grayson's suicide both devastating and inevitable.
Junior is part mob epic, part dystopian fantasy, in which Death and Bob Dylan play pivotal roles in a chilling vision of the future that says a lot about the present. The novel unfolds in a world that has been broken apart by nuclear war and remade; it is much like our current world, except a little worse. Junior Alvarez grows up in abject poverty, no different than most boys in the South Boston housing projects, until the specter of Death climbs out of his dreams and literally bites him on the ass. The novel follows his transformation into the most ferocious criminal of his time, deconstructing just about every Mafia legend in the process, and serving up a cold splash of social commentary that speaks directly to our post-911 sensibilities..
James Boice is the author of MVP, a dark literary account of a fictional basketball phenomenon and accused murderer. Publisher's Weekly writes: "With its bristling intelligence and crystalline prose, this provocative novel secures Boice's status as a player to watch." James is also a frequent contributor to Esquire magazine. He resides near Boston, Massachusetts.
For more information, contact Kelly Skillen and Peter Miller of PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc. at 212.929.1222,
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