Hachette India

The Imagined Life

Andrew Porter

Key Selling Points:

• A nostalgic, coming-of-age novel set predominantly in California in the 1980s.

• A tender exploration of queer longing, desire, and shame.

• Explores the music and culture of the 80s in America, such as Vinyl, Weed, Fleetwood Mac, and Stevie Nicks.

• The author’s most accomplished work to date, and his first novel in 13 years. (US Knopf Publication Date: 15th April 2025)

Target Readership:

• For fans of Stoner by John Williams, as well as the fiction of Richard Ford, Adam Haslett, Kaveh Akbar and Raymond Carver.

• For lovers of Alan Hollinghurst, and fans of his 2024 novel Our Evenings.

• For readers of high-end literary fiction and fans of split narratives, as well as lovers of Proust and Michelangelo Antonioni.

Andrew Porter

Andrew Porter is the author of the story collections The Disappeared and The Theory of Light and Matter, as well as the novel In Between Days. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has received a James Michener/ Copernicus Fellowship, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in One Story, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, Narrative, and The Southern Review, and his story 'Angelo' has been selected by Celeste Ng to appear in 2025's Best American Short Stories. He teaches fiction writing and directs the creative writing programme at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.