Want Not (Paperback)

A "New York Times" Notable Book
"A wonderful book, and there's no one I would not urge to read it . . . This is the work of a fluid, confident and profoundly talented writer who gets more fluid, more confident and seemingly more talented even within the book itself." --Dave Eggers, "New York Times Book Review"
A highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times, Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair--a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father's losing battle with Alzheimer's; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate, whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included.
Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something, anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly, randomly, yet irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned.
"Shrewd, funny, and sometimes devastating . . . What "Want Not" does best, though, isn't plotting but portraits of humanity: the small epiphanies and private hurts of every person whose life, like the detritus they produce, is as beautifully mundane and unique as a fingerprint." --"Entertainment Weekly"
"An impassioned work of fiction." --"Dallas Morning News"

General

Imprint:	HarperPerennial
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2014
First published:	May 2014
Authors:	Jonathan Miles
Dimensions:	201 x 132 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-0-544-22808-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-544-22808-1
Barcode:	9780544228085

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