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Want Not (Paperback)
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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"
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Imprint: |
HarperPerennial
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2014 |
First published: |
May 2014 |
Authors: |
Jonathan Miles
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Dimensions: |
201 x 132 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
400 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-544-22808-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-544-22808-1 |
Barcode: |
9780544228085 |
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