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No Lease on Life (Paperback, Second Edition)
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No Lease on Life (Paperback, Second Edition)
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This book channels the rage, filth, anguish, and the bust-a-gut
hilarity of pre-gentrified New York. The New York of Lynne
Tillman's hilarious, audacious fourth novel is a boiling point of
urban decay. The East Village streets are overrun with crooked
cops, drug addicts, pimps, and prostitutes. Garbage piles up along
the sidewalks amid the blaring soundtrack of car stereos.
Confrontations are supercharged by the summer heat wave. This
merciless noise has left Elizabeth Hall an insomniac. Junkies roam
her building and overturn trashcans, but the landlord refuses to
help clean or repair the decrepit conditions. Live-in boyfriend Roy
is good-natured but too avoidant to soothe the sores of city life.
Though Elizabeth fights for sanity in this apathetic metropolis,
violent fantasies threaten to push her over the edge. In vivid
detail, she begins to imagine murders: those of the "morons" she
despises, and, most obsessively, her own. Frightening, hilarious,
and wholly addictive, No Lease on Life is an avant-garde
sucker-punch, a plea for humanity propelled by dark wit and
unflinching honesty. Tillman's spare prose, frank, poignant and
always illuminating, captures all the raving absurdity of a very
bad day in America's toughest, hottest melting pot.
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Imprint: |
Red Lemonade
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2021 |
First published: |
October 2014 |
Authors: |
Lynne Tillman
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Introduction by: |
Eileen Myles
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Dimensions: |
210 x 153 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
176 |
Edition: |
Second Edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-935869-01-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-935869-01-9 |
Barcode: |
9781935869016 |
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