Steve Toltz

Quicksand

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fearlessly funny, outrageously inventive dark comedy about two lifelong friends is ?a delightful literary novel...extraordinarily imaginative? (Psychology Today) from Man Booker Prize finalist Steve Toltz?for fans of Dave Eggers, Martin Amis, and David Foster Wallace. Liam is a struggling writer and a failing cop. Aldo, his best friend and muse, is a haplessly criminal entrepreneur with an uncanny knack for disaster. As Aldo's luck worsens, Liam is inspired to base his next book on his best friend's exponential misfortunes and hopeless quest to win back his one great love: his ex-wife, Stella. What begins as an attempt to make sense of Aldo's mishaps spirals into a profound story of faith and friendship. ?Steve Toltz channels a poet's delight in crafting the perfect phrase on every highly quotable page? (Publishers Weekly). With the same originality, brilliance, and buoyancy that catapulted his first novel, A Fraction of the Whole, onto prize lists around the world, Toltz has created a rousing, hysterically funny but unapologetically dark satire about love, faith, friendship, and the artist's obligation to his muse. Quicksand is a subversive portrait of twenty-first-century society in all its hypocrisy and absurdity that ?confounds and astonishes in equal measure, often on the same page...A tour de force? (Australian Book Review).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 139mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781476797830
• ISBN-10: 1476797838
• Artikelnr.: 44158505

Autorenporträt

Steve Toltz's first novel, A Fraction of the Whole, was released in 2008 to widespread critical acclaim, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. Prior to his literary career, he lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New York, Barcelona, and Paris, variously working as a cameraman, telemarketer, security guard, private investigator, English teacher, and screenwriter. Born in Sydney, he currently lives in New York.

Rezensionen

The energy, the hairpin turns, the narrative crashes, the stomach churning ascents and trashed taboos: what a joy to surrender oneself to a writer of such prodigious talent. Peter Carey, twice Man Booker Prize-winner