Bad Teeth: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Long, Dustin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 054426200X ISBN 13 : 9780544262003

Editeur : New Harvest, 2014

Synopsis

Four interlocking narratives set in four American cities form a richly comic feast about love, academia, an elusive Tibetan novelist—and SOFA, a protest group so mysterious its very initials are open to interpretation.

Bad Teeth follows a cast of young literary men and women, each in a period of formation, in four very American cities—Brooklyn, Bloomington, Berkeley, and Bakersfield. A Pynchonesque treat, it’s four (or more) books in one: a bohemian satire, a campus comedy, a stoner’s reverie, and a quadruple love story. The plots coalesce around the search for a mysterious author, Jigme Drolma (“the Tibetan David Foster Wallace”), who might in fact be a plagiarist. But how does the self-styled arch-magician Nicholas Bendix figure into this? What will happen when SOFA unleashes the “Apocalypse”? And what’s to become of Lump, the cat?

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Four interlocking narratives set in four American cities form a richly comic feast about love, academia, an elusive Tibetan novelist—and SOFA, a protest group so mysterious its very initials are open to interpretation.

Bad Teeth follows a cast of young literary men and women, each in a period of formation, in four very American cities—Brooklyn, Bloomington, Berkeley, and Bakersfield. A Pynchonesque treat, it’s four (or more) books in one: a bohemian satire, a campus comedy, a stoner’s reverie, and a quadruple love story. The plots coalesce around the search for a mysterious author, Jigme Drolma (“the Tibetan David Foster Wallace”), who might in fact be a plagiarist. But how does the self-styled arch-magician Nicholas Bendix figure into this? What will happen when SOFA unleashes the “Apocalypse”? And what’s to become of Lump, the cat?

Revue de presse

Praise for Dustin Long and ICELANDER:

"A giddy send-up of postmodern fiction...endearingly wacky." —Laura Miller, Salon.com

"A kind of Series of Unfortunate Events for adults...It is writing born out of hysterical laughter and a lingering sense of childhood adventure." —Los Angeles Times

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Harvest
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 054426200X
• ISBN 13: 9780544262003
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible