The Normals - Couverture souple

Gilbert, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571196543 ISBN 13 : 9780571196548

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2005

Synopsis

Twenty-eight-year-old Harvard-educated Billy Schine finds himself suddenly without prospects - a balled-up bit of litter riding the boom of New York in the nineties. His classmates make millions on Wall Street and the Internet while Billy must make do with a series of temp jobs. He has a girlfriend, Sally Hu, but they are a couple only by default. Then Billy receives a letter from a collection agency, seeking satisfaction on three years of unpaid student loans. Death is mentioned as an alternative to payment. Now every passer-by is a potential hit-man, and Billy has to flee. Providence delivers Hargrove Anderson Medical, a pharmaceutical company looking for perfectly healthy 'normals' to participate in Phase I studies of their latest experimental drugs. So Billy signs up for a fourteen-day trial of a new atypical anti-psychotic for the treatment of schizophrenia . . .

Through the sharp-eyed, self-doubting Billy, David Gilbert exposes the crisis of the contemporary human condition: how to connect? As funny as it is profound, The Normals is a tour de force.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Gilbert is the author of the short story collection Remote Feed. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, GQ and Bomb. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571196543
• ISBN 13: 9780571196548
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible