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Thirlwell, Adam
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Fiction
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2015
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Random House
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English
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Lurid & Cute
โ Scribed by Thirlwell, Adam
- Book ID
- 108378411
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 282 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780374292256
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โฆ Synopsis
A dreamy and adrenaline-fueled new novel from a two-time Granta Best Young Novelist
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Lurid & Cute_ is a kind of machine for the reader's corruption. It opens with all the things we've come to expect of Adam Thirlwell--"the playfulness of language, the way the mandarin wit, line by line, consorts with grisly or louche material," as Jeffrey Eugenides has said--when the narrator wakes confused in a seedy hotel room. He has had the good education, and also the good job. Together with his wife and dog, he lives at home with his parents. But then the lurid overtakes him--a chain of events that feels to those inside it narcotic and neurotic, like one long and terrible descent: complete with lies, deceit, and chicanery, and including, in escalating order, one orgy, one brothel, and a series of firearms disputes.
Lurid & Cute balances the complexity of an interior world--our hero's apparently innocent...
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