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The Future Won't Be Long

✍ Scribed by Kobek, Jarett


Book ID
109917739
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2017
Tongue
en-US
Weight
633 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780735222489

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✦ Synopsis


"Hard not to recommend. . . . Full of delightfully cynical aphorisms. . . . At the heart of The Future Won't Be Long is the friendship between Baby and Adeline--at once loving and destructive and convincingly drawn by Kobek." -- Kevin Nguyen, GQ.com
"A swirling, name-dropping, drug-fueled, hypersaturated whirlwind of a novel set against the New York City of the 1980s and '90s, Kobek's latest is a gritty coming-of-age story with quiet heart. . . . An ode to a city--and an era--long gone." --Kirkus Reviews
"Ambitious. . . . Kobek crafts an electric tale, and the wilds of New York City during this intense time period provide a gritty, undeniably magnetic context." --Booklist
A euphoric, provocative novel about friendship, sex, art, clubbing, and ambition set in 1980s and ' 90s New York City, from the author of I Hate the Internet

When Adeline, a wealthy art student, chances upon a...


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