It is 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard, newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Britain, is not looking forward to a Continental trip with his older brother, Rod. Rod was too vain to celebrate being fifty so instead takes his entire family on '
The Future Won't Be Long
β Scribed by Kobek, Jarett
- Book ID
- 109917739
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 633 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780735222489
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ 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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