The Made-Up Man

✍ Scribed by Scapellato, Joseph

• Book ID: 110487029
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 725 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780374716547

✦ Synopsis

Existential noir meets absurd comedy when a young man reluctantly enlists as source material for an art project

Stanley had known it was a mistake to accept his uncle Lech's offer to apartment-sit in Prague—he'd known it was one of Lech's proposals, a thinly veiled setup for some invasive, potentially dangerous performance art project. But whatever Lech had planned for Stanley, it would get him to Prague and maybe offer a chance to make things right with T after his failed attempt to propose.

Stanley can take it. He can ignore their high jinks, resist being drafted into their evolving, darkening script. As the operation unfolds it becomes clear there's more to this performance than he expected; they know more about Stanley's state of mind than he knows himself. He may be able to step over chalk outlines in the hallway, may be able to turn away from a woman who looks like his mother arguing with a man who looks like his father, but when a man...