Ryan Bingham's somewhat bizarre goal is to accumulate a million miles in his frequent flyer account. His life in the air--and specifically the last leg of his world-wide itinerary--is the subject of this very 21st-century novel, in which Ryan is firmly connected to the earth via phone and computer even as he soars above it. A New York Times ...
One of the nation's best observers and interpreters of American life chronicles his own long, strange trip through American education. This is a remarkable book that suggests the first step toward intellectual fulfillment is getting off the treadmill that is the American meritocracy.
Mason LaVerle is a young man on a mission--a mission to America. Raised by a religious sect in a remote Montana town, he leaves home to encounter the contemporary scene in all its bewildering, seductive diversity in this satirical yet moving tale of a stranger in a strange land.
My Hard Bargain was hailed as "an impressive debut" by The Wall Street Journal, and "substantial and down to earth" by the New Yorker. The exalted, memorable characters in Kirn's acclaimed debut short story col lection confront the real hard bargains in life that spring up from the business of simply living, and Kirn transforms these hard-luck ...
A moving and darkly comic first novel by the author of the acclaimed short story collection My Hard Bargain. Weaver and Kim meet for the first time outside a St. Paul, Minnesota, abortion clinic. Kim is 23 and pregnant, with no money to finish college, while Weaver is 26 and a newly devout Bible-carrying member of a protest group. Their encounter ...
When young Justin Cobb is finally cured of his thumbsucking habit, his obsessions change to less benign ones that include sex, drugs, fly-fishing, Mormonism, and Ritalin. This comic novel is set vividly in the world of the 1980s.
"Before AidSat I had no self, no soul. I was a billing address. A credit score. I had a TV, a computer, a phone, a car, an apartment, some furniture, and a health-club locker. Then AidSat hired me and gave me a life. And not just one life. Hundreds of them, thousands. " Kent Selkirk is an operator at AidSat, an omni-present subscriber service ...
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