Lurid & cute /
The narrator 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 a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2015.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | The narrator 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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Great Britain : Jonathan Cape, 2015. |
| Physical Description: | 358 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780374292256 (hbk.) 0374292256 (hbk.) |