Pay as you go : a fable /
New to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead, he's landed in a creaking, stuffy apartment with two roommates, a loping giant who hardly leaves his room and a weight-obsessed neurotic who keeps...
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| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
McSweeney's,
[2023].
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| Summary: | New to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead, he's landed in a creaking, stuffy apartment with two roommates, a loping giant who hardly leaves his room and a weight-obsessed neurotic who keeps no fewer than forty-seven lamps throughout the house, blazing at all hours. Unwilling to accept this fate, Slide, a barber with an opaque past, embarks on a quest for the perfect apartment, pinballing through the sprawling, madcap city of Polis and its endless procession of neighborhoods. As he bounces from foldout couch to disaster-relief tent, falling in with some tough types, Slide begins to realize that he's going to have to scratch and claw just to claim a place for himself in this world, let alone a place with in-unit laundry. |
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| Physical Description: | 500 pages : illustration ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 195211974X 9781952119743 |