Binding: Paperback
Description: " What a debut! Early Work is one of the wittiest wisest (sometimes silliest in the best sense) and bravest novels about wrestling with the early stages of life and love of creative and destructive urges I ve read in a while. The angst of the young and reasonably comfortable isn t always pretty but Andrew Martin possesses the prose magic to make it hilarious illuminating moving." Sam Lipsyte author of The Ask and The Fun Parts For young writers of a certain temperament if they haven t had such notions beaten out of them by MF a programs and the Internet the delusion persists that great writing must be sought in what W. B. Yeats once called the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. That's where Peter Cunningham has been looking for inspiration for his novel that is when he isn t teaching at the local women's prison walking his dog getting high and wondering whether it's time to tie the knot with his college girlfriend a medical student whose night shifts have become a standing rebuke to his own lack of direction. When Peter meets Leslie a sexual adventurer taking a break from her fianc he gets a glimpse of what he wishes and imagines himself to be: a writer of talent and nerve. Her rag - and - bone shop may be as squalid as his own but at least she knows her way around the shelves. Over the course of a Virginia summer their charged increasingly intimate friendship opens the door to difficult questions about love and literary ambition. With a keen irony reminiscent of Sam Lipsyte or Lorrie Moore and a romantic streak as wide as Roberto Bola o's Andrew Martin's Early Work marks the debut of a writer as funny and attentive as any novelist of his generation. Beautifully executed and very funny Early Work is a sharp - eyed sharp - voiced debut that I didn t want to put down. Julia Pierpont author of Among the Ten Thousand Things and The Little Book of Feminist Saints
Title: Early Work A Novel
Author(s): Martin Andrew
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250215017
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/9/2019
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction