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The Bend of the World: A Novel
Jacob Bacharach
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Description for The Bend of the World: A Novel
paperback. Bacharach has a great comic voice shrewd, deadpan, and dirty and The Bend of the World fears no weirdness. Sam Lipsyte" Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
“Mighty strange doings” mark the Pittsburgh of Jacob Bacharach’s audacious and hilarious debut novel, a town where “yeti, UFOs, rumors of orgiastic rites, intimations of the Mayan apocalypse and ‘psycho-temporal distortions’ add that extra zing to the bustling night life” (James Wolcott). On the edge of thirty, and comfortably adrift in life, Peter Morrison finds his personal and professional life taking a turn for the weird as his attempts to transition into adulthood are thwarted by conspiracies both real and imagined. In this madcap coming-of-age novel, where no one quite comes of age, Bacharach brings an “immensely entertaining” and “Vonnegut-like ... Read more
“Mighty strange doings” mark the Pittsburgh of Jacob Bacharach’s audacious and hilarious debut novel, a town where “yeti, UFOs, rumors of orgiastic rites, intimations of the Mayan apocalypse and ‘psycho-temporal distortions’ add that extra zing to the bustling night life” (James Wolcott). On the edge of thirty, and comfortably adrift in life, Peter Morrison finds his personal and professional life taking a turn for the weird as his attempts to transition into adulthood are thwarted by conspiracies both real and imagined. In this madcap coming-of-age novel, where no one quite comes of age, Bacharach brings an “immensely entertaining” and “Vonnegut-like ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Liveright United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781631490002
SKU
V9781631490002
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Ref
99-15
About Jacob Bacharach
Jacob Bacharach is the author of The Bend of the World and The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates. His writing has appeared in the New Republic and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Reviews for The Bend of the World: A Novel
"Ever wonder what would happen if The Mysteries of Pittsburgh were mugged in a dark alley by a cocaine-addicted Sasquatch? Well, wonder no more. Just buy this book and enjoy."
Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story