Important Things That Don't Matter - A Novel

Zusatztext "This book is a complete winner. Smart! charming! fresh! compelling--Amsden is a writer with enormous talent." Informationen zum Autor While a student in New York, David Amsden worked at the New Yorker and New York magazine , where he is now a contributing writer. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is at work on another novel. Klappentext So Dad's around lately. That's it. And I want to tell you things, throw fragments your way that I barely understand. Because it's just funny, flat out, the way someone you don't even know can get up in your face, tweak things that should be so ordinary. Or I think it's funny. Maybe you will too. Hailed by The New Yorker as "a fictional report from the strip-mall front lines of Generation Y," Important Things That Don't Matter is a provocative, moving, darkly funny portrait of family and divorce, a boy and his father, the eighties and nineties, and sex and intimacy that raises vital questions about a generation just now reaching adulthood. Zusammenfassung So Dad's around lately. That's it. And I want to tell you things! throw fragments your way that I barely understand. Because it's just funny! flat out! the way someone you don't even know can get up in your face! tweak things that should be so ordinary. Or I think it's funny. Maybe you will too. Hailed by The New Yorker as "a fictional report from the strip-mall front lines of Generation Y!" Important Things That Don't Matter is a provocative! moving! darkly funny portrait of family and divorce! a boy and his father! the eighties and nineties! and sex and intimacy that raises vital questions about a generation just now reaching adulthood.

Product details

• Authors: David Amsden
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2004
• EAN: 9780060513894
• ISBN: 978-0-06-051389-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: General, DRAMA: Women Authors, FICTION: Family Life / Siblings, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Satire, FICTION: Humorous / Black Humor, FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century, fiction;gift;best;stuffer;novel;club;2003;2004;2005, FICTION: World Literature / Central America, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century