Name: Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind par Molly McGhee
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Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind Résumé

Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind Molly McGhee

'Trippy, incisive and riotously funny' Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine 'A wonder ... Precision, humour, heart, this is a stunner' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, bestselling author of Chain-Gang All-Stars 'An original mind brimming over with invention' Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet

An original and darkly funny debut novel about work, debt and how we live now, from a thrilling new voice in fiction.

Jonathan Abernathy is a loser. Unemployed and behind on his student loan repayments, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt.

When a secretive government loan forgiveness programme offers him a job he can literally do in his sleep, Abernathy thinks he's found his big break. Hired as a dream auditor, he finds himself entering the dreams of white-collar workers to flag their anxieties for removal at night so they'll be more productive in the day. If Abernathy can at least appear competent, might he have a chance at a new life?

As Abernathy tries to find his footing in this new gig, reality and morality begin to warp around him. Soon, the lines between life and work, right and wrong, and even sleep and consciousness, have blurred and Abernathy begins to wonder just what he might have signed away...

Wildly imaginative, laced with black humour and full of close-to-the-bone truths, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is the cult workplace novel that's like nothing else you've read before.

'An insightfully nightmarish parable of the pervasive ravages of debt ... Stone-cold chilling' Halle Butler, author of The New Me

'An exuberant, poignant, freewheeling debut full of complication and surprise ... very funny' Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation

'Jonathan Abernathy makes a case for generosity, for the surplus of everyday life, the kind of savings that cannot be bought or sold ... Debt can take on a life of it's own, but when it's really good - like Jonathan Abernathy - so can art' Electric Lit

'The spiritual sibling of Severance, but creepier' Literary Hub

'Surrealist ... A scathing critique of capitalism' Time

'Funny, freaky, intellectually bold and always from the heart' Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

'Welcome to the somnambulatory prose of Molly McGhee, where vivid nightmares and lucid tender dreams live side by side ... A revelation' Hilary Leichter, author of Temporary

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'Fearlessly inventive and exquisitely poised ... trippy, incisive, and, most importantly, riotously funny' Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

'Here's an original mind brimming over with invention and comic ferocity' Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet

'Molly McGhee's luminary imagination makes this debut a wonder. Precision, humor, heart, this is a stunner' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars

'[An] insightfully nightmarish parable of the pervasive ravages of debt ... stone cold chilling' Halle Butler, author of The New Me

'An exuberant, poignant, freewheeling debut ... very funny' Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation

'Funny, freaky, intellectually bold and always from the heart' Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

'Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is a revelation ... There's nothing like it, awake or asleep or anywhere in between' Hilary Leichter, author of Temporary

'Lively, vacillating between humor and heartbreak at breakneck speeds, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is the rare novel that truly feels like it could've only been written by a single brilliant mind' Jean Kyoung Frazier author of Pizza Girl

'A deeply humane novel ... McGhee is a marvellous chronicler of the fantastic, the perverse, and the sublime' Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog

'Gripping ... Debt can take on a life of it's own, but when it's really good - like Jonathan Abernathy - so can art' Electric Lit

'The spiritual sibling of Severance, but creepier' Literary Hub

'Surrealist ... A scathing critique of capitalism' Time

'A brutal examination of the psychological pressures and ethical complexity required to survive under late capitalism ... Upton Sinclair meets modern workplace satire - with a lot of heart' Kirkus

À propos de Molly McGhee

Molly McGhee is from a cluster of unincorporated towns outside of Nashville, Tennessee. She completed her M.F.A. in fiction at Columbia University, where, in addition to receiving a Chair's Fellowship, she taught in the undergraduate creative writing department. She has worked in the editorial departments of McSweeney's, The Believer, NOON, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Currently living in Brooklyn, her work has appeared in The Paris Review.

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Sku

GOR013615106

ISBN 13

9780008589134

ISBN 10

0008589135

Titre

Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind Molly McGhee

Auteur

Molly McGhee

État

Occasion - Comme neuf

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Éditeur

HarperCollins Publishers

Année de publication

2024-02-01

Nombre de pages

368

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N/A

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