Last Resort

- Reviews -

If Less by Andrew Sean Greer left a hole in your life, good news: Last Resort will fill it. Fast and funny, it feels like a backstage pass to the book world. * Meg Mason, author of SORROW AND BLISS * A brilliant take on what it means to be an artist in a world of endless compromises. Look out, Faust, there' s a new sheriff in town. * Gary Shteyngart, author of SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY and LAKE SUCCESS * If there' s nothing new under the sun, can anyone be original without lying? Would truth still be stranger than fiction if people were honest in real life? This fast-paced simulacrum of a commercial novel is not out to please the critics. I finished it in a day. * Nell Zink, author of DOXOLOGY * Last Resort is a strange and beguiling book about the contrivances, connivances and mysteries of creation, with an especially visceral depiction of male anxiety and an absolutely blistering end. A terrific debut. * Joshua Ferris, author of THEN WE CAME TO THE END * With its seductive, chilled intelligence and frictionless style, Last Resort plunged me summarily into a one-sitting read. I came up for air awed by this sophisticated, high-stakes moral drama. * Hermione Hoby, author of NEON IN DAYLIGHT * Lipstein asks the timely question: does one possess sole title to one' s own story? A sharply written, headlong romp. * Lionel Shriver, author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN * A darkly comical thriller about writers and publishers, emulation and betrayal, written in an excitingly careful, clear, and original prose style. * Tao Lin, author of LEAVE SOCIETY * Last Resort is witty, profound and blisteringly intelligent. Andrew Lipstein asks major questions about ambition and authenticity and artistic ethics, while keeping me frantically turning the pages to see what happens next. A fantastic, fast-paced and deeply funny novel. * Molly Antopol, author of THE UNAMERICANS * A delightfully nightmarish satirical chronicle of one young author' s reckoning with the consequences of his own blind ambition. Caleb' s journey had me cringing with pure pleasure. * Antoine Wilson, author of MOUTH TO MOUTH and PANORAMA CITY * Last Resort is a witty, propulsive and often mesmerizing novel, a kind of creative-class thriller, full of wry social observation and subtle emotional textures, and it builds beautifully toward a bracing showdown between knowingness and self-knowledge. With its insular milieu and quality lit namechecks, not to mention its quasi-satirical anxiety of auto-fictional influence, Andrew Lipstein plays a risky game, and he plays it superbly, with feeling. * Sam Lipsyte, author of HARK * Authenticity and possession of stories are the surface themes of Last Resort, but it is really about ambition and emptiness, about a callow young man with nothing to say self-destructively looking for shortcuts in literature and life. But the great irony is that Andrew Lipstein' s impeccably written debut has quite a lot to say, and, as with the best comic novels, his semi-hero' s misadventures have an undertow of real sadness. * Teddy Wayne * Last Resort raises incisive questions about authorship, the tension between art and commerce, and the elusive nature of self-fulfillment, all while unspooling a compelling story with humor and great suspense. I didn' t want it to end. * Julia Pierpont, author of AMONG THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS * A darkly comical thriller about editors and agents, friends and acquaintances, lovers and strangers, written in an excitingly careful, attentive, and original prose style. * Tao Lin, author of LEAVE SOCIETY *

- Author Bio -

ANDREW LIPSTEIN is a writer based in Brooklyn. He works on the product design team at Kabbage, a fintech startup, and was previously at Meural, an art tech startup. He founded and runs 0s&1s, a digital bookstore featuring interviews, and co-founded The Neu Jorker and Paul Ryan magazine. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, VICE, McSweeney' s, The Rumpus, Electric Literature and more. He graduated from Haverford College with a bachelor' s degree in mathematics. LAST RESORT is his debut novel.

- Full Details -

Status:	No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13:	9781250863034
Published:	17 Jan 2023
Published In:
Imprint:	Picador USA
Publisher:	Picador USA
Format:	Paperback
Height:	210mm
Width:	137mm
Spine:	25mm
Weight:	454g
Pages:	304

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