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Lurid & Cute

Lurid & Cute

Thirlwell, Adam

Paperback

HumorLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $25.99

ISBN10: 1250081661
ISBN13: 9781250081667
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Apr 12 2016
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

The narrator of [Lurid & Cute] may be Thirlwell's best creation yet.--Andrew Ervin, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

Lurid & Cute is a simple story of mayhem and ennui, almost a caper, but told with such satisfying ironies and verbal dexterity that everything is Technicolor again. So alive, so inventive, so very good.--Joshua Ferris

Lurid & Cute takes place in the suburbs of a giant city, where our narrator lives at home with his parents, together with his wife and dog. He has had a good education and, until recently, a good job. But then the lurid overtakes him--and whether this transformation is caused by our hero's present unemployment, or his feelings for a girl who is not his wife, or the return of his old friend Hiro, it's hard to say. What's definite is that it sets off a chain of events that feels, to those inside it, narcotic and neurotic, like one long and terrible descent--complete with lies, deceit, and chicanery: one orgy, one brothel, and a series of firearms disputes.

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