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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jonathan DeePublisher: Little, Brown Book Group Imprint: Corsair Dimensions: Width: 12.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 19.60cm Weight: 0.310kg ISBN: 9781472151957ISBN 10: 147215195 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 15 November 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews"The American novelist who has his finger on the pulse - Mark Lawson Dee's gifts are often dazzling and his material meticulously shaped. . . . [He] articulates complex emotional dynamics with precision and insight. - The New York Times Book Review on A Thousand Pardons ""'A palpable contract between the very rich and the people who distrust them the least,' Joan Didion once said of the Getty Villa. Jonathan Dee understands this impossible, enduring contract, sometimes called populism-other times, theft-as well as Didion does. The Locals might be the first great Occupy novel of the twenty-first century."" - Rachel Kushner, New York Times bestselling author of The Flamethrowers ""There could not be a more timely novel than The Locals. It examines the American self and American selfishness from 9/11 until today. Jonathan Dee has given us a master class in empathy and compassion, a vital book."" - Nathan Hill, author of The Nix ""Jonathan Dee's manner is so forthright, his approach so quietly intelligent and direct, his small-town America with its dreams and ambitions and sense of order and rectitude so familiar, we realize we have acknowledged nothing particularly alarming about our weakening grasp on a functioning democracy. Hiding in plain sight is the blueprint of our decline-our easy corruptibility and willed ignorance, our ethical wobbliness and eagerness to sanitize history. The Locals is an absolutely riveting novel that dares to prod us awake. Whoever has ears let them hear-indeed."" - Joy Williams, author of The Visiting Privilege ""In this moving study of how the housing bubble's burst sets a small town's citizens against each other, Jonathan Dee tells a must-read story for our age. Class struggle, tyranny, America's disillusionment after 9/11-The Locals creates a delicately drawn world impossible to forget."" - Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of The Liar s Club and Lit Slick, observant and often amusing - the Times" A compassionate look at the American middle class and what is happening to it and the ways, right and wrong, in which it is responding. * George Saunders, Best Books of 2017 * Author InformationJonathan Dee is the author of seven novels, including The Locals, A Thousand Pardons, and The Privileges, which was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, he teaches in the graduate writing program at Syracuse University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |