{"product_id":"early-work-paperback","title":"Early Work - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Martin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat a debut  \u003ci\u003eEarly Work\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the wittiest, wisest (sometimes silliest, in the best sense), and bravest novels about wrestling with the early stages of life and love, of creative and destructive urges, I've read in a while. The angst of the young and reasonably comfortable isn't always pretty, but Andrew Martin possesses the prose magic to make it hilarious, illuminating, moving. --Sam Lipsyte, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ask\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Fun Parts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor young writers of a certain temperament--if they haven't had such notions beaten out of them by MFA programs and the Internet--the delusion persists that great writing must be sought in what W. B. Yeats once called the \"foul rag and bone shop of the heart.\" That's where Peter Cunningham has been looking for inspiration for his novel--that is, when he isn't teaching at the local women's prison, walking his dog, getting high, and wondering whether it's time to tie the knot with his college girlfriend, a medical student whose night shifts have become a standing rebuke to his own lack of direction. When Peter meets Leslie, a sexual adventurer taking a break from her fianc , he gets a glimpse of what he wishes and imagines himself to be: a writer of talent and nerve. Her rag-and-bone shop may be as squalid as his own, but at least she knows her way around the shelves. Over the course of a Virginia summer, their charged, increasingly intimate friendship opens the door to difficult questions about love and literary ambition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a keen irony reminiscent of Sam Lipsyte or Lorrie Moore, and a romantic streak as wide as Roberto Bola o's, Andrew Martin's \u003ci\u003eEarly Work\u003c\/i\u003e marks the debut of a writer as funny and attentive as any novelist of his generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Beautifully executed and very funny, Early Work is a sharp-eyed, sharp-voiced debut that I didn't want to put down.\" --Julia Pierpont, author of \u003ci\u003eAmong the Ten Thousand Things\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Little Book of Feminist Saints\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANDREW MARTIN's\u003c\/b\u003e stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZyzzyva\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and his non-fiction has been published by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. He has received fellowships from the UCross Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. \u003ci\u003eEarly Work\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 09, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701914800191,"sku":"9781250215017","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/8a2cfb490dfadfe3001fe7eff4244bc6.webp?v=1765022451","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/early-work-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}