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Product Identifiers

PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-101501146122

ISBN-139781501146121

eBay Product ID (ePID)25057260683

Product Key Features

Book TitleNo One Left to Come Looking for You : a Novel

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSatire, Literary, Humorous / General

Publication Year2022

GenreFiction

AuthorSam Lipsyte

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight13.5 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-941047

Dewey Edition23/eng/20221202

Reviews"Reading this book is like being duct-taped to a chair with wheels and shoved down a steep hill into eight lanes of oncoming traffic. In other words: MY IDEAL READING EXPERIENCE. But it's more than just the thrills, laughs, and surprises that come with having mad storytelling skills; Sam's affection for his characters--and the unusual ways they express that affection for each other--give it a warped sincerity that really resonates. That's fancy talk for I dug this book big time." --Steven Soderbergh "Another fantastic gem from Sam Lipsyte with his numerous gifts on full display--comedy, heart and heartbreak, effortless prose, wonderful dialogue--all wrapped up in an East Village whodunnit, circa 1993, which gives the novel an aura of the elegiac, a glimpse into the cultural past that also serves as a mirror--or a warning--to the present." --Jonathan Ames, author of A Man Named Doll "I love this book so much. It's a hate-love letter to a bad time, but it's our bad time." --James Murphy

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisA darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 1990s New York City. Manhattan's East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and hard drugs are plentiful. Crime is high but rent is low, luring hopeful, creative kids from sleepy suburbs around the country. One of these is Jack S., a young New Jersey rock musician. Just a few days before his band's biggest gig, their lead singer goes missing with Jack's prized bass, presumably to hock it to feed his junk habit. Jack's search for his buddy uncovers a sinister entanglement of crimes tied to local real estate barons looking to remake New York City--and who might also be connected to the recent death of Jack's punk rock mentor. Along the way, Jack encounters a cast of colorful characters, including a bewitching, quick-witted scenester who favors dressing in a nurse's outfit, a monstrous hired killer with a devotion to both figure skating and edged weapons, a deranged if prophetic postwar novelist, and a tough-talking cop who fancies himself a retro-cool icon of the homicide squad but is harboring a surprising secret. No One Left to Come Looking for You is a page-turning suspense novel that also serves as a love letter to a bygone era of New York City where young artists could still afford to chase their dreams.

LC Classification NumberPS3562.I648N66 2022