Quicksand
(eAudiobook)
A daring, brilliant new novel from Man Booker Prize finalist Steve Toltz, for fans of Dave Eggers, Martin Amis, and David Foster Wallace: a fearlessly funny, outrageously inventive dark comedy about two lifelong friends. Liam is a struggling writer and a failing cop. Aldo, his best friend and muse, is a haplessly criminal entrepreneur with an uncanny knack for disaster. As Aldo's luck worsens, Liam is inspired to base his next book on his best friend's exponential misfortunes and hopeless quest to win back his one great love: his ex-wife, Stella. What begins as an attempt to make sense of Aldo's mishaps spirals into a profound story of faith and friendship. With the same originality and buoyancy that catapulted his first novel, A Fraction of the Whole, onto prize lists around the world-including shortlists for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award-Steve Toltz has created a rousing, hysterically funny but unapologetically dark satire about fate, faith, friendship, and the artist's obligation to his muse. Sharp, witty, kinetic, and utterly engrossing, Quicksand is a subversive portrait of twenty-first-century society in all its hypocrisy and absurdity.
Notes
Toltz, S., & Davey, J. (2015). Quicksand. Unabridged. [United States], Simon & Schuster Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Toltz, Steve and Joel, Davey. 2015. Quicksand. [United States], Simon & Schuster Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Toltz, Steve and Joel, Davey, Quicksand. [United States], Simon & Schuster Audio, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Toltz, Steve, and Joel Davey. Quicksand. Unabridged. [United States], Simon & Schuster Audio, 2015.
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