Tell your friends about this item:
The Year of Endless Sorrows: a Novel 1st edition
Adam Rapp
The Year of Endless Sorrows: a Novel 1st edition
Adam Rapp
New York City, the early 1990s: the recession is in full swing and young people are squatting in abandoned buildings in the East Village while the homeless riot in Tompkins Square Park. The Internet is not part of daily life; the term "dot-com" has yet to be coined; and people's financial bubbles are burst for an entirely different set of reasons. What can all this mean for a young Midwestern man flush with promise, toiling at a thankless, poverty-wage job in corporate America, and hard at work on his first novel about acute knee pain and the end of the world?
With The Year of Endless Sorrows, acclaimed playwright and finalist for the 2003 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Adam Rapp brings readers a hilarious picaresque reminiscent of Nick Hornby, Douglas Copeland, and Rick Moody at their best--a chronicle of the joys of love, the horrors of sex, the burden of roommates, and the rude discovery that despite your best efforts, life may not unfold as you had once planned.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 26, 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9780374293437 |
Publishers | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 405 |
Dimensions | 140 × 213 × 32 mm · 376 g |
Language | English |
More by Adam Rapp
See all of Adam Rapp ( e.g. Paperback Book , Hardcover Book , CD , Book and MISC )