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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Friendship
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- N/A
- Inscribed
- No
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Book
- Unit Type
- Unit
- Era
- 2000s
- Personalized
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Unit Quantity
- 1
- ISBN
- 9781416564270
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1416564276
ISBN-13
9781416564270
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63861015
Product Key Features
Book Title
Unprofessionals : a Novel
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Psychological, General, Humorous / General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-023657
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Julie Hecht sees the horribleness and beauty of our everyday lives better than anyone else, and her humor is deadpan, wild, and sibylline. The Unprofessionals kept me reading avidly right to its last word." -- Ian Frazier, "Reminiscent of the gossamer mind-spinning, and lethal detonation, of 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish.'...Many beautifully contoured reflections...a narrator endowed with every conceivable sensitivity and a passionate spirit." -- The New York Times Book Review, "An authentic, witty, and uncustomary voice -- a sharp-eyed and funny revelation of privilege and pain." -- Alice Munro, "Reminiscent of the gossamer mind-spinning, and lethal detonation, of 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish.'...Many beautifully contoured reflections...a narrator endowed with every conceivable sensitivity and a passionate spirit."-- The New York Times Book Review, "Julie Hecht sees the horribleness and beauty of our everyday lives better than anyone else, and her humor is deadpan, wild, and sibylline. The Unprofessionals kept me reading avidly right to its last word."-- Ian Frazier, "An authentic, witty, and uncustomary voice -- a sharp-eyed and funny revelation of privilege and pain."-- Alice Munro, "Julie Hecht sees the horribleness and beauty of our everyday lives better than anyone else, and her humor is deadpan, wild, and sibylline.The Unprofessionalskept me reading avidly right to its last word."-- Ian Frazier, "Reminiscent of the gossamer mind-spinning, and lethal detonation, of 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish.'...Many beautifully contoured reflections...a narrator endowed with every conceivable sensitivity and a passionate spirit."--The New York Times Book Review
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Table Of Content
An Evening in Winter The Beauty Room The Surprise Phone Call Jobs of Youth Yoga-Ball Night Last August The Boyhood Phone Stories The Denial The Evidence The Missed Boat Skin Talk The Year of Rehabilitation Back to New York Tea Party The Blank Space The Bourgeois Blues Days of Late Spring Drugs Prescribed by an Addict The Short Phone Calls of June The Point of Life The Birthday Weekend The Birthday The Two Things The Demon The Phone Message Etiquette Course After the Phone Message How Did This Happen? Not Elvis Presley The Same Kitchen in Nantucket The Nihilist Chefs Yoga for the Hands The Way Life Is After the Summer The Red Room Holy Night Return to the Waxer-Electrologist Faces of Pets
Synopsis
There is no American writer alive who is funnier, more inquisitive, or more surprising than Julie Hecht. The Unprofessionals, her first novel, whose narrator also told the stories in the author's bestselling collection Do the Windows Open?, is a triumph of tragicomedy. The book follows the odd friendship between the narrator -- a photographer in her late forties -- and a precocious raconteur, identified only as The Boy, whom she has known since his childhood. As the narrator and the young man regale each other with tales of the way Americans live now, she is also telling the story of his path to heroin addiction and his many attempts to recover. The Unprofessionals is a masterpiece of comic despair, illuminating our bewildering century, and a hilarious and sad story of two outsiders who see the world with painful clarity -- and as a whole, a novel of unexampled originality.
LC Classification Number
PS3558.E29U57 2008
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