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Important Things That Don't Matter by Amsden, David
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"Absorbing...a daring narrative that resonates with the heartbreaking emotion that lurks between Amsden's sharply written lines."--BookPage
"This book is a complete winner. Smart, charming, fresh, compelling--Amsden is a writer with enormous talent."--Bill Buford, author of Among the Thugs
"There are moments of literary brilliance in this story that will dazzle the reader."--John Searles, author of Boy Still Missing
"The narrator's voice is a likable mixture of bewilderment and tentative black humor...well cast and darkly ironic."--Publishers Weekly
"David Amsden is an invigorating, original, and sickeningly talented writer."--Augusten Burroughs, author of Running With Scissors
"The novel's so real and personal it's like being in this Gen Y kid's skin for 15 formative years."--Entertainment Weekly
"Conversational and tough, the novel's observant narrator is bound to captivate readers."--Booklist
"Nothing short of phenomenal!"--Nick Fowler, author of A Thing (Or Two) About Curtis and Camilla
"Really, really great...close-to-the-nerve honesty, severe suffering, intertwined with that leavening cynical humor."--J.T. Leroy, author of Sarah
"Hypnotically engaging and almost painfully genuine...an extremely talented writer."--Salon
About the Author:
"This book is a complete winner. Smart, charming, fresh, compelling--Amsden is a writer with enormous talent."--Bill Buford, author of Among the Thugs
"There are moments of literary brilliance in this story that will dazzle the reader."--John Searles, author of Boy Still Missing
"The narrator's voice is a likable mixture of bewilderment and tentative black humor...well cast and darkly ironic."--Publishers Weekly
"David Amsden is an invigorating, original, and sickeningly talented writer."--Augusten Burroughs, author of Running With Scissors
"The novel's so real and personal it's like being in this Gen Y kid's skin for 15 formative years."--Entertainment Weekly
"Conversational and tough, the novel's observant narrator is bound to captivate readers."--Booklist
"Nothing short of phenomenal!"--Nick Fowler, author of A Thing (Or Two) About Curtis and Camilla
"Really, really great...close-to-the-nerve honesty, severe suffering, intertwined with that leavening cynical humor."--J.T. Leroy, author of Sarah
"Hypnotically engaging and almost painfully genuine...an extremely talented writer."--Salon
While a student in New York, David Amsden worked at the New Yorker and New York magazine, where he is now a contributing writer. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is at work on another novel.
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- PublisherWilliam Morrow & Company
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0060513896
- ISBN 13 9780060513894
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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