Private Citizens - Softcover

Tulathimutte, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062399101 ISBN 13: 9780062399106

Publisher: William Morrow & Company, 2016

Synopsis

PRIVATE CITIZENS was named a best book of the year by New York Magazine/Vulture, The New Yorker, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Nylon, Kirkus, Electric Literature and The Millions.

An Amazon Best Book of the Month in the Literature & Fiction Category
A Buzzfeed "Most Exciting" Book of 2016
A Flavorwire "Most Anticipated" Book of 2016

New York Magazine calls Private Citizens "the first great millennial novel."

Emma Cline calls it "brilliant."

From a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition, and friendship in millennial San Francisco. With the social acuity of Adelle Waldman and the murderous wit of Martin Amis, Tony Tulathimutte's Private Citizens is a brainy, irreverent debut--This Side of Paradise for a new era.

Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century: call it a loving satire. A gleefully rude comedy of manners. Middlemarch for Millennials. The novel's four whip-smart narrators--idealistic Cory, Internet-lurking Will, awkward Henrik, and vicious Linda--are torn between fixing the world and cannibalizing it. In boisterous prose that ricochets between humor and pain, the four estranged friends stagger through the Bay Area's maze of tech startups, protestors, gentrifiers, karaoke bars, house parties, and cultish self-help seminars, washing up in each other's lives once again.

A wise and searching depiction of a generation grappling with privilege and finding grace in failure, Private Citizens is as expansively intelligent as it is full of heart.

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Review:

Private Citizens is a freak of literature--a novel so authentic, hilarious, elegantly plotted, and heartbreaking that I d follow it anywhere. Tony Tulathimutte is a singular intellect with an uncanny 40/20 vision on the world. --Jennifer duBois, author of Cartwheel and A Partial History of Lost Causes"

Private Citizens is the product of a whirring intellect with brilliance to burn...Reading Tony Tulathimutte is like watching a mad genius at work in his laboratory, conjuring the magnificent and the monstrous into life. --Anthony Marra, New York Times-bestselling author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena"

[A] razor-sharp debut...Witty, unsparing, and unsettlingly precise, Tulathimutte empathizes with his subjects even as he (brilliantly) skewers them. A satirical portrait of privilege and disappointment with striking emotional depth. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"

Tulathimutte s debut is poetic and verbose...an impressive start for an edgy new writer. --Booklist"

Private Citizens is my favorite kind of novel...It enchants, entertains...makes me laugh my ass off, and never, ever doubts my intelligence. --Benjamin Hale, author of The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore"

Private Citizens is a combustible combination of acrobatic language, dead-on observations and hilarious, heartbreaking storytelling. Tulathimutte has created characters that are hard to forget--first they ll make you want to strangle them, then you ll end up falling in love with them. --Angela Flournoy, National Book Award finalist and author of The Turner House"

A hilarious and gutsy novel that does the braver thing, reinvesting the world we know with humanity. Tony Tulathimutte s satire cuts deep, bur has a tender belly--and this book will leave you raw with feeling and aching at the ribs. --Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine"

Rabidly intelligent, subversive, and heartfelt...An important and deliciously readable book by a brilliant new voice that poignantly upends contemporary ideas of authenticity. --Jennifer Percy, author of Demon Camp"

Tulathimutte exhibits a talent for satire, and a willingness to embrace brutal reality and outright absurdity. --Publishers Weekly"

If Evelyn Waugh and Tom Wolfe had a baby, one who wrote sensibly about the subset of people that Dave Eggers has written about whimsically, that baby would probably be Tony Tulathimutte. --Paris Review"

From the Back Cover:

From a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition, and friendship in millennial San Francisco. With the social acuity of Adelle Waldman and the murderous wit of Martin Amis, Tony Tulathimutte's Private Citizens is a brainy, irreverent debut--This Side of Paradise for a new era.

Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century: call it a loving satire. A gleefully rude comedy of manners. Middlemarch for Millennials. The novel's four whip-smart narrators--idealistic Cory, Internet-lurking Will, awkward Henrik, and vicious Linda--are torn between fixing the world and cannibalizing it. In boisterous prose that ricochets between humor and pain, the four estranged friends stagger through the Bay Area's maze of tech startups, protestors, gentrifiers, karaoke bars, house parties, and cultish self-help seminars, washing up in each other's lives once again.

A wise and searching depiction of a generation grappling with privilege and finding grace in failure, Private Citizens is as expansively intelligent as it is full of heart.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0062399101
• ISBN 13: 9780062399106
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384