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An American, hoping to forget his past, leaves a run-down hotel to meet a local European woman who has agreed to help him search for an apartment in this new novel from the author of A Preparation for Death. 30,000 first printing.
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"Violence, lurking offstage throughout the story, makes a shocking entrance near the end, setting in place everything that's come before. The effect is devastating, in the best possible way." ""Denver Post"""
"THE APARTMENT is an exciting debut novel, and leaves one eager for Baxter's follow-up, whenever that may be." "The Daily Beast, Hot Reads""
"It is one of the best novels I have read in a long time... It is very much to Baxter's credit that he presents this struggle as if it were thriller, love story, philosophical novel and dark comedy combined, in a novel not like a bullet but like an arrow flying straight to the heart of the matter." "Stacey D'Erasmo, "New York Times Book Review """
"Absorbing, atmospheric and enigmatic...With its disorienting juxtaposition of the absolutely ordinary and the strange and vaguely threatening, the novel evokes the work of Franz Kafka and Haruki Murakami, while its oblique explorations of memory suggest a debt to W.G. Sebald... Baxter's provocative, unsettling novel is, among other things, about the inexorability of identity and 'the immortality of violence.'" ""Los Angeles Times """
"In this bleak but affecting novel, an unnamed American expat spends a day walking through a frigid, unidentified European city in search of an apartment...The details of his day are rendered with anaesthetized precision and achieve a cumulative force of grief, equanimity, and resolve." "" The New Yorker"""
"In a year marked by epics, it's a relief to delve into this quiet, surprisingly tense debut novel - small enough to fit into a stocking but packing a huge emotional punch." ""Entertainment Weekly """
"A beautiful meditation on brutality and culture, which are sometimes one and the same." ""Minneapolis Star Tribune," "Hot Five" list""
"An elegant portrait of a man half-fractured, half-intact-a post-war somebody caught between repair and capitulation, controlling his own fate and imprisoned by regret." --- The Texas Observer
"In the layered narratives of Baxter's piercing first novel, a young American returned from Iraq struggles to find a new life in Europe." ""New York Times," " Sunday Book Review," Editor's Choice""
"It is precisely this sort of subversion, along with the author's shimmering prose, that makes THE APARTMENT such a surprisingly compelling read and so apropos; it captures the mood of the current moment and what seems to be a new "lost generation," one formed not so much by exposure to violence, as immunity to and alienation from it. Once upon a time, there was no place like home; in Mr. Baxter's world, home, it seems, is no place." "Adam Langer, "The" "New York Times"""
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"THE APARTMENT is an exciting debut novel, and leaves one eager for Baxter's follow-up, whenever that may be." "The Daily Beast, Hot Reads""
"It is one of the best novels I have read in a long time... It is very much to Baxter's credit that he presents this struggle as if it were thriller, love story, philosophical novel and dark comedy combined, in a novel not like a bullet but like an arrow flying straight to the heart of the matter." "Stacey D'Erasmo, "New York Times Book Review """
"Absorbing, atmospheric and enigmatic...With its disorienting juxtaposition of the absolutely ordinary and the strange and vaguely threatening, the novel evokes the work of Franz Kafka and Haruki Murakami, while its oblique explorations of memory suggest a debt to W.G. Sebald... Baxter's provocative, unsettling novel is, among other things, about the inexorability of identity and 'the immortality of violence.'" ""Los Angeles Times """
"In this bleak but affecting novel, an unnamed American expat spends a day walking through a frigid, unidentified European city in search of an apartment...The details of his day are rendered with anaesthetized precision and achieve a cumulative force of grief, equanimity, and resolve." "" The New Yorker"""
"In a year marked by epics, it's a relief to delve into this quiet, surprisingly tense debut novel - small enough to fit into a stocking but packing a huge emotional punch." ""Entertainment Weekly """
"A beautiful meditation on brutality and culture, which are sometimes one and the same." ""Minneapolis Star Tribune," "Hot Five" list""
"An elegant portrait of a man half-fractured, half-intact-a post-war somebody caught between repair and capitulation, controlling his own fate and imprisoned by regret." --- The Texas Observer
"In the layered narratives of Baxter's piercing first novel, a young American returned from Iraq struggles to find a new life in Europe." ""New York Times," " Sunday Book Review," Editor's Choice""
"It is precisely this sort of subversion, along with the author's shimmering prose, that makes THE APARTMENT such a surprisingly compelling read and so apropos; it captures the mood of the current moment and what seems to be a new "lost generation," one formed not so much by exposure to violence, as immunity to and alienation from it. Once upon a time, there was no place like home; in Mr. Baxter's world, home, it seems, is no place." "Adam Langer, "The" "New York Times"""
'I wish we could preserve our relationship as it is now for a long time. I wish we could remain strangers.'
One snowy morning in a large old European capital, a man - forty-one, ex-US Navy, alone - wakes in a hotel room. A young local woman he has befriended calls to the hotel, and the two of them head out into the snow to find the man an apartment to rent.
Greg Baxter's astonishing first novel tells the story of these two people on this day - and the old stories that brought them to where they are. Its magically subtle and intense narrative takes them across the frozen city and into the past that the man is hoping to escape, and leaves them at the doorstep of an uncertain future. The Apartment is a book about war, the relationship between America and the rest of the world, and the brittle foundations of Western culture; but above all it is a book about the mysteries and alchemies of friendship - truthful, moving and brilliant.
PRAISE FOR GREG BAXTER'S MEMOIR, A PREPARATION FOR DEATH
'Baxter is a serious, thoughtful writer, bent on emotional truth and artistry' Suzi Feay, Financial TImes
'Brilliant and wonderfully original' William Leith, Literary Review
'Brave, honest and propulsive' Metro
'This is an occasionally infuriating and completely wonderful book. I read it in one sitting, unsettled and delighted by its ferocity' Anne Enright
'A guide to drunkenness, sex, the hell that is other people, and writer's block, etched with an infuriating honesty' Roy Foster, TLS International Books of the Year
'The triumph is the steely courage it takes to put a life down with such uncompromising clarity' Hugo Hamilton, Irish Times
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- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1455574783
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