Love Me Back - Hardcover

Tierce, Merritt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472150813 ISBN 13: 9781472150813

Publisher: Corsair, 2016

Synopsis

Marie is a waitress at an upscale Dallas steakhouse, attuned to the appetites of her patrons and gifted at hiding her private struggle as a young single mother behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. It's a world of long hours and late nights, and Marie often gives in to self-destructive impulses, losing herself in a tangle of bodies and urgent highs as her desire for obliteration competes with a stubborn will to survive.

Pulsing with a fierce and feral energy, Love Me Back is an unapologetic portrait of a woman cutting a precarious path through early adulthood and the herald of a powerful new voice in American fiction.

About this title

About the Author

Merritt Tierce, a National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree, was born and raised in Texas, and graduated from college at the age of 19. She received her MFA in fiction writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was named a Meta Rosenberg Fellow. In 2011 she was a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Merritt lives near Dallas with her husband and children.

From the Back Cover

Brilliant, devastating...Love Me Back is one of those exquisitely rare novels that feel desperate and urgent and absolutely necessary' New York Times Book Review

'Love Me Back is absolutely enthralling from first word to last. A lurid and devastating diorama of womanhood within the so-called service industry, it's also one of the most vital books about our invisible underclass I've read in years. Merritt Tierce is here to stay' Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold, Citrus, Fire

'Love Me Back is an unflinching and galvanic novel full of heart and heartache; one of my favourite books of the last few years' Carrie Brownstein, co-creator of Portlandia

'It's an awesome book' St Vincent

'Love Me Back is breathtaking, addictive, sexy, raw and honest . . . my favourite debut of the year' Jami Attenberg, author of Saint Maizie

'Love Me Back is a coiled spring of a novel, painful, incandescent, and fiercely authentic. Merritt Tierce is definitely one to watch - though not if you like your fiction safe and pretty' Rupert Thomson, author of Katherine Carlyle

From the Inside Flap

Finalist for The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
One of Chicago Tribune's 'Best Books of 2014'
National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honouree

Marie is a waitress at an upscale Dallas steakhouse, attuned to the appetites of her patrons and gifted at hiding her private struggle as a young single mother behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. It's a world of long hours and late nights, and Marie often gives in to self-destructive impulses, losing herself in a tangle of bodies and urgent highs as her desire for obliteration competes with a stubborn will to survive.

Pulsing with a fierce and feral energy, Love Me Back is an unapologetic portrait of a woman cutting a precarious path through early adulthood and the herald of a powerful new voice in American fiction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corsair
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472150813
• ISBN 13: 9781472150813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224