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Living on a diet of fried Spam, vodka, sardines, cupcakes, and Southern Comfort, Andrew Whittaker is slowly being sucked into the morass of middle age. A negligent landlord, small-time literary journal editor, and aspiring novelist, he is quite literally authoring his own downfall. From his letters, diary entries, and fragments of fiction, to grocery lists and posted signs, this novel is a collection of everything Whittaker commits to paper over the course of four critical months.
Beginning in July, during the economic hardships of the Nixon era, we witness our hero hounded by tenants and creditors, harassed by a loathsome local arts group, and tormented by his ex-wife. Determined to redeem his failures and eviscerate his enemies, Whittaker hatches a grand plan. But as winter nears, his difficulties accumulate, and the disorder of his life threatens to overwhelm him. As his hold on reality weakens and his schemes grow wilder, his self-image as a placid and slow-moving sloth evolves into that of a bizarre and frantic creature driven mad by solitude.
In this tragicomic portrait of a literary life, Sam Savage proves that all the evidence is in the writing, that all the world is, indeed, a stage, and that escape from the mind’s prison requires a command performance.
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The Cry of the Sloth is the funniest anatomy of literary mediocrity since Max Beerbohm's Enoch Soames (John Sutherland THE TIMES)
most of the novel consists of Whittakers hilarious rejection letters to wannabe authors.. Savage works page after page of delightful variations on this theme (Ian Sansom THE GUARDIAN)
A funny and pathetic sequence of letters.. written over the course of several months (Michael Caines TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT)
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most of the novel consists of Whittakers hilarious rejection letters to wannabe authors.. Savage works page after page of delightful variations on this theme (Ian Sansom THE GUARDIAN)
A funny and pathetic sequence of letters.. written over the course of several months (Michael Caines TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT)
From the author of FIRMIN, a tale of life, literature and the way of the sloth...
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