Who Sleeps with Katz - Softcover

McEwen, Todd

3.94

35 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862076642 ISBN 13: 9781862076648

Publisher: Granta Books, 2004

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The doctor delivers bad news. What's a man to do, with the life he has left to live? He can cry, he can wonder which particular cigarette did it - the 564,119th or the 976,835th - or which brand. Kent? Pall Mall? Or (and as well) he can call the friend he loves in the city he loves and then set out down the avenues and streets of New York to meet him. He walks, he runs, he sits, he remembers. Every corner, every block has a memory: women, food, drink, friendship, the comedy of office life and of sexual success and failure. It's as though the towers of Manhattan have become a shelf of books, each to opened and regretfully read for the last time. A day to remember and a journey, truly, of a lifetime. This tender, funny novel is a salute to a great city's enchantment and the sweet, frustrating mysteries of life - by one of today's most richly inventive writers, described by the Guardian as 'one of the few real writers around'.

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Review:

'A book as refreshing as a martini on a hot New York night’ -- Irish Times

'a full pelt novel, so rich in ideas and colour that it makes most contemporaries seem lilly-livered and lightweight' -- Uncut

'one of the funniest things you’ll read all year’ -- The Times

‘A masterly stream-of-consciousness day trip...beautifully crafted, this is rarefied fiction that demands total concentration’ -- Rosemary Goring, The Herald 'Critic's Choice' Books of the Year

‘McEwen offers ferocious wit, a stream of magnificent sentences...and a blissful knowledge of what really matters in life.’ -- The Guardian

‘One of the year’s best novels: an abundant bittersweet hymn to New York' -- Sunday Herald Books of the Year 2004

‘Refreshingly sad and clever’ -- Alan Warner, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year

About the Author:

Todd McEwen was born in California in 1953 and graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1975. He worked in broadcasting, theatre and the rare book trade before settling in Scotland in 1981. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife, novelist Lucy Ellman. Several of his stories have been published by Granta magazine. This is his fourth novel.

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