Making Nice

Sumell, Matt

ISBN 10: 0099597659 / ISBN 13: 9780099597650

Published by Vintage, 2016

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Synopsis:

Meet Alby.

Natural habitat: a bar; a boat; his bedroom; a broad's bedroom.

Favourite hobbies: starting fights (then losing them); hooking up with broads (then losing them); hating cats (it's a skill); training Gary the baby bird to be a killer (sort of).

Best kept secret: when his mum died it broke his hear and he doesn't really know what to do about it.

'Sumell's savage humour is thrilling'
New York Times

'Gloriously funny'
Literary Review

'Making Nice has an anarchic humour and a goofy, ingenious humanity that makes every page feel new'
Guardian

About the Author: Matt Sumell is a graduate of University of California, Irvine’s MFA programme, and his fiction has since appeared in the Paris Review, Esquire, Electric Literature and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Making Nice
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good