Making Nice
Language: English
Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2015
- First Edition
- Softcover
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Seller: Aspen Book Co., Denver, CO, U.S.A.Aspen Book Co.
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This First Edition trade paperback of "Making Nice" is in excellent condition. The cover is clean and vibrant, with no visible creases or tears. The spine is intact, and the pages are crisp and unmarked. There are no inscriptions, and the book is not an ex-library copy, ensuring it remains in a collectible state. not applicable (trade paperback).
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- Title
- Making Nice
- Author
- Matt Sumell
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company, New York
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1627790934
- ISBN 13
- 9781627790932
- Edition
- First Edition 2015.
Named a book of the year by BUSTLE and ELECTRIC LITERATURE
Alby is Holden Caulfield in the Internet age..." --Los Angeles Times
Hailed as "indelible" by Entertainment Weekly, a "cringe-inducingly funny" (The Wall Street Journal) gut-punch of a debut about love, grief, and family "unleashes one of the most comically arresting voices this side of Sam Lipsyte's Homeland" (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
In Matt Sumell's blazing first book, our hero Alby flails wildly against the world around himhe punches his sister (she deserved it), "unprotectos" broads (they deserved it and liked it), gets drunk and picks fights (all deserved), defends defenseless creatures both large and small, and spews insults at children, slow drivers, old ladies, and every single surviving member of his family. In each of these stories Alby distills the anguish, the terror, the humor, and the strange graceor lack ofhe experiences in the aftermath of his mother's death. Swirling at the center of Alby's rage is a grief so big, so profound, it might swallow him whole. As he drinks, screws, and jokes his way through his pain and heartache, Alby's anger, his kindness, and his capacity for good bubble up when he (and we) least expect it. Sumell delivers "a naked rendering of a heart sorting through its broken pieces to survive.*"
Making Nice is a powerful, full-steam-ahead ride that will keep you laughing even as you try to catch your breath; a new classic about love, loss, and the fine line between grappling through grief and fighting for (and with) the only family you've got.
*Mark Richard
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About the Author
Matt Sumell is a graduate of UC Irvine's MFA program, and his fiction has since appeared in Esquire, the Paris Review, Electric Literature, One Story, Noon, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles, California. Making Nice is his first book.
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