Want Not - by Jonathan Miles (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the author of <i>Dear American Airlines</i>, a highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book <p/>"A wonderful book, and there's no one I would not urge to read it . . . This is the work of a fluid, confident and profoundly talented writer who gets more fluid, more confident and seemingly more talented even within the book itself." --Dave Eggers, <i>New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>A highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times, Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair--a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father's losing battle with Alzheimer's; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate, whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included. <p/>Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something, anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly, randomly, yet irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. <p/>"Shrewd, funny, and sometimes devastating . . . What <i>Want Not</i> does best, though, isn't plotting but portraits of humanity: the small epiphanies and private hurts of every person whose life, like the detritus they produce, is as beautifully mundane and unique as a fingerprint." --<i>Entertainment Weekly</i> <p/>"An impassioned work of fiction." --<i>Dallas Morning News</i><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book <br> A wonderful book, and there s no one I would not urge to read it . . . This is the work of a fluid, confident and profoundly talented writer who gets more fluid, more confident and seemingly more talented even within the book itself. Dave Eggers, <i>New York Times Book Review</i> <br>A highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times, Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father s losing battle with Alzheimer s; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate, whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included. <br>Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something, anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly, randomly, yet irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. <br> Shrewd, funny, and sometimes devastating . . . What <i>Want Not</i> does best, though, isn t plotting but portraits of humanity: the small epiphanies and private hurts of every person whose life, like the detritus they produce, is as beautifully mundane and unique as a fingerprint. <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> <br> An impassioned work of fiction. <i>Dallas Morning News</i> <br>[author photo] Jonathan Miles is a former columnist for the New York Times and a contributing editor to magazines as diverse as Field & Stream and Details. He writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review and Literary Review (UK). A former longtime resident of Oxford, Mississippi, he currently lives with his family in rural New Jersey. <p> <p> <br>"<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>JONATHAN MILES's first novel, <i>Dear American Airlines</i>, was named a <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> and the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>. He writes regularly for the <i>New York Times Book Review</i>.
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