A Precarious Man
Stefan Mattessich
(Author)
Description
Nick Moran is one of that hapless tribe you hear about on occasion: an English PhD who can't find a job. Even when he does, years later and after a second career as a hack Hollywood screenwriter falls apart, the department at a university in Auckland, New Zealand, turns out to be a hornet's nest of paranoia (think "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings"), arbitrary power, and guilt by association. When his consensual relationship with a student leads not just to scandal and public disgrace but a threat of prosecution for "human rights violations," he finds himself in a still more confounding limbo of uncertain identity and thwarted hope. His path out of despair takes him to New York, where he slips into another limbo of drugs and sex, and then to Paris, where he helps his best friend Haley, lost in her own shadows, back from an edge of madness.Product Details
Price
$30.00
$27.90
Publisher
Atopon Books
Publish Date
December 05, 2023
Pages
378
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 1.0 inches | 1.59 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9798986210469
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STEFAN MATTESSICH is the author of three novels: Point Guard, a coming-of-age story set on the Northern California coast of Mendocino; The Riverbed, about intelligent young people coming to learn about the darker sides of the suburban dream they call home; and A Precarious Man, about one man's search for meaning in neoliberal society. He went to Yale College and has a PhD in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he wrote a monograph on the fiction of Thomas Pynchon called Lines of Flight, published by Duke University Press. He has also written a wide variety of literary criticism and cultural theory. He teaches English at Santa Monica College and lives in Los Angeles.
Reviews
An often intriguing. . .tale about living on the edge of catastrophe.
--Kirkus Reviews