The Coast of Akron

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Product Details

Price
$27.00  $25.11
Publisher
St. Martins Press-3PL
Publish Date
Pages
390
Dimensions
5.6 X 1.0 X 8.4 inches | 1.15 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780312425135
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About the Author

Adrienne Miller is the literary editor at Esquire, which won the 2004 National Magazine Award for Fiction. She now lives in New York City. The Coast of Akron is her first novel

Reviews

"Adrienne Miller's enormous talent is evident on every page. . . . She has written a big, smart novel that's confident and juicy." --Curtis Sittenfeld, The Washington Post

"Miller's handling of this crew is a joy, the characters revealing themselves through a clever and deftly synchronized plot and unflaggingly witty prose." --The Boston Globe

"When Miller lights the narrative fuse, her readers wait for the fireworks with heart-pounding giddiness. . . . Yet, oddly enough, it isn't the zany plot that provides the most excitement. Instead, the pyrotechnics come from Miller's enormous wit and linguistic creativity." --The New York Times Book Review

"The Coast of Akron is a joy to read and decipher." --The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

"Splendidly realized characters . . . Miller is a gifted ventriloquist." --Chicago Tribune

"As a farce, the book could not be more bizarre, or more dead-on-target. . . . The novel this one most resembles is Don DeLillo's classic White Noise. Like the Gladneys of DeLillo's book, the family in this lively debut has a slaphappy giddiness that seems almost to come from something in the air." --The Independent (London)