The Threat
Description
The Threat tells the darkly comic story of Melvin Levin, a middle-aged man who is dissatisfied with his dull and mediocre life. That is, until he receives a mysterious death threat in the mail. Terrified at first, Levin soon becomes accustomed to the threat--and then, increasingly, delighted with it, thrilled with his newfound importance as a "threatened man." But as his obsession with maintaining this identity becomes all-consuming, he risks blinding himself to the twin dangers of the threat itself and--perhaps worse--his own deranged mind.At once absurdist, moving, and savagely funny, The Threat is a timeless parable of the comic lengths to which people go to protect the delusions that validate them.Product Details
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Reviews
"A comic masterpiece." --Andy Borowitz, New York Times-bestselling author of Profiles in Ignorance
"I savored every word of Nathaniel Stein's hilarious, expertly crafted, giddily uncompromising debut novel. The Threat is full of pathos--loneliness, alienation, existential horror. But Stein is such a deft comedic stylist that all I experienced while reading it was joy. It's a fantastic book and I hope he writes a million more." --Simon Rich, Thurber Prize-winning author of New Teeth
"Nathaniel Stein has written a comic novel unlike anything that we have on hand recently: a small-scale exquisitist portrait of an improbable existence that has elements of both Kafka and Bruce Jay Friedman, and manages to be both appealingly absurd and strangely touching. A genuinely original book." --Adam Gopnik, New York Times-bestselling author of Paris to the Moon
