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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Brilliance Audio
Publication date December 22, 2015
Binding CD/Spoken Word
Edition Mp3 una
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781511338271
ISBN-10 151133827X
Availability§ Publication Cancelled
Original list price $9.99
Other format details audio
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Summaries and Reviews
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In the most audacious literary debut to come out of the Steel City since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, we meet Peter Morrison, twenty-nine and comfortably adrift in a state of not-quite-adulthood, less concerned about the general direction of his life than with his suspicion that all his closest relationships are the products of inertia. He and his girlfriend float along in the same general direction, while his parents are acting funny, though his rich, hypochondriac grandmother is still good for admission to the better parties. He spends his days clocking into Global Solutions (a firm whose purpose remains unnervingly ambiguous) and his weekends listening to the half-imagined rants of his childhood best friend, Johnny. An addict and conspiracy theorist, Johnny believes Pittsburgh is a "nexus of intense magical convergence" and is playing host to a cabal of dubious politicians, evil corporate schemes, ancient occult rites, and otherwise inexplicable phenomena, such as the fact that people really do keep seeing UFOs hovering over the city.

Against this strange background, Peter meets Mark and Helen, a slightly older couple, new to town, whose wealth and glamour never fully conceal the suggestion of something sinister, and with whom he becomes quickly infatuated. In The Bend of the World, Philip K. Dick meets Michael Chabon, and Jacob Bacharach creates an appropriately hilarious, bizarre, and keenly observed portrait of life on the edge of thirty in the adolescent years of twenty-first-century America.



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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780871406828
 
from Liveright Pub Corp (April 14, 2014)
9780871406828 | details & prices | 308 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.88 lbs | List price $25.95
About: "A comedy of bad manners, darting wisecracks, deadpan chagrin, and drug-hazed pratfalls" (James Wolcott), The Bend of the World is a madcap coming-of-age novel in which no one quite comes of age and everything you know is not a lie, it's just, well, tangential to the truth.
Paperback
Book cover for 9781631490002
 
from Liveright Pub Corp (April 13, 2015)
9781631490002 | details & prices | 308 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.64 lbs | List price $14.95
CD/Spoken Word
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Mp3 una edition from Brilliance Audio (December 22, 2015)
9781511338271 | details & prices | List price $9.99
About: In the most audacious literary debut to come out of the Steel City since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, we meet Peter Morrison, twenty-nine and comfortably adrift in a state of not-quite-adulthood, less concerned about the general direction of his life than with his suspicion that all his closest relationships are the products of inertia.

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