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A REAGAN ARTHUR / BACK BAY BOOK
"One of the most surprising, delightful, compulsively readable, and ultimately profound novels I've read In some time." —Laura Lippman
"You'll be completely defenseless when Next rips your heart right out."
^ —Ron Charles, Washington Post
DESCENDING ON A PLANE INTO AUSTIN,
Kevin Quinn is worried about his stifling job, the younger girlfriend he's lucky to have but can't commit to, his rapidly encroaching late middle age, and the terrorist attacks that rocked the world just days ago, But as the tarmac looms closer, he's really thinking about only one thing: the beautiful young woman in the seat next to him.
Though he should be focused on the job interview that's brought him to Texas, Kevin can't quite let his luminous seatmate go. He impulsively follows her through the city in a quixotic journey that evokes scenes from his past: his dodgy love life, the tragicomedy of his youthful idealism, the dysfunctional familv he has only ever wanted to... Tovább

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A REAGAN ARTHUR / BACK BAY BOOK
"One of the most surprising, delightful, compulsively readable, and ultimately profound novels I've read In some time." —Laura Lippman
"You'll be completely defenseless when Next rips your heart right out."
^ —Ron Charles, Washington Post
DESCENDING ON A PLANE INTO AUSTIN,
Kevin Quinn is worried about his stifling job, the younger girlfriend he's lucky to have but can't commit to, his rapidly encroaching late middle age, and the terrorist attacks that rocked the world just days ago, But as the tarmac looms closer, he's really thinking about only one thing: the beautiful young woman in the seat next to him.
Though he should be focused on the job interview that's brought him to Texas, Kevin can't quite let his luminous seatmate go. He impulsively follows her through the city in a quixotic journey that evokes scenes from his past: his dodgy love life, the tragicomedy of his youthful idealism, the dysfunctional familv he has only ever wanted to escape. m H
It's a day both common in its anxieties and singular for its fresh possibilities. Then, on the fifty-second floor of an Austin office tower, as he takes the first steps toward what might be a late-in-life second chance, Kevin is confronted with a shocking reality about himself, and the age we live in. Perhaps, in the nick of time, he will understand just what happens next.
"The novel's final fifty pages are a shock—as vertiginous and stunning as any conclusion in fiction that I can remember over the last decade. Next is spiky in its' deception. I ended it all shook up—in a very good way." —Karen R. Long, Cleveland Plain Dealer
Publish and Perish, and The Wild Colonial Boy—have been called " riveting exhilarating sheer joy" (New York Times), "entirely delightful" {Washington Post), "diamond sharp" {People), and "macabre, funny, and very twisted" {Esquire). He lives in Austin, Texas.
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