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. Praise for WANT NOT
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"With a light "Midas touch, Miles turns alf the glut ache of late America into pure gold. If you're in that soul-hunt up the food chain and down the dial for something more satisfying than the hollow abundance of our contemporary lives, read this book. It is warm, complex, comic, honest, and never flinching. Want Not wastes not a word, while its pleasures are endless."
— JOSHUA FERRIS, AUTHOR OF THE UNNAMED
"In this powerful, blisteringly funny novel, Jonathan Miles makes a startling discovery: We are what we throw away Miles mines the depths of waste so artfully that by the end of this extraordinary novel, we're left with the suspicion that redemption may well be no more, and no less, than an existential salvage operation."
— BEN FOUNTAIN, AUTHOR OF BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK
^ant Not, Jonathan Miles's brilliant and original take on a culture—ours—that mindlessly seems to squander all that is dear, is as witty as it is... Tovább

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. Praise for WANT NOT
Advance Fraise

"With a light "Midas touch, Miles turns alf the glut ache of late America into pure gold. If you're in that soul-hunt up the food chain and down the dial for something more satisfying than the hollow abundance of our contemporary lives, read this book. It is warm, complex, comic, honest, and never flinching. Want Not wastes not a word, while its pleasures are endless."
— JOSHUA FERRIS, AUTHOR OF THE UNNAMED
"In this powerful, blisteringly funny novel, Jonathan Miles makes a startling discovery: We are what we throw away Miles mines the depths of waste so artfully that by the end of this extraordinary novel, we're left with the suspicion that redemption may well be no more, and no less, than an existential salvage operation."
— BEN FOUNTAIN, AUTHOR OF BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK
^ant Not, Jonathan Miles's brilliant and original take on a culture—ours—that mindlessly seems to squander all that is dear, is as witty as it is mind-blowing and eye-opening. The combination of high-octane prose and Miles's compassion for his characters makes for a novel that stirs the collective conscience. - . Aj:lear-eyed, exuberant entertainment."
— HELEN SCHUt.MAN, AUTHOR OF THIS BEAUTIFUL LIFE
$26.00 / Higher in Canada
With his critically acclaimed first novel, Jonathan Miles was widely praised as a comic genius "after something bigger" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) whose fiction was "not just philosophically but emotionally rewarding" (Richard Russo, New York Times Book Review, front cover).
Now, in his much anticipated second novel. Miles takes a giant leap forward with this highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times, a three-pronged tale of human excess that sifts through the detritus of several disparate lives—lost loves, blown chances, countless words and deeds misdirected or misunderstood—all conjoined in their come-hell-or-high-water search for fulfillment.
^As the novel opens on Thanksgiving Day, readers are telescoped into three different worlds in various states of disrepair—a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father's losing battle with Alzheimer's; and a self-made debt-collecting p magnate, whose brute talent for squeezing (fh money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included.
Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something, anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly yet irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned.
With a satirist's eye and a romantic's heart. Miles captures the morass and comedy of contemporary life in all its excess. Bold, unblinking, unforgettable in its irony and pathos, Want Not is a wicked, bighearted literary novel that confirms the arrival of a major voice in American fiction.

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