{"product_id":"brendan-wolf-brian-malloy-9781735330112","title":"Brendan Wolf","description":"Who is Brendan Wolf? It all depends on who you ask. * To the staff of a Minneapolis nursing home, he's the devoted partner of a much older man who's recently suffered a debilitating stroke. * To the women of a conservative, Christian pro-life organization, he's the tireless volunteer grieving over the recent loss of his wife and their unborn child. * To one gay activist, he's the unaffectedly charming, yet directionless and unemployed man that he's fallen hopelessly in love with * To his brother and his brother's wife, he's the lynchpin of a scam that will net them enough money to start their lives over somewhere new. * To the general public, he's an armed and dangerous fugitive All of these people - and yet none of them - Brendan Wolf is an ambivalent lover, reluctant conspirator, counterfeit Christian, and, most of all, an unemployed daydreamer obsessed with a dead man. From the author of the award-winning The Year of Ice, this is a tour-de-force - a compelling, hilarious, heart-breaking novel about one utterly typical, and completely original, figure: Brendan Wolf.\"Malloy masterfully blends the page turning plot and brooding atmosphere of neo-noir with an affecting sensitivity to the struggle for human connection.\" - OUT\"Malloy's prose has a meticulous sheen that bears comparison to such careful crafters as David Leavitt and Mary Gaitskill.\" - Lambda Book Report\"A superb work of a wonderful writer.\" - Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love.\"BRENDAN WOLF manages to be both hilarious and desperate, a book that is as complicated as its wily, winning protagonist. Brian Malloy has created an amazing character in Brendan, an ordinary man doing his best to keep hoping for better. I read BRENDAN WOLF in two days, and now I'm going to go read it again.\" - Amanda Eyre Ward, author of Sleep Toward Heaven\"Twisted, strange, awesome and wise, BRENDAN WOLF redeemed my faith that a literary book could be exciting for its content as well as its words. This is a gritty, real, unbelievably bold novel that will break your heart and leave you haunted by its entirely original characters.\" - Lisa Tucker, author of The Song Reader.\"Unflinchingly smart, surprising and shattering both, and written in prose as clean and clear as a mountain stream, BRENDAN WOLF is nothing short of brilliant.\" - Caroline Leavitt, author of Coming Back to Me and Girls in Trouble\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Malloy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1735330116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781735330112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Malloy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d","brand":"Brian Malloy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069145837823,"sku":"9781735330112","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_988eb4d7-535e-4c11-ad00-d8e6147c87d4.jpg?v=1685423063","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brendan-wolf-brian-malloy-9781735330112","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}