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Pay as You Go (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781952119743)
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xA finalist for the 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award. Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize. Named a best book of 2023 by NPR.
New to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead he's landed in a creaking, stuffy apartment with two roommates: a loping giant who hardly leaves his room, and a weight-obsessed neurotic who keeps no fewer than forty-seven lamps throughout the house, blazing at all hours.
Unwilling to accept this fate, Slide-a barber with an opaque past-embarks on a quest for the perfect apartment, pinballing through the sprawling, madcap city of Polis and its endless procession of neighborhoods. As he bounces from foldout couch to disaster-relief tent, falling in with some tough types, Slide begins to realize that he's going to have to scratch and claw just to claim a place for himself in this world-let alone a place with in-unit laundry.
An exuberant, fantastical odyssey, Pay As You Go wonders if what we're searching for is ever really out there. Its pages-surreal, biting, and teeming with life-announce the startling talents of Eskor David Johnson, who knows that all any of us really want is a place to rest our head.
Author: Eskor David Johnson
ISBN-10: 195211974X
ISBN-13: 9781952119743
Publisher: McSweeney's
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2023
Pages: 500
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.80w x 1.70d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 08/07/2023
Foreword 08/27/2023
New to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead he's landed in a creaking, stuffy apartment with two roommates: a loping giant who hardly leaves his room, and a weight-obsessed neurotic who keeps no fewer than forty-seven lamps throughout the house, blazing at all hours.
Unwilling to accept this fate, Slide-a barber with an opaque past-embarks on a quest for the perfect apartment, pinballing through the sprawling, madcap city of Polis and its endless procession of neighborhoods. As he bounces from foldout couch to disaster-relief tent, falling in with some tough types, Slide begins to realize that he's going to have to scratch and claw just to claim a place for himself in this world-let alone a place with in-unit laundry.
An exuberant, fantastical odyssey, Pay As You Go wonders if what we're searching for is ever really out there. Its pages-surreal, biting, and teeming with life-announce the startling talents of Eskor David Johnson, who knows that all any of us really want is a place to rest our head.
Author: Eskor David Johnson
ISBN-10: 195211974X
ISBN-13: 9781952119743
Publisher: McSweeney's
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2023
Pages: 500
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.80w x 1.70d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 08/07/2023
Foreword 08/27/2023
By Eskor David Johnson
xEskor David Johnson is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago and the United States. His writing has appeared in BOMB Magazine, and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. A graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was the recipient of the Richard Yates Short Story Prize, the Maytag Fellowship and the Teaching-Writing Fellowship, he currently lives in New York City.
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