Harry, Revised
A Novel
Sarvas, Mark
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
A sophisticated, sterling debut by a wonderful emerging talentthe founder of the popular literary blog The Elegant Variation.
Harry, Revised is the hilarious and tender story of Harry Rent, a down-on-his-luck widower, who tries to reinvent himself following his wifes untimely death. Harrys emotional journey takes him from his own solipsistic and outrageously misdirected fantasies about an obsidian-haired, twenty-two-year-old waitress at his local greasy spoon to the tenuous beginnings of an actual personal transformation. At once deeply moving and darkly comedic, Harry, Revised is an extraordinary novel about the measure of a mans worth.
AUTHOR BIO
Mark Sarvas is the founder of the popular litblog The Elegant Variation, which Forbes and Entertainment Weekly have named as one of the best blogs on the Web. His fiction has appeared in Troika Magazine, the Wisconsin Review, Apostrophe, Thought Magazine, and Pindeldyboz and as part of the Spoken Interludes and Vermin on the Mount reading series in Los Angeles. His criticism has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Three Penny Review, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. This is his first novel. He lives with his wife in Los Angeles.
BOOK REVIEWS
Mark Sarvass first novel is funny and sad, rueful, wised-up and curiously moving. A remarkable debut.Booker Prize winner John Banville, bestselling author of The Sea
Mark Sarvas has created an enormously compelling character in Harry Rent, a man less at odds with himself than with certain personas the modern world forces us to inhabit. His ethical and emotional dilemmas drive the story and make Harry, Revised a scathingly funny but also wise and tender debut.Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land
Mark Sarvass debut novel is fun, fast and heartfelt, an exemplar of the Coming-of-Middle-Age novel in which an overgrown boy finally learns to grow up and deal with the world with greater compassion and maturityeven if thats no guarantee he wont stop running into things.National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End
Harry, Revised is immensely readable, very funny, and rich with earned emotionthe sort of novel (rare in this age) that you read in one or two sittings, and that moves you as much as it makes you laugh.David Leavitt, author of The Indian Clerk
As witty, erudite and outrageous as Waugh, with a flawed hero worthy of Roth. A marvelous, enviable debut.Andrew Sean Greer, author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1596914629
ISBN(13-digit): 9781596914629
Dewey Decimal: 813/.6
Library of Congress: 2008002397
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 265
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