| Description |
1 online resource (170 pages) |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
"California Book Award-winner Greer presents a hilarious and immaculately written story set in L.A., exploring the inevitability of failure. The main character, Guy Forget, is a twenty-something drifter with brains, good looks, and absolutely no ambition except to get rich without having to work. His best friend, Billy, is a professional dog walker who ties the dogs to the rear bumper of his run-down car and drives very slowly. Along the way we meet, among others, Guy's Midwestern parents, his theoretical-physicist brother, his girlfriend Violet McKnight, and his secret nemesis, Sven Transvoort, who hates Guy with unusual passion for reasons that are not immediately clear. While the story of The Failure is fairly straightforward, the manner of its telling is anything but; it begins at the end, and proceeds in similarly nonlinear fashion to a conclusion that will surprise either nobody or everybody, depending on whos been paying attention. Using elements of pop culture, tech jargon, and noirish satire, the book attempts to answer the question not enough people ask themselves on a regular basis: Am I a failure?."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Slackers -- Fiction.
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Robbery -- Fiction.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- General.
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Robbery. (OCoLC)fst01098945
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Slackers. (OCoLC)fst01738495
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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California -- Los Angeles.
(OCoLC)fst01204540
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Greer, Jim, 1961- Failure. New York : Akashic, ©2010 9781933354972 (OCoLC)477294509 |
| ISBN |
9781936070763 (electronic bk.) |
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1936070766 (electronic bk.) |
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