Down time : a novel / Andrew Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Andrew, 1985- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Friendship--Fiction.

Friendship.

Adulthood--Fiction.

Adulthood.

Generation Y--Fiction.

Generation Y.

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

College teachers--Fiction.

College teachers.

Physicians--Fiction.

Physicians.

Pandemics--Fiction.

Pandemics.

Authors--Fiction.

Authors.

Art--Fiction.

Art.

Alcoholism--Fiction.

Alcoholism.

Genre:

Satirical fiction.

Novels.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

285 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026.

Summary:

"Without Cassandra, Aaron would probably be dead. Fortunately, she won't leave him - despite the drinking, flirting, solipsism, armchair socialism, overspending, infidelity, catastrophic depression, and disparate but increasingly frequent spells of drug- and booze-addled debauchery. Unfortunately, she might be reaching the end of her rope. Cass and Aaron, like the other neurotic, ambivalent intellctuals in their orbit, are getting older. There's Malcolm, with his own alcoholism and marginally more successful writing career; his partner, Violet, a doctor with little patience for either; Antonia, a teaching fellow whose book about ecocide may get her tenure at a prestigious university near Harvard Square - yes, that one. When Sam, a charming trust-fund punk at the center of this loose network, dies suddenly and a global pandemic takes hold, all five must contend with the lives they've made: their desires and disappointments, habits and hang-ups, pathologies and addictions, and the possibilities of making art and being good as the earth whirls to its end. Down Time marks the delightful return of Andrew Martin, the author of the pitch-perfect slacker classics Early Work and Cool for America. Compulsively readable and contagiously intelligent, this is a wryly comic novel of settling down, selling out, growing up, and getting out that turns a terrifically funny and hyperliterate eye on our most desperately guarded ambitions: to love and be loved, to know and be known, to stay sane, if only just."--Book jacket flap.

ISBN:

9780374617066

0374617066

OCLC:

1513951692