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Important Things That Don't Matter

Important Things That Don't Matter


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About the Book

So Dad's around lately. That's it. And I want to tell you things, throw fragments your way that I barely understand. Because it's just funny, flat out, the way someone you don't even know can get up in your face, tweak things that should be so ordinary. Or I think it's funny. Maybe you will too. Hailed by The New Yorker as "a fictional report from the strip-mall front lines of Generation Y," Important Things That Don't Matter is a provocative, moving, darkly funny portrait of family and divorce, a boy and his father, the eighties and nineties, and sex and intimacy that raises vital questions about a generation just now reaching adulthood.

About the Author :
While a student in New York, David Amsden worked at the New Yorker and New York magazine, where he is now a contributing writer. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is at work on another novel.

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"Hypnotically engaging and almost painfully genuine...an extremely talented writer." -- Salon "You've got to hate this guy. He's already been called the voice of his generation." -- New York Times "The novel's so real and personal it's like being in this Gen Y kid's skin for 15 formative years." -- Entertainment Weekly "...so refreshingly un-Generation X..." -- Los Angeles Times "David Amsden is an invigorating, original, and sickeningly talented writer." -- Augusten Burroughs, author of Running With Scissors "Absorbing...a daring narrative that resonates with the heartbreaking emotion that lurks between Amsden's sharply written lines." -- BookPage "There are moments of literary brilliance in this story that will dazzle the reader." -- John Searles, author of Boy Still Missing "Nothing short of phenomenal!" -- Nick Fowler, author of A Thing (Or Two) About Curtis and Camilla "Really, really great...close-to-the-nerve honesty, severe suffering, intertwined with that leavening cynical humor." -- J.T. Leroy, author of Sarah "The narrator's voice is a likable mixture of bewilderment and tentative black humor...well cast and darkly ironic." -- Publishers Weekly "Conversational and tough, the novel's observant narrator is bound to captivate readers." -- Booklist "This book is a complete winner. Smart, charming, fresh, compelling--Amsden is a writer with enormous talent." -- Bill Buford, author of Among the Thugs


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780060513894
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Collins
  • Height: 204 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 204 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0060513896
  • Publisher Date: 30 Mar 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Width: 136 mm


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