Lurid & Cute: A Novel

ôThe narrator of [Lurid & Cute] may be ThirlwellÆs best creation yet.öùAndrew Ervin, The New York Times Book Review (EditorsÆ Choice) ôLurid & Cute is a simple story of mayhem and ennui, almost a caper, but told with such satisfying ironies and verbal dexterity that everything is Technicolor again. So alive, so inventive, so very good.öùJoshua Ferris Lurid & Cute takes place in the suburbs of a giant city, where our narrator lives at home with his parents, together with his wife and dog. He has had a good education and, until recently, a good job. But then the lurid overtakes himùand whether this transformation is caused by our heroÆs present unemployment, or his feelings for a girl who is not his wife, or the return of his old friend Hiro, itÆs hard to say. WhatÆs definite is that it sets off a chain of events that feels, to those inside it, narcotic and neurotic, like one long and terrible descentùcomplete with lies, deceit, and chicanery: one orgy, one brothel, and a series of firearms disputes.

• | Author: Adam Thirlwell
• | Publisher: Picador
• | Publication Date: Apr 12, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1250081661
• | ISBN-13: 9781250081667