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Private Citizens - Tony Tulathimutte

By Tony Tulathimutte

Release Date: 2016-02-09

Genre: Literary Fiction

4 (30 ratings)
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ā€œScathing, upsetting and generous all at once, this novel, about millennial friends in pre-2008-crash San Francisco, thrums with Tulathimutteā€™s sly intelligence and unerring comic timing. . . . The warm flashes make the satire cut deeper.ā€ ā€”The New York Times, ā€œThe Funniest Novels Since Catch-22ā€ 

"One of the really phenomenal novels I've read in the last decade." ā€”Jonathan Franzen

From a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition, and friendship in millennial San Francisco. With the social acuity of Adelle Waldman and the murderous wit of Martin Amis, Tony Tulathimutteā€™s Private Citizens is a brainy, irreverent debutā€”This Side of Paradise for a new era.

Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century: call it a loving satire. A gleefully rude comedy of manners. Middlemarch for Millennials. The novel's four whip-smart narratorsā€”idealistic Cory, Internet-lurking Will, awkward Henrik, and vicious Lindaā€”are torn between fixing the world and cannibalizing it. In boisterous prose that ricochets between humor and pain, the four estranged friends stagger through the Bay Areaā€™s maze of tech startups, protestors, gentrifiers, karaoke bars, house parties, and cultish self-help seminars, washing up in each otherā€™s lives once again. 

A wise and searching depiction of a generation grappling with privilege and finding grace in failure, Private Citizens is as expansively intelligent as it is full of heart.

Private Citizens - Tony Tulathimutte

By Tony Tulathimutte

Release Date: 2016-02-09

Genre: Literary Fiction

4 (30 ratings)
Read Download
ā€œScathing, upsetting and generous all at once, this novel, about millennial friends in pre-2008-crash San Francisco, thrums with Tulathimutteā€™s sly intelligence and unerring comic timing. . . . The warm flashes make the satire cut deeper.ā€ ā€”The New York Times, ā€œThe Funniest Novels Since Catch-22ā€ 

"One of the really phenomenal novels I've read in the last decade." ā€”Jonathan Franzen

From a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition, and friendship in millennial San Francisco. With the social acuity of Adelle Waldman and the murderous wit of Martin Amis, Tony Tulathimutteā€™s Private Citizens is a brainy, irreverent debutā€”This Side of Paradise for a new era.

Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century: call it a loving satire. A gleefully rude comedy of manners. Middlemarch for Millennials. The novel's four whip-smart narratorsā€”idealistic Cory, Internet-lurking Will, awkward Henrik, and vicious Lindaā€”are torn between fixing the world and cannibalizing it. In boisterous prose that ricochets between humor and pain, the four estranged friends stagger through the Bay Areaā€™s maze of tech startups, protestors, gentrifiers, karaoke bars, house parties, and cultish self-help seminars, washing up in each otherā€™s lives once again. 

A wise and searching depiction of a generation grappling with privilege and finding grace in failure, Private Citizens is as expansively intelligent as it is full of heart.

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