Bad Teeth
A Novel
Published on 9. January 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-4778-0113-0 (ISBN)
Description
Four interlocking narratives set in four American cities form a richly comic feast about love, academia, an elusive Tibetan novelist-and SOFA, a protest group so mysterious its very initials are open to interpretation.
Bad Teeth follows a cast of young literary men and women, each in a period of formation, in four very American cities-Brooklyn, Bloomington, Berkeley, and Bakersfield. A Pynchonesque treat, it's four (or more) books in one: a bohemian satire, a campus comedy, a stoner's reverie, and a quadruple love story. The plots coalesce around the search for a mysterious author, Jigme Drolma ("the Tibetan David Foster Wallace"), who might in fact be a plagiarist. But how does the self-styled arch-magician Nicholas Bendix figure into this? What will happen when SOFA unleashes the "Apocalypse"? And what's to become of Lump, the cat?
Bad Teeth follows a cast of young literary men and women, each in a period of formation, in four very American cities-Brooklyn, Bloomington, Berkeley, and Bakersfield. A Pynchonesque treat, it's four (or more) books in one: a bohemian satire, a campus comedy, a stoner's reverie, and a quadruple love story. The plots coalesce around the search for a mysterious author, Jigme Drolma ("the Tibetan David Foster Wallace"), who might in fact be a plagiarist. But how does the self-styled arch-magician Nicholas Bendix figure into this? What will happen when SOFA unleashes the "Apocalypse"? And what's to become of Lump, the cat?
Reviews / Votes
"Long's novel, with its savvy humor, intelligent satire, and rewarding prose, is wildly successful." -Booklist"A literary mash-up that is both a send-up of modern academic life and a heartfelt novel of loves lost and purposes vainly sought...a wondrous, funny, and philosophical novel." -Publishers Weekly
"A group of young writers, scattered from Brooklyn to Berkeley, are all on the hunt for a enigmatic scribe, known as 'the Tibetan David Foster Wallace,' in this comic take on today's literary scene from the author of the bestselling Icelander." -DuJour
"Dustin Long has created a hypnotic and often hilarious kaleidoscope of satirical vengeance, political conspiracy, literary sleuthing, and-last but not least-some old-fashioned sexual neuroses and drug addiction, all culminating in a paean to self-awareness and the interconnectedness of all things." -Matthew Gallaway, author of The Metropolis Case
"Bad Teeth is a smart, funny, tricky, resonant, and exceedingly graceful work. The author's name (remember it!) inspires other four-letter adjectives: Long's prose is surpassingly fine, the humor wise, the feeling deep, the ache real. Bad Teeth glows bright." -Andrew Lewis Conn, author of P and O, Africa!
"This novel is both playful and profound. Long possesses a searching, powerful intellect, and a confident, engaging voice, and I plan on reading everything he writes from now on." -Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Sorry Please Thank You
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Publishing group
Amazon Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4778-0113-0 (9781477801130)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Dustin Long is the author of Icelander. He is currently finishing a Ph.D. in American Literature, and he teaches literature at a private institution in Manhattan. He lives in Brooklyn with his fiancee and son.