Want Not

This novel, a New York Times Notable Book, offers funny and occasionally devastating "portraits of humanity...as beautifully mundane and unique as a fingerprint" (Entertainment Weekly). "Wonderful...the work of a fluid, confident and profoundly talented writer." --Dave Eggers A highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times, Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair--a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father's losing battle with Alzheimer's; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate, whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included. Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something, anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly, randomly, yet irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. "An impassioned work of fiction." --Dallas Morning News

Author: Jonathan Miles
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 05/13/2014
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780544228085
ISBN10: 0544228081
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous | General
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
JONATHAN MILES's first novel, Dear American Airlines, was named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal. He writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review.