Meet John Trow
$30.60
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2003
Summary
‘Chucking it all in - all the pointless anxiety, all the buzzing lite crap with which we surround ourselves - is an urge everyone feels, or ought to. In Meet John Trow, Thomas Dyja uses that impulse to drive a novel that’s part satire, part domestic drama, part post-modern ghost story. And the whole thing works like a dream’ - Kurt Andersen
Steven Armour is a man at a crossroad: his rise up the career ladder has slowed to a crawl, and his family is slipping out of control. But life ta…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099449676 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099449676 |
| Author: | Thomas Dyja |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2003 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | A Vintage Original |
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Critics Review
Dyja pulls the past straight into the present with this novel, which manages to be both hilarious and disturbing
Dyja pulls the past straight into the present with this novel, which manages to be both hilarious and disturbing – Erica Wagner * The Times *
Thomas Dyja spins a fascinating tale of a man who tries to solve his problems in the present by immersing himself in the past, with eerie and almost heartbreaking success – Margot Livesey
Dyja has created a modern achetype in Steven Armour, a man in desperate need of some authenticity in his life who, in the end, gets more authenticity than he bargained for – Jonathan Dee
Wondrous, wry and moving… the novel is a joy… as surprising as it is poignant * Washington Post *
Thomas Dyja
Thomas Dyja lives in New York City with his wife and two children. He has written two other novels, Play For a Kingdom and The Moon in Our Hands, as well as a biography of the civil rights pioneer, Walter White.
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