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Last Last Chance: A Novel
Maazel, Fiona
2008 10010014 A sprawling debut with an alternately absurdist and sardonic tone, Maazel's debut follows the tribulations of Lucy, a young drug addict who works at a New York City kosher chicken plant. Lucy's father was a Centers for Disease Control bigwig who's recently committed suicide, presumably due to fallout from his perceived role in an outbreak of plague that is spreading across America. Her mother, Isifrid, is a crack-addled gazillionaire, while grandmother Agneth talks incessantly of reincarnation, and younger half-sister Hannah harbors a huge obsession with disease. As the novel opens, Lucy sets off with her alcoholic, over-50 co-worker, Stanley, to attend the wedding of her best friend, Kam--who is marrying Eric, whom Lucy met first and fell in love with. After some hijinks, Lucy heads to a rehab facility in Texas. Over the course of Lucy's wild road trip, Maazel, daughter of conductor Loren, delivers some electric writing: the novel is brimming with wit, ideas and delightfully screwball humor . But the whimsy undermines the story, especially on the abundant substance abuse material. The novel's earnest, surprising conclusion feels out of sync with the zingy, existential banter of its core. (Mar.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review "Read this book now for the sentence-by-sentence brilliance of Maazel's inimitable voice, and enjoy it to the finish for its sophisticated and vulnerable portrayal of survival -- of the individual and the world-at-large, despite so much stacked against both. Maazel was born in 1975, but her imagination has been on fire for 1000 years." -Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End "Somehow Fiona Maazel has made plague funny and the drug recovery narrative, ossified by predictable writers and their wounds, fresh and moving again. Last Last Chance is a stylish first wonder."-Sam Lipsyte "Last Last Chance is not for the faint of heart or dim of humour. It's wicked, witty, a little whacked and surprisingly warm: what more did you want?"-Wesley Stace, author of Misfortune and By George "You have to look to Denis Johnson's JESUS' SON for a narrative voice as darkly funny and drug-inflected as Maazel's. This sprawling, wonderfully digressive novel is up to the task at hand: love at the end of the world as we know it."--Amy Hempel "Fiona Maazel's novel LAST LAST CHANCE turns heartsickness, family dysfunction, substance abuse and a superplague into the sharpest - and most forgiving - comedy you will find between two covers. It is an absurdist generational saga that ranges widely for its wisdom, shows no mercy in its satire, and stakes out hopeful truths to dwell in during troubling times."--Benjamin Anastas, author of AN UNDERACHIEVER'S DIARY and THE FAITHFUL NARRATIVE OF A PASTOR'S DISAPPEARANCE "Vigor in every line and a wit about bodies, drugs and plague that forms a positively original voice of our day." Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0374183856 / 9780374183851
Hardcover As New Condition New York
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