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<p><P>A scathingly funny debut novel about disillusionment, indifference, and one man's desperate fight to assign absolutely no meaning to modern life.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Like many a hip young literary antihero these days, the protagonist of this hilarious if aimless debut is sunk in slacker anomie. Shane has a monotonous temp job at an insurance agency, where he is supposed to alphabetize paperwork but instead spends his time sleeping on the toilet. After work, he is besieged by a gallery of grotesques: a vapid girlfriend who sexually brutalizes him; an absurdly macho neighbor with a leather-clad guinea pig for a sex slave; and his dentist's deaf assistant, who sings atonal karaoke, teaches him to sign obscenities and furnishes a wispy narrative thread by getting murdered. In a world both banal and assaultive, Shane can only drink, steal salt shakers and cultivate his sense of irony; "[t]here's only so much you can do," he shrugs, "and even that's not worth the trouble." Shane's malaise doesn't feel earned; job aside, there are just too many gonzo goings-on-the landlord, for instance, is paying him to have sex with his wife-for him to feel so listless. There's not muc

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Author

Paul Neilan

Publisher

New York: St. Martin's Griffin

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312352196

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Mystery, Humor

Rating

3.83 / 5 (619 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14