The Resource The future won't be long : a novel, Jarett Kobek
The future won't be long : a novel, Jarett Kobek
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- Summary
- ""A swirling, name-dropping, drug-fueled, hypersaturated whirlwind of a novel set against the New York City of the 1980s and '90s, Kobek's latest is a gritty coming-of-age story with quiet heart. An ode to a city--and an era--long gone." --Kirkus Reviews "Ambitious. Kobek crafts an electric tale, and the wilds of New York City during this intense time period provide a gritty, undeniably magnetic context." --Booklist A euphoric, provocative novel about friendship, sex, art, clubbing, and ambition set in 1980s and '90s New York City, from the author of I Hate the Internet When Adeline, a wealthy art student, chances upon a young man from the Midwest known only as Baby in a shady East Village squat, the two begin a fiery friendship that propels them through a decade of New York life. In the apartments and bars of downtown Manhattan to the infamous nightclub The Limelight, Adeline is Baby's guardian angel, introducing him to a city not yet overrun by gentrification. They live through an era of New York punctuated by the deaths of Warhol, Basquiat, Wojnarowicz, and Tompkins Square Park. Adeline is fiercely protective of Baby, even bringing him home with her to Los Angeles, but he soon takes over his own education. Once just a kid off the bus from Wisconsin, Baby relishes ketamine-fueled clubbing nights and acid days in LA, and he falls deep into the Club Kid twilight zone of sexual excess. As Adeline develops into the artist she never really expected to become and flees to the nascent tech scene in San Francisco, Baby faces his own desire for artistic expression and recognition. He must write his way out of clubbing life, and their friendship, an alliance that seemed nearly impenetrable, is tested and betrayed, leaving each unmoored as the world around them seems to be unraveling. Riotously funny and wise, The Future Won't Be Long is an ecstatic, propulsive novel coursing with a rare vitality, an elegy to New York and to the relationships that have the power to change--and save--our lives"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The future won't be long : a novel
- Title
- The future won't be long
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Jarett Kobek
- Title variation
- future wont be long
- Subject
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- FICTION / Coming of Age
- trueLos Angeles, California
- Man-woman relationships
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- trueNew York City
- trueNightclubs
- trueNightlife
- truePartying
- trueAmbition
- trueArt students
- trueArtists
- trueBetrayal
- trueCalifornia
- trueCelebrities
- City and town life
- City and town life -- Fiction
- trueCity life
- trueDrugs
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Urban Life
- Fiction
- trueFriendship
- Friendship
- Friendship -- Fiction
- trueGay college students
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- ""A swirling, name-dropping, drug-fueled, hypersaturated whirlwind of a novel set against the New York City of the 1980s and '90s, Kobek's latest is a gritty coming-of-age story with quiet heart. An ode to a city--and an era--long gone." --Kirkus Reviews "Ambitious. Kobek crafts an electric tale, and the wilds of New York City during this intense time period provide a gritty, undeniably magnetic context." --Booklist A euphoric, provocative novel about friendship, sex, art, clubbing, and ambition set in 1980s and '90s New York City, from the author of I Hate the Internet When Adeline, a wealthy art student, chances upon a young man from the Midwest known only as Baby in a shady East Village squat, the two begin a fiery friendship that propels them through a decade of New York life. In the apartments and bars of downtown Manhattan to the infamous nightclub The Limelight, Adeline is Baby's guardian angel, introducing him to a city not yet overrun by gentrification. They live through an era of New York punctuated by the deaths of Warhol, Basquiat, Wojnarowicz, and Tompkins Square Park. Adeline is fiercely protective of Baby, even bringing him home with her to Los Angeles, but he soon takes over his own education. Once just a kid off the bus from Wisconsin, Baby relishes ketamine-fueled clubbing nights and acid days in LA, and he falls deep into the Club Kid twilight zone of sexual excess. As Adeline develops into the artist she never really expected to become and flees to the nascent tech scene in San Francisco, Baby faces his own desire for artistic expression and recognition. He must write his way out of clubbing life, and their friendship, an alliance that seemed nearly impenetrable, is tested and betrayed, leaving each unmoored as the world around them seems to be unraveling. Riotously funny and wise, The Future Won't Be Long is an ecstatic, propulsive novel coursing with a rare vitality, an elegy to New York and to the relationships that have the power to change--and save--our lives"--
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- 10572966
- Cataloging source
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- Kobek, Jarett
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Man-woman relationships
- City and town life
- Friendship
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Urban Life
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- City and town life
- Friendship
- Man-woman relationships
- Label
- The future won't be long : a novel, Jarett Kobek
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1827920
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 399 pages
- Isbn
- 9780735222489
- Lccn
- 2017025377
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780735222489
- (OCoLC)992989621
- Label
- The future won't be long : a novel, Jarett Kobek
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1827920
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 399 pages
- Isbn
- 9780735222489
- Lccn
- 2017025377
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780735222489
- (OCoLC)992989621
Subject
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- trueLos Angeles, California
- Man-woman relationships
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- trueNew York City
- trueNightclubs
- trueNightlife
- truePartying
- trueAmbition
- trueArt students
- trueArtists
- trueBetrayal
- trueCalifornia
- trueCelebrities
- City and town life
- City and town life -- Fiction
- trueCity life
- trueDrugs
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Urban Life
- Fiction
- trueFriendship
- Friendship
- Friendship -- Fiction
- trueGay college students
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