Suspension: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (973 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060741376 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 274 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
As a playwright, he was the writer-in-residence for the Working Group. Robert Westfield received his degree in theater and English from Columbia University. He lives in New York.
Though the reader will likely be ahead of Andy in figuring out that both Sonia and Brad are not who they appear to be (the answer lies in a surprising backstory set in Michigan a generation ago), Andy's story is a wild one. Andy goes off the deep end and doesn't leave his apartment for months. . One night, while attending her crummy cabaret show, Andy becomes smitten with Sonia's new mentor, Brad Willet. Andy Green, a Hell's Kitchen denizen, pays the rent by writing tricky multiple-choice questions for an educational testing service and soon finds himself quasi-managing the floundering cabaret career of his
In solitude, he thinks, he might be able to get a grip on his life. Recently, however, his own life has become overwhelmed by wrong choices. A dazzling, remarkably original dark comedy about a young New Yorker's failed attempts to isolate himself in a city that won't take solitude for an answerFor years it's been Andy Green's job to stump students nationwide by coming up with the wrong answers for their multiple-choice tests. When a love affair is mysteriously ended by a Post-it note and followed up by a random street assault, Andy locks himself in his Hell's Kitchen apartment. But when he is forced to reemerge six months after the attacks of September 11, the city awaiting him is more bewildering than ever and all the people in his world seem to be part of a vast conspiracy.Equal parts noir, French farce, and homage to New York, Suspension is a surprisingly heartfelt novel about learning to live in a world where nearly everything is decided behind our backs.
"great new york tale" according to CL. In Robert Westfield's novel "Suspension", a great NYC tale, you get a glimpse of a post-9/11 world through the eyes of Andy Green. After a brutal hate crime, Green nearly loses it as he hides away from the world in his tiny apartment. Slowly, but surely, he realizes that many people in his life are not who they seem as the mystery of why his former lover. good but not great I LOVED the first half of this book, but the second half through me for a loop and it wasn't necessarily a good one. Mostly interesting, good flow, not too pleased with the tone of the second half, but overall a good book. Not sure if I'd recommend.. Suspension Andy Green's job is to create quizzes for educational purposes. As long as he submits his work regularly and shows up in his office occasionally, everyone is happy. Living a simple life, he has a number of good friends, including a rich and exciting boyfriend and seemingly no enemies. One day, however, everything changes and shakes his world up. His sist