Research Catalog

Title

Flatscreen : a novel / Adam Wilson.

Author

Wilson, Adam.

Publication

New York : Harper Perennial, c2012.

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Holdings

Details

Description

330 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Flatscreen tells the story of Eli Schwartz as he endures the loss of his home, the indifference of his parents, the success of his older brother, and the cruel and frequent dismissal of the opposite sex. He is a loser par excellence-- pasty, soft, and high-- who struggles to become a new person in a world where nothing is new. Into this scene of apathy rolls Seymour J. Kahn. Former star of the small screen and current paraplegic sex addict, Kahn has purchased Eli's old family home. The two begin a dangerous friendship, one that distracts from their circumstances but speeds their descent into utter debasement and, inevitably, YouTube stardom. By story's end, through unlikely acts of courage and kindness, roles will be reversed, reputations resurrected, and charges (hopefully) dropped" -- p. [4] of cover.

Alternative Title

Flat screen

Subject

• Losers > Fiction
• Loss (Psychology) > Fiction
• Television actors and actresses > Fiction
• Paraplegics > Fiction
• Friendship > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Humorous stories.
• Humorous fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780062090331 (pbk.)
• 006209033X (pbk.)

OCLC

• 730414111
• SCSB-12437143

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library