Indecision A Novel (Paperback)
| Author: Benjamin Kunkel |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
ISBN-10: 0812973755
ISBN-13: 9780812973754
Sku: 202147953
Publish Date: 4/11/2006
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 7.75H x 5.25L x 0.5T
Pages:
241
Age Range:
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| A young man plagued by chronic indecision is "pfired" by Pfizer and journeys to Ecuador in pursuit of an old flame. |
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Facing an early midlife crisis after being fired, twenty-eight-year-old Dwight B. Wilmerding is unable to decide on a new career or on a girlfriend, an indecisiveness that he attempts to alleviate with a trial pharmaceutical aimed at enhancing courage and self-confidence, and heads to Ecuador to search for Natasha, an exotic former classmate. A first novel. |
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This satiric debut, which stars a slacker who is pathologically unable to make up his mind about anything, has drawn comparisons to CATCHER IN THE RYE. Twenty-eight-year-old Dwight Wilmerding has a tough time with every decision, whether it concerns finding a new job after his dull tech-support position at Pfizer gets outsourced to India, the future of his relationship with his girlfriend Vaneethia, or what to do about his troubling feelings for his sister Alice. One of Dwight's roommates offers him some help: a sample of a new drug, Abulinix, designed to treat chronic indecision. Dwight gives it a try just before he takes off for what proves to be a revelatory trip (in several senses) to Ecuador.
This satiric debut, which stars a slacker who is pathologically unable to make up his mind about anything, has drawn comparisons to CATCHER IN THE RYE. Twenty-eight-year-old Dwight Wilmerding has a tough time with every decision, whether it concerns finding a new job after his dull tech-support position at Pfizer gets outsourced to India, the future of his relationship with his girlfriend Vaneethia, or what to do about his troubling feelings for his sister Alice. One of Dwight's roommates offers him some help: a sample of a new drug, Abulinix, designed to treat chronic indecision. Dwight gives it a try just before he takes off for what proves to be a revelatory trip (in several senses) to Ecuador.
Praise
New York Times
"[H]e's funny, Dwight is, and kind of earnest and definitely a lost soul, which in the end, I admit, really sort of gets to you....Old Dwight's book really knocked me out." - Michiko Kakutani 08/23/2005 New York Times Book Review
"INDECISION...manages to make the whole flailing, postadolescent, prelife crisis feel fresh and funny again....If Kunkel had stopped his novel some 20 or 30 pages earlier, he would merely have written the funniest and smartest coming-of-age novel in years. In fact, he seems to be trying to do something more ambitious by somewhat abashedly presenting the birth of a social conscience as a genuinely redemptive moment....[I]t seems to me that Kunkel manages, just barely, to preserve the superb comic tone of the novel, even as he gestures, like some literary voice in the wilderness, toward a hazy new frontier of hip sincerity, of irony subordinated to a higher calling." - Jay McInerney 08/28/2005 Publishers Weekly
"Annoying but accomplished, this entertaining book has screenplay written all over it." 07/18/2005 Kirkus Reviews
"It isn't high art, but it's full of high spirits." 08/29/2005
"[H]e's funny, Dwight is, and kind of earnest and definitely a lost soul, which in the end, I admit, really sort of gets to you....Old Dwight's book really knocked me out." - Michiko Kakutani 08/23/2005 New York Times Book Review
"INDECISION...manages to make the whole flailing, postadolescent, prelife crisis feel fresh and funny again....If Kunkel had stopped his novel some 20 or 30 pages earlier, he would merely have written the funniest and smartest coming-of-age novel in years. In fact, he seems to be trying to do something more ambitious by somewhat abashedly presenting the birth of a social conscience as a genuinely redemptive moment....[I]t seems to me that Kunkel manages, just barely, to preserve the superb comic tone of the novel, even as he gestures, like some literary voice in the wilderness, toward a hazy new frontier of hip sincerity, of irony subordinated to a higher calling." - Jay McInerney 08/28/2005 Publishers Weekly
"Annoying but accomplished, this entertaining book has screenplay written all over it." 07/18/2005 Kirkus Reviews
"It isn't high art, but it's full of high spirits." 08/29/2005
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