TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thirlwell,Adam
TI  - Lurid & cute
SN  - 0374292256 (hbk.)
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Husbands
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Suburban life
KW  - Humorous fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - "A novel"--Jacket; Originally published: Great Britain : Jonathan Cape, 2015; Madama Morte -- Utopia -- Lowdown, Clumsy, Sly, Underhanded -- The Pistolet -- Long Fiesta (The Horoscope) -- Tropicalia -- The Thing Itself -- Time Sadness -- Noir
N2  - "[The narrator] has had the good education, and also the good job. Together with his wife and dog, he lives at home with his parents. But then the lurid overtakes him--a chain of events that feels to those inside it narcotic and neurotic, like one long and terrible descent: complete with lies, deceit, and chicanery, and including, in escalating order, one orgy, one brothel, and a series of firearms disputes"--
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