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Good for Nothing Brandon Graham

Good for Nothing By Brandon Graham

Good for Nothing by Brandon Graham


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Summary

Overweight and weak-willed, Flip Mellis has a self-fulfilling fatalism which leads him to stumble through each day, hoping that he can get a job, mend his marriage and rebuild his life. But in the space of a week, his encounters with characters from American small-town life get in the way of Flip's well-meaning attempts to reform himself.

Good for Nothing Summary

Good for Nothing by Brandon Graham

A novel in which peaks of humour and troughs of tragedy intermingle as Flip Mellis tries to get his life together, after a suicide attempt - like much else in his life - fails to achieve its goal. Overweight, weak-willed, and quick to criticise others, Flip has a self-fulfilling fatalism which leads him to stumble through each day, hoping against hope that he can get a job, mend his marriage and rebuild his life. Perceptively observed characters from American small-town life populate the book in hilarious cameos and get in the way of Flip's well-meaning attempts to reform himself.

Good for Nothing Reviews

"Brandon Graham is a very funny, painfully observant, no-holds-barred American writer. In Good for Nothing he shows us America now: out of work, out of shape, slightly suicidal but retaining a sharp sense of the absurd. This is a brilliant book. When times are really horrible it's good to be able to laugh (especially at ourselves)." Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveller's Wife "[T]his is a very, very funny book. [It] could be the lovechild of Bill Bryson and Martin Amis. And it's peppered with the kind of slick slapstick situation comedy that made the Hangover movies such big hits. But at its heart is a very serious point. It is about the tsunami of destruction that has hit Middle America since the financial crisis." Daily Mail

About Brandon Graham

A Southerner by birth, Brandon S. Graham has lived, worked and studied in eight different states and four different countries, receiving three university degrees. He worked as a commercial pressman and an adjunct professor in Missouri, and as a gallery director in Nebraska. He studied in Budapest and Dijon, with a summer spent as a barman at the Woolpack Inn in Chilham, England. He eventually settled near Chicago where he studied visual and written narrative at Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, graduating with his MFA in 2008. Good For Nothing is his first novel. He lives in Downer's Grove, Illinois with his wife and two children.

Additional information

GOR005831343
9780955181078
0955181070
Good for Nothing by Brandon Graham
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Skyscraper Publications
2014-02-10
324
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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