03285cam a2200325 4500 522587965 TxAuBib 20210905120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780544114630 0544114639 B00FBGQAJ8 Amazon f91159f8-299d-47da-b675-992b0bfb7fca OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1433543 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Miles, Jonathan. Want Not [Libby]. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2262kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p><b>A "</b><b>shrewd, funny, and sometimes devastating" novel about the things we desire and the things we throw away (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>).</b><br /> <br /> A New York Times Notable Book<br /> <br /> A highly inventive, corrosively funny story of our times, <i>Want Not</i> exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair—a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father's losing battle with Alzheimer's; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate, whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included. Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something, anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly, randomly, yet irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned.<br /> <br /> "Its pleasures are endless."—Joshua Ferris, author of <i>Then We Came to the End</i><br /> <br /> "Terrific...The novel may begin with prickly satire, it may dig deep into America's disposable lifestyle, but it ultimately pivots to scenes of surprising tenderness...a novel to hoard."—<i>The Washington Post</i><br /> <br /> "Leaps nimbly from topic to topic...from freeganism to conspicuous consumption; from Manhattan's Alphabet City to residential New Jersey to the backwoods of Tennessee; and from neighbors with nothing but geographical location in common to sisters who share nothing but blood....Sitting down with <i>Want Not</i> is like finding yourself opposite the most interesting person at a dinner party. It pulls you in immediately; makes you shake your head in wonder and delight at your new companion's wit, originality, and compelling turns of phrase; and, best of all, surprises you into laughter."—<i>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</i><br /> <br /> "For readers who relish extravagant language, scathing wit and philosophical heft, <i>Want Not</i> wastes nothing."—<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> (starred review)</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:20:50. https://samples.overdrive.com/want-not?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/want-not?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/want-not?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXTLL