{"product_id":"the-sleep-over-artist-fiction-9780393321715","title":"The Sleep-Over Artist: Fiction","description":"Writing with the sparkling wit and insight of his highly praised debut, \u003cem\u003eSeduction Theory\u003c\/em\u003e (Brilliantly captures the great expectations and recurring ambivalence of youth.--\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e), Thomas Beller continues to plumb the adventures of his hero, Alex Fader, a youthful existentialist and sensualist with an insatiable appetite for trouble. \u003cem\u003eThe Sleep-Over Artist\u003c\/em\u003e is an account of critical stages in Alex's life, mapping his progress from youthful delinquent to filmmaker whose career begins when he makes a documentary film exposing the prep school from which he has been expelled. Alex longs for the taste of family life that the early death of his father has denied him. As a young boy he sleeps over at his friends' houses and ingratiates himself with their families; as a young man he extends his sleep-overs to the lives of women, culminating in the ultimate sleep-over--an affair in England with a glamorous, slightly older woman, the mother of a young boy. Beller has a pitch-perfect ear for emotional nuance and a microscopic eye for rendering the wordless moments when a relationship catches fire and all too often begins to falter. The high-wire tension that electrifies \u003cem\u003eThe Sleep-Over Artist\u003c\/em\u003e is Beller's ingenious portrait of a young man who longs to disappear and belong all at the same time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hilarious....captures perfectly the myriad stages of fear, discovery and elation that mark one's first sexual experience.--\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, Katherine Dieckmann, 16 July 2000 [W]ell-crafted stories recall the witty phrasing of Updike, the poignant nostalgia of Cheever, the earnest but confused innocence of Salinger.--\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e Featuring a New York that, like Kundera's Prague, is a vast hive of seductions....A moving portrait.--\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, 17 April 2000 The gentle humor and delicacy of \u003cem\u003eSleep-Over Artist\u003c\/em\u003e remind me of the stories of another young cosmopolite, F. Scott Fitzgerald.--Stewart O'Nan, author of \u003cem\u003eA Prayer for the Dying\u003c\/em\u003e Fresh, sophisticated and most of all utterly readable...strikes a perfect balance between timely ironies and perennial emotional truths.--Eva Hoffman Tom Beller is gifted with a wry, dry appreciation of life's sweet and unlikely subtleties.--Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of \u003cem\u003eProzac Nation\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBitch\u003c\/em\u003e A fine novel of Manhattan manners.--\u003cem\u003eNew York Observer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393321715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.42h x 5.50w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/18\/2001 pg. 73\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/02\/2001 pg. 89\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Thomas Beller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42737700241589,"sku":"9780393321715","price":20.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2ccfc463-c1c2-4a3c-9959-0a3ccb416e38.jpg?v=1676384725","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-sleep-over-artist-fiction-9780393321715","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}