DEBRIS.COMgood for a laugh, or possibly an aneurysm

A feel-good fable for everyone stuck in a dead-end job, relationship, or life, Tarloff’s book is brilliant, hilarious, and wholly satisfying.

Ezra Gordon’s academic career is in the toilet; to break out of his funk he visits an old college friend on a whim. The friend, it turns out, is a wealthy publisher of pornography, living a life that’s a bachelor’s dream. To help his old pal break out of his writer’s block, Isaac offers Ezra a cash advance toward a “dirty book” manuscript. Ezra accepts the offer, pens a bestseller under a psuedonym, and then his life really begins to twist.

I had a hard time putting this book down. After a number of dime-a-dozen thrillers I found this to be a refreshing blast of intelligent prose, with insightful characters and painfully funny situations.

Also: sex scenes!

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• Amazon (hardback)