{"product_id":"born-slippy-isbn-9781912248643","title":"Born Slippy","description":"\u003cb\u003eA provocative, globe-trotting, time-shifting novel about the seductions of -- and resistance to -- toxic masculinity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Frank knew as well as anyone how stories start and how they end. This fiery mess, or something like it, was bound to happen. He had been expecting it for years.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrank Baltimore is a bit of a loser, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford. One of his workers is a charismatic eighteen-year-old kid from Liverpool, Dmitry, in the US in the summer before university. Dmitry is a charming sociopath, who develops a fascination with his autodidactic philosopher boss, perhaps thinking that, if he could figure out what made Frank tick, he could be less of a pig. Dmitry heads to Asia and makes a neo-imperialist fortune, with a trail of corpses in his wake. When Dmitry's office building in Taipei explodes in an enormous fireball, Frank heads to Asia, falls in love with Dmitry's wife, and things go from bad to worse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining the best elements of literary thriller, noir and political satire, Born Slippy is a darkly comic  and honest meditation on modern life under global capitalism.\"\u003ci\u003eA highly literary and always engaging 21st century noir... Born Slippy confronts contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003equestions about the relativity of evil that no one can dodge.\u003c\/i\u003e\"— \u003cb\u003eChris Kraus\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAfter Kathy Acker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lutz has the seven deadly sins nailed and rethought for our 2020 world. You’ve got to dig this book!\" — \u003cb\u003eJames Ellroy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTom Lutz has written the kind of novel a globetrotting Graham Greene might have written had he lived to trot around our contempo, gone-to-hell globe - now divided into neo-imperialist sociopathic zillionaires, and the rest of us. Born Slippy is smart, dark, funny and, best of all, what used to be called a real page-turner. You’ll love this book.\u003c\/i\u003e\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e— \u003cb\u003eJerry Stahl, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003ePermanent Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI, Fatty\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOld Guy Dad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A smart and propulsive wild ride from the genteel mansions of Hartford Connecticut to the more louche corners of Asia. Lutz's debut is a technicolor noir, a smart, literary and literate thriller—like love child of Elmore Leonard and Graeme Greene. Original and deft and not to be missed.\" — \u003cb\u003eIvy Pochoda\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWonder Valley\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVisitation Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What a pleasure, to sink under the comedic spell of Tom Lutz’s debut novel! The perfect book for a dreary day-- a gleeful, twisty tale of an unlikely friendship. Its antagonist young bloviating Dmitry Heald, with his wild schemes and hair-raising tales, is the guy you can’t trust to go to the market, while the older Frank, his boss, is a man who should know better, and yet can’t resist. Infinitely entertaining. I’d put it on the shelf between Tom Robbins and Martin Amis, if a place can be cleared there.\" — \u003cb\u003eJanet Fitch\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Revolution of Marina M. \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eChimes of a Lost Cathedral\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Born Slippy\u003c\/i\u003e is a whip-smart, whirlwind novel of noir and adventure, humor and horror, cynicism and romance. Lutz's sterling prose and love of literature light up this unique page-turner about the friendship between a man who would be good and the amoral, magnetic narcissist who comes to dominate his life story.\" — \u003cb\u003eSteph Cha\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eYour House Will Pay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An entertaining neo-noir about the wages of greed.\" — \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tom Lutz comes out fast, deep and fully equipped with a mesmerizing debut novel. Every page twists and turns with incredible developments, literary prowess, daring routes and mind-stretching adventures. A task and crew of characters few can take head on and ride all the way to the last thrilling pages.\u003ci\u003e Born Slippy\u003c\/i\u003e won’t slip by the prizes.\" — \u003cb\u003eJuan Felipe Herrera\u003c\/b\u003e, US Poet Laureate 2015-17\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTom Lutz is the author of, amongst others, And the Monkey Learned Nothing, Drinking Mare's Milk on the Roof of the World and Crying, which have been translated into a dozen languages, and several of which have been named New York Times Notable Books. His Doing Nothing won the American Book Award. He is the founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. 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