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The Unprofessionals: A Novel Paperback - 2008
by Hecht, Julie
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Hecht's first novel revisits the batty, obsessive narrator of her short-story collection "Do the Windows Open?" and chronicles the strange friendship between a photographer in her late 40s and a young man whom she has known since his childhood.
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Details
- Title The Unprofessionals: A Novel
- Author Hecht, Julie
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
- Date 2008-08-12
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # ING9781416564270
- ISBN 9781416564270 / 1416564276
- Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.42 x 6.3 x 0.66 in (21.39 x 16.00 x 1.68 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Friendship
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Friendship
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008023657
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the jacket flap
There is no American writer alive who is funnier, more inquisitive, or more surprising than Julie Hecht. The Unprofessionals, her first novel, whose nameless narrator also told the stories in the author's bestselling collection, Do the Windows Open?, is a mordant triumph. It follows the friendship between the narrator--a photographer in her late forties--and a young man whom she has known since his childhood and who has always shared the narrator's dismay about the way Americans live now: our discount chain stores, our incomprehensible architecture, our preoccupation with pets, our lack of manners. As the narrator takes us through the various stages of this friendship, she also tells the story of the young man's incongruous predicament on his path to heroin addiction and the absurdities of his attempted recovery. The Unprofessionals is in part a masterpiece of comic despair, in part an illumination of the customs and mores of a new and bewildering century, in part a hilarious and sad story of two outsiders who see the world with painful clarity--and, as a whole, a novel of unexampled originality.
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Citations
- New York Times Book Review, 09/07/2008, Page 24
