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You Deserve Nothing
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You Deserve Nothing Paperback - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Maksik, Alexander

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Set in Paris at an international high school catering to the sons and daughters of wealthy, influential families, "You Deserve Nothing" is a gripping story of power, idealism, and morality. In Maksik's stylish prose, Paris is sensual, dazzling, and dangerously seductive.

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  • Title You Deserve Nothing
  • Author Maksik, Alexander
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Europa Editions, Incorporated, New York
  • Date 2011-08-30
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5314202-6
  • ISBN 9781609450489 / 1609450485
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.3 x 1.1 in (20.83 x 13.46 x 2.79 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Teacher-student relationships
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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"One of the most engaged reads I've had in years."-Alice Sebold

"Alexander Maksik deftly evokes the beauty and pathos of Paris, and the story of Will, Gilad and Marie-each compelled towards moral and sexual awakening-is at once dark and luminous. This is a book to be read all at once with a glass of wine in a café or a cup of tea while tucked safely in bed."-A.M. Homes

"You Deserve Nothing is a powerful, absorbing novel about a charismatic expatriate teacher and the students whose lives he transforms, for better and worse. Alexander Maksik is an unusually gifted writer."-Tom Perrotta

"You Deserve Nothing rings true from first page to last. Here is a writer who understands why the artful telling of a difficult story is a brave and important thing to do. Read this book."-John Burnham Schwartz

"A provocative, constantly surprising, and original novel. This is a thrilling debut."-Susanna Moore

"Maksik's superb novel takes on the most fundamental question-how are we supposed to live?-with a freshness and urgency that are nothing short of masterful. This is a gorgeous book, as honest and rich a depiction of life's contradictions as I've encountered in many years."-Ben Fountain

"Alexander Maksik's first novel, You Deserve Nothing, is a thoroughly engaging, passionate, and challenging read that finely walks the line between morality and amorality. In a society, and at a time, when individual identity is so closely tied to collective narcissism, Maksik's novel asks what are the true sources of selfworth? And how shall we live?"-Tom Jenks, editor, Narrative magazineEND

Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2011, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/01/2011, Page 0

About the author

Alexander Maksik is the recipient of a Truman Capote Fellowship and a Teaching/Writing fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He's presently the Provost's Postgraduate Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa. You Deserve Nothing is his first novel. He lives in Paris and Iowa City.

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