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Penguin Books
November 2018
On Sale: November 6, 2018
368 pages
ISBN: 1101981512
EAN: 9781101981511
Kindle: B01NBAMDT0
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Fiction Family Life | Humor
An ambitious new novel set in the literary world of 1970s
New York, following a washed-up writer in an errant quest to
pick up the pieces of his life. One of Esquire's Best books of 2017 (So Far), The Millions’
Most Anticipated Books of the Second Half of 2017, and
BuzzFeed’s Exciting New Books You Need To Read This Summer The year is 1973, and Alan Eastman, a public intellectual,
accidental cultural critic, washed-up war journalist,
husband, and philanderer; finds himself alone on the floor
of his study in an existential crisis. His wife has taken
their kids and left him to live with her mother in New
Jersey, and his best work feels as though it is years behind
him. In the depths of despair, he receives an unexpected and
unwelcome phone call from his old rival dating back to his
days on the Harvard literary journal, offering him the
chance to go to Vietnam to write the definitive account of
the end of America's longest war. Seeing his opportunity to
regain his wife’s love and admiration while reclaiming his
former literary glory, he sets out for Vietnam. But instead
of the return to form as a pioneering war correspondent that
he had hoped for, he finds himself in Saigon, grappling with
the same problems he thought he'd left back in New York. Following his widely acclaimed debut, From the Memoirs of
a Non-Enemy Combatant, Alex Gilvarry employs the same
thoughtful, yet dark sense of humor in Eastman Was
Here to capture one irredeemable man's search for
meaning in the face of advancing age, fading love, and a
rapidly-changing world.
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