Born Slippy
by Tom Lutz
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Pub Date Jan 14 2020 | Archive Date Nov 17 2021
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Description
"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."
Frank 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.
Combining 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.
The debut novel from the founder and Editor-In-Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books
A Note From the Publisher
The debut novel from the founder and Editor-In-Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books
Advance Praise
"A highly literary and always engaging 21st century noir... Born Slippy confronts contemporary questions about the relativity of evil that no one can dodge."
— Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick and After Kathy Acker
An instant, finely wrought story of friendship, ingenuity, and blithe evil. Lutz has the seven deadly sins nailed and rethought for our 2020 world. You’ve got to dig this book!”
— James Ellroy, author of L.A. Confidential
“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. I’d put it on the shelf between Tom Robbins and Martin Amis, if a place can be cleared there.”
— Janet Fitch, author of The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral
“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 the love child of Elmore Leonard and Graeme Greene. Original and deft and not to be missed.”
— Ivy Pochoda, author of Wonder Valley and Visitation Street
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.”
— Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight, I, Fatty, and Old Guy Dad
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781912248643 |
| PRICE | $18.95 (USD) |
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