The Slippage: A Novel (P.S.) - Tapa blanda

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"In The Slippage, Ben Greenman illuminates the strange, electric moments that lurk in the seemingly ordinary milieus of the suburban kitchen, the married bedroom. With compassion and dark humor, Greenman brings the absurdity and grace of marriage vividly to life."--Laura van den Berg, author of What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us

"Ben Greenman's The Slippage is a slyly funny and heartbreaking portrait of suburban American marriage, like an update of John Cheever in an age of smartphones and rampant corporate greed. This stellar novel asks whether it's ever possible to see clearly-in love, life, or art."--Luis Jaramillo, author of The Doctor's Wife

"Reminiscent of the greatest, elegiac work of William Maxwell, Greenman's book is a reminder of the ways we fail, in love, and find grace in even that failure. This is truly a beautiful book."--Pauls Toutonghi, author of Evel Knievel Days and Red Weather

"The Slippage is a terrific novel, a wry and affecting depiction of an America adrift in its tidy cul de sacs of anxiety, lust, and disappointment. Ben Greenman writes crackling dialogue, brilliant characters, and sentences so sharp they hurt."--Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins and We Live in Water

"Greenman has a knack for chronicling the uncertain angst of suburban life. . . [He] has crafted one of the more surprising and remarkable opening scenes in this year's bumper crop of contemporary realism."--Kansas City Star

"Perceptive."--Publishers Weekly

"Greenman's latest shout-inducing (angst-ridden and damned funny) novel, The Slippage, [is] a wry, wistful tale of marriage, lust, and disconnection."--PopMatters.com

"Mr. Greenman conjures the world of his characters in transporting detail . . . [His] keen descriptions, coupled with Mr. Greenman's wry wit and inventive turns of phrase[, ] are antidotes to the bleak narrative and make this novel difficult to put down."--New York Observer

"Ben Greenman fascinatingly explores marriage malaise and suburban sadness. . . . Greenman brilliantly teases out the ache and tenacity underneath the everyday grind of the Days and the couples they know. . . . Greenman's suburbs are lush with longing, and he captures solitude with an expert's strokes."--Interview

"Ben Greenman, prolific writer of experimental fiction, has written his own version of the Great American Novel."--The Rumpus

Reseña del editor

The Slippage is a wry, wistful tale of marriage, lust, and disconnection from Ben Greenman, the critically acclaimed author of What He’s Poised to Do.

William Day must confront some uncomfortable truths about his life and his future when his wife Louisa asks him to build her house. The take-it-or-leave-it demand becomes all the more difficult to swallow when he finds himself grappling with a past recklessness, an ex-girlfirend’s son he considers his own, and his own wants for what lies ahead.

Sure to appeal to everyone who has ever been in love and had their heart broken, The Slippage shares uncanny truths about intimacy and modern relationships.