The Minor Outsider

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Pub Date Jun 27 2017 | Archive Date Feb 27 2017
Pushkin Press | ONE / Pushkin
General Fiction (Adult) | Literary Fiction

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Ed and Taylor, both aspiring young writers, fall in love during a summer of aimless drinking and partying in their university town of Missoula, Montana. Lonely and looking for love, they connect despite their profound differences: Ed is brooding, ambitious and self-destructive, living in denial of a mysterious tumour spreading from his limbs to his brain. Beautiful Taylor is positive, full of hope and emotional generosity, but like everyone, she has her limits. Their difficult relationship is intense, exciting yet doomed from the start, complicated further when Taylor falls pregnant. As Ed resists the harmony she brings to his life, Taylor's need to protect herself and their child also grows, until a dramatic finale.


Ted Mc Dermott's stark book speaks truthfully and with a touch of dark humor for and to today's generation of young people trying to find hope in what feels to many like an existential void. The Minor Outsider will be read as the young literary voice of our dark times.

Ed and Taylor, both aspiring young writers, fall in love during a summer of aimless drinking and partying in their university town of Missoula, Montana. Lonely and looking for love, they connect...

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Advance Praise

   • "McDermott writes about academia and small-town America with an enjoyable mix of cynicism and affection... a hip, touching and thoroughly readable story that presents young adulthood as a frustrating, alien place." - Guardian 

   • "McDermott is sharp on the indulgences of the creative set and, above all, portraying the life of many young men - drifting, hard to reach, doomed to try to make sense of a world that resists all explanation and interpretation." - Financial Times 

   • "There is a Russian-roulette effect to the storytelling that will keep readers turning the page... impressive, focusing on life's contradictions and absurdities." - Irish Times 

   • "Vivid, fast-paced prose... a fresh, spirited debut set against a stunning backdrop." - Big Issue in the North 

   • "Quite brilliant. An honest unflinching account of a man and his frailties." - Irish Examiner 

   • "Marks the emergence of a formidable talent... [Ted McDermott] demonstrates a vision that leaves the reader eager for more." - The Lady 

   • "A major debut. McDermott's witty and stirring love story tracks so many of the wonderful ways we doom our happiness. It's thrillingly sad! And quite funny." - Sam Lipsyte

• "McDermott writes about academia and small-town America with an enjoyable mix of cynicism and affection... a hip, touching and thoroughly readable story that presents young adulthood as a...

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ISBN 9780992918279
PRICE $16.00 (USD)
PAGES 224

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