Bad Teeth

A Novel

by Dustin Long

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Pub Date Mar 25 2014 | Archive Date Apr 25 2014

Description

Four interlocking narratives unfurl in four American cities, creating a richly comic feast about love, academia, an elusive Tibetan novelist who might be a plagiarist, and SOFA, a protest group so mysterious its very initials are open to interpretation.

Bad Teeth follows a cast of young literary men and women in four very American cities—Brooklyn, Bloomington, Berkeley, and Bakersfield. It’s four (or more) books in one, a Pynchonesque treat: a bohemian satire, a campus comedy, a stoner’s reverie, and a quadruple love story. Its wonderfully evoked storylines of young writers—each in a period of formation—collect around the search for one mysterious author—"the Tibetan David Foster Wallace," who might in fact be a plagiarist.

This delightful and complex literary novel is a comic gem.

Four interlocking narratives unfurl in four American cities, creating a richly comic feast about love, academia, an elusive Tibetan novelist who might be a plagiarist, and SOFA, a protest group so...