Waiting for the Man

by Arjun Basu

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Pub Date Apr 15 2014 | Archive Date Mar 31 2014

Description

Joe, a 35-year-old advertising copywriter for a slick New York company, feels disillusioned with his life. Soon he starts dreaming of a mysterious man and, not long after, begins seeing him on the street and hearing his voice. The voice overwhelms Joe and he starts to listen to it, camping out on the front steps of his stoop, waiting for instructions. The media take note. And soon he has become a story, a media sensation, the centre of a storm. When the voice tells him to “go West,” he does, all the while searching for this Man, this mysterious voice that won’t leave him alone. Until it does.

Waiting for the Man is a compelling and viscerally emotional story about the struggle to find something more in life.

Joe, a 35-year-old advertising copywriter for a slick New York company, feels disillusioned with his life. Soon he starts dreaming of a mysterious man and, not long after, begins seeing him on the...

A Note From the Publisher

Please note that this is an uncorrected galley. The finished book will be available in April 2014.

Advance Praise

"Waiting for the Man is a strangely engrossing, meticulously written allegory of the present moment." — Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X and Worst. Person. Ever.

"With Waiting for the Man, Twitter phenom Arjun Basu breaks free of the 140-character box to pen a novel full of yearning, soulfulness, cool wit, and precise social commentary. It's the expansive work that the Twitter faithful have been waiting for. And their man delivers." — Jonathan Goldstein, host of CBC Radio's WireTap and author of I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow

"Arjun Basu is a master of writing tiny narrative jewels, with surprises built into every single sentence. Waiting for the Man is, somehow, a whole novel full of such surprising and perfect delights." — Stephen Marche, author of Love and the Mess We're In and Raymond + Hannah
"For a novel in part about the cynicism of marketing, this would be hard to pitch in an elevator. How do you ask someone to imagine Waiting for Godot written by an internet-addicted Joseph Heller — or, even less likely, a warm-hearted Bret Easton Ellis? This book is wonderfully hard to pin down. You'll just have to read it for yourself." -Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, author of Down to This and Ghosted

"Waiting for the Man is a strangely engrossing, meticulously written allegory of the present moment." — Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X and Worst. Person. Ever.

"With Waiting for the Man...