{"product_id":"want-not-paperback","title":"Want Not - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Miles\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA\u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book, \u003cem\u003eWant Not\u003c\/em\u003e offers funny and occasionally devastating \"portraits of humanity...as beautifully mundane and unique as a fingerprint.\" \u003cem\u003e(Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Wonderful...the work of a fluid, confident and profoundly talented writer.\" --Dave Eggers \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times, \u003cem\u003eWant Not \u003c\/em\u003eexposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair--a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father's losing battle with Alzheimer's; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate, whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included. Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something, anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly, randomly, yet irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book \u003cbr\u003e A wonderful book, and there s no one I would not urge to read it . . . This is the work of a fluid, confident and profoundly talented writer who gets more fluid, more confident and seemingly more talented even within the book itself. Dave Eggers, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times, Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father s losing battle with Alzheimer s; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate, whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included. \u003cbr\u003eWant and desire propel these characters forward toward something, anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly, randomly, yet irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. \u003cbr\u003e Shrewd, funny, and sometimes devastating . . . What \u003ci\u003eWant Not\u003c\/i\u003e does best, though, isn t plotting but portraits of humanity: the small epiphanies and private hurts of every person whose life, like the detritus they produce, is as beautifully mundane and unique as a fingerprint. \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An impassioned work of fiction. \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e[author photo] Jonathan Miles is a former columnist for the New York Times and a contributing editor to magazines as diverse as Field \u0026amp; Stream and Details. He writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review and Literary Review (UK). A former longtime resident of Oxford, Mississippi, he currently lives with his family in rural New Jersey. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJONATHAN MILES's first novel, \u003ci\u003eDear American Airlines\u003c\/i\u003e, was named a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. He writes regularly for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52797548069169,"sku":"9780544228085","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/aDFGZitQOTh6WnU2WU5BMys4QUxjdz09.webp?v=1770702867","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/want-not-paperback","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}