{"product_id":"rejection-9780063337886b","title":"Rejection","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA Book of the Year in\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New Yorker, NPR, Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Electric Literature\u003c\/span\u003e and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn audacious and original novel-in-stories following a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eSharply observant and outrageously funny, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eRejection \u003c\/span\u003eis a provocative plunge into the thorniest problems of modern life: sex, relationships, identity and the internet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe see a try hard male feminist's passionate ally ship turn to a furious and debilitating nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that his feminism isn’t getting him laid; a young woman’s unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of both her sense of self and her group chat; and witness a shy late bloomer’s flailing efforts at a first relationship lead to a life-upending mistake. As these characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways that our delusions can warp our desire for connection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with the accomplished authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a losers’ manifesto, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eRejection \u003c\/span\u003eby Tony Tulathimutte radically redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and oneself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e‘A book of mad, madcap genius’ GARTH GREENWELL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Tulathimutte is a big talent’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Blistering … takes a magnifying glass to the mind in the internet age’VOGUE\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42825043935312,"sku":"9780063337886B","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780063337886-l.jpg?v=1785899203","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/rejection-9780063337886b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}