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2000ft Above Worry Level
Paperback Edition: 1
Everything is sad and funny and nothing is anything else.
2000ft Above Worry Level begins on the sad part of the internet and ends at the top of a cliff face. This episodic novel is piloted by a young, an hedonic, gentle, slightly disassociated man. He has no money. He has a supportive but disintegrating family. He is trying hard to be better. He is painting a never-ending fence.
Eamonn Marra's debut novel occupies the precarious spaces in which many twenty-somethings find themselves, forced as they are to live in the present moment as late capitalism presses in from all sides. Mortifying subjects - loserdom, depression, unemployment, cam sex - are surveyed with dignity and stoicism. Behind Marra's precise, unemotive language, and behind his characters steadfast grip on the surface of things, real feeling bubbles through.
Pages : 208
Publisher : Te Herenga Waka University Pre
Publication date : 2020-02-14
Subjects: Fiction, Published in New Zealand, NZ Fiction, Historical Fiction