Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2013.
Both scathing invective on a self-obsessed generation and moving account of love and loneliness, 'Idiopathy' skewers everything from militant environmentalists to self-help quackery and announces the arrival of a savagely funny talent.
A debut novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattle Idiopathy (?d?'?p i): a disease or condition which arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown. Idiopathy is a novel that is as unexpected as its title, in which Katherine, Daniel, and Nathan--three characters you won't forget in a hurry--unsuccessfully try to figure out how they feel about one another and how they might best live their lives in a world gone mad. Featuring a mysterious cattle epidemic, a humiliating stint in rehab, an unwanted pregnancy, a mom-turned-media personality ("Mother Courage"), and a workplace with a bio-dome housing a perfectly engineered cornfield, it is at once a scathing satire and a moving meditation on love and loneliness. With unusual verbal finesse and great humor, Sam Byers neatly skewers the tangled relationships and unhinged narcissism of a self-obsessed generation in a remarkable, uproarious first novel.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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A debut novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattle Idiopathy (?d?'?p i): a disease or condition which arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown. Idiopathy is a novel that is as unexpected as its title, in which Katherine, Daniel, and Nathan--three characters you won't forget in a hurry--unsuccessfully try to figure out how they feel about one another and how they might best live their lives in a world gone mad.
Idiopathy features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Debut Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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Idiopathy was written by Sam Byers and published by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl an imprint of St. Martins Press-3PL
Idiopathy has 320 pages
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