The Suitors: A Novel - Softcover

Ehrenreich, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156031833 ISBN 13: 9780156031837

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2007

Synopsis

This audacious reimagining of The Odyssey finds Penny home alone while Payne, a modern-day Odysseus, gallivants around the world on battleships and attack helicopters, waging wars of conquest. A drinking, drugging crew of ne’er-do-well squatters surrounds Penny, eager for her attention. Even their most eyebrow-raising exploits can’t distract her, though, as she angrily pines for Payne. But when a mysterious man with suspicious origins arrives on the scene, the suitors’ precarious pecking order falls to pieces in the glow of Penny’s newly ignited ardor.

Brutal, playful, sexy, and subversive, The Suitors is a classic of its own kind.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"A unique, powerful new voice full of passion."?Etgar Keret, author The Nimrod Flipout

This audacious re-imagining of The Odyssey finds Penny home alone while Payne, a modern-day Odysseus, wages wars of conquest. Angrily pining for Payne, Penny is oblivious to even the most eyebrow-raising exploits of the ne’re-do-wells who court her?until a mysterious visitor appears and the suitors’ precarious pecking order falls violently to pieces. Brutal, playful, sexy, and subversive, The Suitors is a classic of its own kind.

"Ehrenreich blends Tom Robbins’ sly humor with Steve Erickson’s bubbling sense of the subconscious and Voltaire’s irreverent twists of plot."?Los Angeles Times

"Compelling . . . Ehrenreich evokes a sense of decay and destruction, of a decadent empire in collapse?a hybrid of antiquity and our own contemporary America."?Seattle Weekly

"Ehrenreich writes with an ease and pure line-by-line skill that’s rare."?New York Times

Ben Ehrenreich is a journalist whose writing has appeared in L.A. Weekly, the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times Book Review, and many other publications. He lives in Los Angeles.

About the Author:

BEN EHRENREICH is a journalist whose writing has appeared in LA Weekly, the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times Book Review, and many other publications. He lives in Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0156031833
• ISBN 13: 9780156031837
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 293