{"product_id":"fuccboi-9781472293145","title":"Fuccboi","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Got under my skin in the way the best writing can'' SHEILA HETI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism, from an electrifying new voice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in Philly one year into Trump''s presidency, Sean Thor Conroe''s audacious, freewheeling debut follows our eponymous fuccboi, Sean, as he attempts to live meaningfully in a world that doesn''t seem to need him. Reconciling past, failed selves -- cross-country walker, SoundCloud rapper, weed farmer -- he now finds himself back in his college city, trying to write, doing stimulant-fueled bike deliveries to eat. Unable to accept that his ex has dropped him, yet still engaged in all the same fuckery -- being coy and spineless, dodging decisions, maintaining a rotation of baes -- that led to her leaving in the first place. But now Sean has begun to wonder, how sustainable is this mode? How much fuckery is too much fuckery?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in a riotous, utterly original idiom, and sly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerse and intense and new and sort of fucked up but knowingly so.\u003c\/b\u003e I loved it -- Tommy Orange, author of THERE THERE\u003cbr\u003eA book to argue and laugh with; be appalled and impressed by. \u003ci\u003eFuccboi\u003c\/i\u003e wrestles with big questions about masculinity and modernity, but best of all are its intimate and domestic moments: \u003cb\u003elike Knausgaard, Conroe has a knack for making the mundane enthralling\u003c\/b\u003e -- Chris Power, author of A LONELY MAN\u003cbr\u003eDare I be so despotic as to proclaim Fuccboi a necessary novel? You bet I do. \u003cb\u003eHow brilliant to finally have a novel that examines contemporary masculinity with such candour, with such humour and style as to immediately read like a modern classic. \u003c\/b\u003eSean Thor Conroe is a real one -- Barry Pierce * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA blistering debut\u003c\/b\u003e * i-D magazine *\u003cbr\u003eA debut coming-of-age (but probably not in the traditional sense!) novel about hypocrisy and self-awareness * Nylon *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eConroe's writing percolates with savage humour and wry observations on human complexity\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Conroe works with a really rare audacity and slyness -- Anna Cafolla * AnOther Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdmirably fresh \u003c\/b\u003e. . . [Conroe is] \u003cb\u003ethoughtful, insecure and questing. \u003c\/b\u003eAnd he has\u003cb\u003e a distinctive, compelling voice that strikes me as utterly of its moment, of \u003ci\u003ethis \u003c\/i\u003emoment \u003c\/b\u003e. . . A  genuine attempt to speak to some of those who don't normally give a shit about books, or at least, those who don't read \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e -- while also being worth the attention of those who do. -- Jay McInerney, author of BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFuccboi\u003c\/i\u003e's main claim to newness lies in the narrator's middle-way attitude to the ball-aching social justice religion that clogs the air of American cultural life . . . \u003cb\u003eThe internalized contradictions of his dementing culture manifest in amusing ways \u003c\/b\u003e. . . I enjoyed being led through the vagaries of Sean's 'sus hetero bro' existence and appreciated his attempt to do what in 2020s America is tricky verging on taboo:\u003cb\u003e to write like a man, not an ideal.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Rob Doyle, author of THRESHOLD * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eModern mores and a certain type of twentysomething male energy clash colourfully in the vibrant voice of this debut novel\u003c\/b\u003e * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of literature's most exciting new voices . . . explosive.\u003c\/b\u003e Fuccboi has crawled up people's backsides in a way only the best fiction does, especially when it holds a mirror up to the cultural zeitgeist. -- Jade Wickes * The Face *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFresh prose, colloquial and poetic\u003c\/b\u003e * Vanity Fair *\u003cbr\u003eConroe confronts the anxieties at the \u003ci\u003eFuccboi\u003c\/i\u003e's core, with \u003cb\u003everve, humour and empathy\u003c\/b\u003e. It's essentially \u003cb\u003ea bildungsroman for a generation of disaffected men\u003c\/b\u003e * Hunger *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe novel is about something more interesting than sex.\u003c\/b\u003e It's an account of a highly specific crack-up, and a largely self-inflicted one, though a few of the usual suspects, among them capitalism and the American healthcare system, share some of the blame. -- Christian Lorentzen * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eThe infectious vigour of Conroe's \u003cb\u003eshow-stealing voice\u003c\/b\u003e means \u003ci\u003eFuccboi \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003elands like a grenade in the ecosystem of better-mannered literary fiction\u003c\/b\u003e -- Anthony Cummins * Metro *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJe suis Fuccboi\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003eSo much of the novel's success lay in its ability to invoke a feeling of often disquieting recognition\u003c\/b\u003e . . . [Conroe] creates a bridge, a conversation, and I see my own feelings reflected in his, despite the differences in how our respective feelings have emerged. \u003cb\u003eIf a gender divide indeed exists, finally it feels surmountable.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Huda Awan * Review 31 *\u003cbr\u003e[Conroe's protagonist's] crisis of masculinity is also modern America's crisis of masculinity. If men are still choking on the toxicity of historical conventions of gender, then \u003cb\u003eliterature should be a welcoming space for exploring, questioning and airing the \"savage, ugly, testosterone-fuelled, shameful\" things that we would all rather repress - regardless of gender\u003c\/b\u003e -- Katie Goh * The Skinny *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMesmerizing \u003c\/b\u003e. . . Our narrator's slangy bravado may be a little cringey and his hypermasculinity just a bit sus, but he is also \u003cb\u003eendlessly charming\u003c\/b\u003e, particularly in his willingness to mock his own swaggering persona -- Alec Gewirtz * LA Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eIt's hard to give a sense of how \u003cb\u003efunny, clever and infectious\u003c\/b\u003e Conroe's writing can be: \u003cb\u003ehow supple an instrument this voice is, how rhythmically and cumulatively rewarding when it feeds off its own energy. \u003c\/b\u003eFor internal riffs we could be in the absurd, side-shuffling mind of \u003cb\u003eone of George Saunders's characters\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Jonathan McAloon * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eIn an age of quick intolerance and polarised positions, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFuccboi \u003c\/i\u003edelivers a nuanced account of the darker, more desperate attitudes of the young hetero-male today\u003c\/b\u003e; those flagrant tendencies not excusable, but which might be understood as rooted in, say, insecurity and poverty (of the financial-social-educational-emotional kinds) -- Fi Churchman * Art Review *\u003cbr\u003eGot under my skin in the way the best writing can -- Sheila Heti, author of MOTHERHOOD\u003cbr\u003eSean Conroe isn't one of the writers there's a hundred of. We won't tell somebody 'Sean Conroe' when we meant to say the name of another writer we got confused with Sean Conroe. He writes what's his own, his own way -- Nico Walker, author of CHERRY\u003cbr\u003eBlazes a sonic trail through the tangles of experience. A contemporary künstleroman - a coming of age of an artist. So much about the struggle to find a nourishing and communally beneficial but still honest and not self-suppressing way to be a man -- Sam Lipsyte, author of HARK\u003cbr\u003eA completely unique voice . . . sounds like no one I know -- Scott McClanahan, author of THE SARAH BOOK\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headline Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408741245271,"sku":"9781472293145","price":14.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472293145.jpg?v=1730504029","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fuccboi-9781472293145","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}