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Last Resort

By: Andrew Lipstein
Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
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Named a Best Book of 2022 by the New Yorker

Named a Top 10 Book of the Year by Slate

A New York Times Editors' Choice

Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

Caleb Horowitz is 27, and his wildest dreams are about to come true. His manuscript has caught the attention of the literary agent, who offers him fame, fortune and a taste of the literary life. He can't wait for his book to be shopped around to every editor in New York, except one: Avi Dietsch, a college rival and the novel's 'inspiration'.

When Avi gets his hands on the manuscript, he sees nothing but theft—and opportunity. And so Caleb is forced to make a Faustian bargain, one that tests his theories of success, ambition and the limits of art.

©2022 Andrew Lipstein (P)2022 Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Biographical Fiction City Life Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Urban New York Biography

Critic Reviews

"If Less by Andrew Sean Greer left a hole in your life, good news: Last Resort will fill it. Fast and funny, it feels like a backstage pass to the book world." (Meg Mason)

"I finished it in a day." (Nell Zink)

"A sharply written, headlong romp." (Lionel Shriver)

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