Important Things That Don't Matter

A Novel

by David Amsden

On Sale: 03/30/2004

Important Things That Don't Matter

A Novel

by David Amsden

On Sale: 03/30/2004

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About the Book

So Dad's around lately. That's it. And I want to tell you things, throw fragments your way that I barely understand. Because it's just funny, flat out, the way someone you don't even know can get up in your face, tweak things that should be so ordinary. Or I think it's funny. Maybe you will too.

Hailed by The New Yorker as "a fictional report from the strip-mall front lines of Generation Y," Important Things That Don't Matter is a provocative, moving, darkly funny portrait of family and divorce, a boy and his father, the eighties and nineties, and sex and intimacy that raises vital questions about a generation just now reaching adulthood.

Critical Praise

“Hypnotically engaging and almost painfully genuine...an extremely talented writer.” — Salon

“You’ve got to hate this guy. He’s already been called the voice of his generation.” — New York Times

“The novel’s so real and personal it’s like being in this Gen Y kid’s skin for 15 formative years.” — Entertainment Weekly

“...so refreshingly un-Generation X...” — Los Angeles Times

“David Amsden is an invigorating, original, and sickeningly talented writer.” — Augusten Burroughs, author of Running With Scissors

“Absorbing...a daring narrative that resonates with the heartbreaking emotion that lurks between Amsden’s sharply written lines.” — BookPage

“There are moments of literary brilliance in this story that will dazzle the reader.” — John Searles, author of Boy Still Missing

“Nothing short of phenomenal!” — Nick Fowler, author of A Thing (Or Two) About Curtis and Camilla

“Really, really great...close-to-the-nerve honesty, severe suffering, intertwined with that leavening cynical humor.” — J.T. Leroy, author of Sarah

“The narrator’s voice is a likable mixture of bewilderment and tentative black humor...well cast and darkly ironic.” — Publishers Weekly

“Conversational and tough, the novel’s observant narrator is bound to captivate readers.” — Booklist

“This book is a complete winner. Smart, charming, fresh, compelling--Amsden is a writer with enormous talent.” — Bill Buford, author of Among the Thugs

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Product Details

  • ISBN: 9780060513894
  • ISBN 10: 0060513896
  • Imprint: William Morrow Paperbacks
  • On Sale: 03/30/2004
  • Pages: 272
  • List Price:17.50 CAD
  • BISAC1 : FICTION / Family Life
  • BISAC2 : FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce
  • BISAC3 : FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor
  • BISAC4 : FICTION / Coming of Age
  • BISAC5 : FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century

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