num_pages: 308
description: One Man one day and a novel bursting with drama comedy and humanity.Kevin Quinn is a standard-variety American middle-aged liberal-leaning self-centered emotionally damaged generally determined to avoid both pain and responsibility. As his relationship with his girlfriend approaches a turning point and his career seems increasingly pointless he decides to secretly fly to a job interview in Austin Texas. Aboard the plane Kevin is simultaneously attracted to the young woman in the seat next to him and panicked by a new wave of terrorism in Europe and the UK. He lands safely with neuroses intact and full of hope that the job the expansive city and the girl from the plane might yet be his chance for reinvention. His next eight hours make up this novel a tour-de-force of mordant humor brilliant observation and page-turning storytelling.
language: English
title: Next
publisher: Reagan Arthur Books