All the sad young literary men
By: by Keith Gessen
Publisher: William Heinemann
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780434017614; 9780434018482
Subjects: Young men; Fiction
Description: In All The Sad Young Literary Men Gessen charts the lives of Mark, Keith, and Sam as they over-process their college days, under-process relationships past and present, and pathetically as well as triumphantly struggle their way through a web of women who love them and loathe them, in search for a sense of maturity, responsibility and literary (or other) fame." "Newly divorced and heartbroken in his university town of Syracuse, Mark attempts to center his life around his graduate work on the Russian Revolution and ends up being seduced by internet dating and online porn. Sam s on a mission to write "the first great Zionist epic" even though he couldn&#x2019;t say a Hebrew word if you paid him, hasn&#x2019;t yet made it to Israel, and is not a practicing Jew. Obsessive self-Googler and avid dater after a string of failed relationships, Sam learns what it feels like to be just another name on a list of sexual encounters. And then there s more serious and sensitive Keith who is thwarted by inherited notions of resilience and greatness, by memories of his broken family, and muddles his way into the arms of the selfless woman he meets in Brooklyn.