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- Pages112
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- Publication dateFebruary, 2010
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Eat When You Feel Sad
Zachary German
All the sad young pop-culture-saturated hyperliterary men mope their way under our skin, one deadpan, declarative sentence at a time.
Eat When You Feel Sad is a novel about Robert. Eat When You Feel Sad is a novel about a generation. Robert was born in the 1980s. He was born in the United States of America. In Eat When You Feel Sad, Robert feeds his cat, watches television and drinks beer. In Eat When You Feel Sad, Robert gets mustard on his clothes, rides a bicycle and talks on Gmail chat. Eat When You Feel Sad takes place in cars, houses, and apartments. Eat When You Feel Sad takes place in a school, a community center, and several Chinese restaurants. Eat When You Feel Sad is a selection of scenes from a life.
Eat When You Feel Sad will be found on a short shelf of short literary novels that includes Bret Easton Ellis’s Less than Zero and Tao Lin’s Eeeee Eee Eeee–where young people seek their own reflection, and face reality with humor and hope.
ZACHARY GERMAN was born on December 17th, 1988, at Shore Memorial Hospital, in Sompers Point, NJ. He has two blogs: zacharygerman.com and thingswhatibought.blogspot.com
”Moving, funny, emotional, and—in a revolutionary way—both highly-readable and avant-garde, Eat When You Feel Sad excites me very much in terms of literature and also life itself.”—Tao Lin
“Zachary German’s nimble, catwalking, archeological, surface dwelling, emotionally unpaved prose is a thing of total wonder and my favorite drug, language-based or otherwise. Eat When You Feel Sad is so bright and pleasurable and full of excellence, it’s positively serene.”—Dennis Cooper
”The deadpan delivery does add humor to Robert’s daily routine, and the unromanticized life of a twenty-something hipster is a refreshing change of pace from the usual way that such creatures are portrayed.”—Publishers Weekly
”A peculiar nugget of pop cultural branding, adolescent confusion, and adult desire…. a new thing, beautiful in its minimalism and disturbing in its awareness…. You will feel Alive.”—Bookslut
