{"product_id":"the-great-man-theory-hardcover","title":"The Great Man Theory - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTeddy Wayne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAt its finest, a worthy successor to those seriocomic novels of Bellow.\" -Brandon Taylor, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by \u003ci\u003eEsquire, LitHub, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePublisher's Lunch, Dandelion Chandelier, and Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom acclaimed, Whiting Award-winning author Teddy Wayne, the hilarious, incisive, yet deeply poignant story of a liberal armchair-revolutionary desperate to save America from itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaul is a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, a divorced but doting Brooklyn father, and a self-desc-ribed \"curmudgeonly crank\" cataloging his resentment of the priorities of modern life in a book called \u003ci\u003eThe Luddite Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e. Outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, he is determined to better the future for his young daughter, one aggrieved lecture at a time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShockingly, others aren't very receptive to Paul's scoldings. His child grows distant, preferring superficial entertainment to her father's terrarium and anti-technological tutelage. His careerist students are less interested than ever in what he has to say, and his last remaining friends appear ready to ditch him. To make up for lost income, he moonlights as a ride-share driver and moves in with his elderly mother, whose third-act changes confound and upset him. As one indignity follows the next, and Paul's disaffection with his circumstances and society mounts, he concocts a dramatic plan to right the world's wrongs and give himself a more significant place in it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDyspeptically funny, bubbling over with insights into America's cultural landscape and a certain type of cast-aside man who wants to rectify it, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Man Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of a brilliant, original writer at the height of his powers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTeddy Wayne\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eApartment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLoner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Love Song of Jonny Valentine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKapitoil\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the winner of a Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, the PEN\/Bingham Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A former columnist for the\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e and a frequent contributor to\u003ci\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, he has taught at Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.16 x 9.35 x 6.42 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 12, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766927556896,"sku":"9781635578720","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7b17b1e48a9d240316ac422f22775117.webp?v=1780301100","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-great-man-theory-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}