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The Undergraduates

by Steven Snell
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We aren't simply someone's wife, son, employee, boyfriend for a night to a girl in Montreal met tossing paper airplanes from a hotel balcony. In our life we "stumble like drunkards over the sprawling canvas of our self-conception." Our communications are text messages saying "I want you;" "I'll let you know.;" "He's gone, come over!" We interpret and reinterpret our life as we reflect on our past – by choosing and being forced to choose who we are now, that's what we became, what we'll become. We're cobbled together by experiences and truths and lies and hopes and what we didn't do – who we swam naked with in the Mediterranean Sea, who broke our heart, who we let go.Immediate and raw, The Undergraduates traces Shawn's search for meaning, his attempt to place himself in a city, in a job, in a life torn between several schisms. He struggles to recognize the love he had with Gabriella who is only drawing farther and further away. Solace that eludes him, encounters only more tenuous, his path leads him to a devastating truth that he must encounter. Necessary and evocative, The Undergraduates' genius sprouts like a generator running out of fuel that powers the households of Western civilization.The Undergraduates will appeal to readers of Henry Miller, James Frey, Brett Easton Ellis and movie goers of Blue Valentine, Garden State and 500 Days of Summer. Exploring the ennui of a generation reared on a culture of promiscuity, selfishness and moral relativity, The Undergraduates gets under the covers of (with) generation "me," as Christopher Lasch might have said in 1979.
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Publisher: Steven Snell

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  • ISBN: 9781310413926
  • Release date: December 26, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781310413926
  • File size: 344 KB
  • Release date: December 26, 2013

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We aren't simply someone's wife, son, employee, boyfriend for a night to a girl in Montreal met tossing paper airplanes from a hotel balcony. In our life we "stumble like drunkards over the sprawling canvas of our self-conception." Our communications are text messages saying "I want you;" "I'll let you know.;" "He's gone, come over!" We interpret and reinterpret our life as we reflect on our past – by choosing and being forced to choose who we are now, that's what we became, what we'll become. We're cobbled together by experiences and truths and lies and hopes and what we didn't do – who we swam naked with in the Mediterranean Sea, who broke our heart, who we let go.Immediate and raw, The Undergraduates traces Shawn's search for meaning, his attempt to place himself in a city, in a job, in a life torn between several schisms. He struggles to recognize the love he had with Gabriella who is only drawing farther and further away. Solace that eludes him, encounters only more tenuous, his path leads him to a devastating truth that he must encounter. Necessary and evocative, The Undergraduates' genius sprouts like a generator running out of fuel that powers the households of Western civilization.The Undergraduates will appeal to readers of Henry Miller, James Frey, Brett Easton Ellis and movie goers of Blue Valentine, Garden State and 500 Days of Summer. Exploring the ennui of a generation reared on a culture of promiscuity, selfishness and moral relativity, The Undergraduates gets under the covers of (with) generation "me," as Christopher Lasch might have said in 1979.
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Fiction African American Fiction
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