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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Lifeby Mike Albo
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:You can't escape him. He swerves in and out of your life as if effortlessly walking through a crowded restaurant. He's a passive-aggressive master. He's as undetectable as a whisper and as effective as a tiny toxic pill. You probably went to school with him, and he knows everything you've done-every foolish secret ambition you've nurtured, everyone you wish you'd never slept with, every lame, fleeting trend you've embraced. The Underminer throws you into a spiral of self-doubt each time you see him. But...the Underminer is your friend. With this book, Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan channel this hilarious and mysterious evil that we all have encountered. Through 15 years of booming successes and miserable failures, they pursue this powerful "friend" as he slowly and relentlessly dismantles the life of a nameless victim. Here is the subtle slayer of your hopes, the tactful destroyer of your dreams: the Underminer. Review:"The narrator of Mike Albos new novel is a psychological predator of the highest order.[Drawn with] sharpness and hilarity." Review:"Albos jokes punch hard." Review:"Scathingly funny...It's an era made for the Underminer." Review:As seen in The New Yorker (December Fiction issue) and heard on NPR's "This Amerrican Life," here's a poison valentine from that friend who always knows just how to pull the rug out from under you. "Pitch-perfect...The Underminer is a compressed comic classic of New York, a kind of anti-E.B. White fable...Nasty. But fun. And very funny. I started out dog-earing the pages of the galley I laughed most at, but then ended up dog-earing most of the book...I really want all New Yorkers, especially the Underminers among us, to read it."(New York Observer) Review:"Pitch-perfect...The Underminer is a compressed comic classic of Review:".a poets ear, a novelists eye and a speed freaks tongue, Albo is downtowns fast-talking monologist.a wizard with words and refreshingly sweet..." (Paper Magazine)Review:"Albo's jokes punch hard." Review:"Everyone has one: the `friend' who somehow manages to turn every compliment into an incredibly subtle insult.Addictive." Review:"Pitch-perfect...The Underminer is a compressed comic classic of New York.Nasty.. But fun. And very funny."(New York Observer) Review:"It's classified as fiction, but anyone whos lived it will know the novel is anything but imagined." Review:"A treasure.Youll laugh. Youll cry. Youll wince with recognition.Wickedly funny.richly detailed and pitch perfect." Review:"A novel masquerading as a self-help book-or is it a self-help book masquerading as a novel?" Review:"Whether your Underminer is an actual nemesis or merely the voice of a particularly ornery self-loathing, Albo & Heffernan have done humankind the favor of nailing the bastard, with wit and style in excelsis-cringier than a ninth grade PE humiliation, more scouring, compassionate and incisively lamenting of the human condition than a four-day acid trip hosted by Oprah, and hilariously upbraiding of pretentious trends in a way that will make you involuntarily blow your soy-chai frappaccino through your nose. I can think of no more priceless stocking-stuffer for that special insensitive someone. The Underminer beats a bucket of Paxil, six months of therapy and an exorcism-it bestows the healing gift of revenge." (Cintra Wilson)Review:"Fascinating. enormously funny. perfectly pitched.The Underminer is a small voice whispering in your ear, `Read me.'" Review:".a hyperactive monologist with a gift for capturing the most mundane sound bites in modern conversation and juxtaposing them..." (New York Press)About the AuthorMike Albo is a writer and performer who has performed his comedic monologues all over the country and abroad, in cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Toronto, and London. His first novel, Hornito, was published in 2000. Virginia Heffernan, who co-writes with Albo for his performances, is a television critic for the New York Times. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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