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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsHot Pinkby Adam Levin
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Adam Levin's debut novel The Instructions was one of the most buzzed about books of 2010, a sprawling universe of "death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth" (Rolling Stone).
Now, in the stories of Hot Pink, Levin delivers nine smaller worlds, snow-globes of overweight romantics, legless prodigies, quixotic dollmakers, textbook lovers, dirty old men, insecticidal fathers, nervous comedians, angry mimes, and a dumptruck covered with balloons—all shaken together, colliding and embracing. Told with Levin's unique blend of love and violence, slapstick humor and tender courtship, abstract semiotics and karate chops, Hot Pink is the work of a major talent in his sharpest form. Review:"Adam Levin's stories mine the pathos and humor of everyday life." The New York Times Book Review
Review:"Hot Pink leaves readers wondering what might be lurking nearby, on the verge of uprooting their own lives." Chicago Magazine
Review:"Each story in this anticipated follow-up to Levin's megalithic debut The Instructions, has its own cracks-fissures in otherwise recognizable realities that expose the hidden aspects of everyday experience." Nylon
Review:"From walls that ooze unnameable, unidentifiable gel, through makers of children's dolls designed to mimic the stages of digestive health, to old widowers in retirement looking back over their marriages, Levin manages to find the pathos and humor in living an 'ordinary' existence. Enter his world if you dare!" The Jewish Times
Review:"Levin has a gift for voice, for creating enticing narrators. Whether it's the elderly, dirty-minded Jewish men of The Extra Mile or the adolescent Italian-American toughs of Finch and the white working-class boys of Hot Pink, these are stories that grab the ear first." The LA Times
Review:"Extraordinary and bizarre." Chicago Sun-Times
Review:"Levin's writing isn't just clever but smart...it isn't just strange but insightful." The Chicago Reader
Review:"Each story is so singular and entirely different that it becomes a joy delving into each strange new world." Grantland.com
Review:"Levin is a genius wordsmith, constructing unorthodox, language-bending paragraphs steeped in a biting facetiousness." Hey, Small Press!
Review:"[Levin] writes tough, funny characters who have honest voices and who see beautiful, awful things happen. He's also good at writing stories that make you lose track of whether they're deeply sad or very funny." On The Media Blog
Review:"Levin is a writer poised to join the ranks of the best young short-story crafters." The Daily Beast
Review:"Hot Pink is gritty. It's sharp and it's flashy — and most importantly, it packs one helluva literary punch." Pank
Review:"Levin goes places where most of us wouldn't dare let our mind wander." Jewish Book Council
Review:"Beautiful writing that is simultaneously fast, gritty, and brutal." InDigest
About the AuthorAdam Levin is the author of The Instructions, the winner of the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award. His stories have appeared in Tin House, McSweeney's, and Esquire. Winner of the 2003 Summer Literary Seminars Fiction Contest and the 2004 Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Prize, he lives in Chicago, where he teaches Creative Writing at the School of the Art Institute.
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