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All This Life A Novel

by Joshua Mohr
All This Life A Novel

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ISBN10: 1593766033
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Morning rush hour on the Golden Gate Bridge. Amidst the river of metal and glass a shocking event occurs, leaving those who witnessed it desperately looking for answers, most notably one man and his son Jake, who captured the event and uploaded it to the internet for all the world to experience. As the media swarms over the story, Jake will face the ramifications of his actions as he learns the perils of our modern disconnect between the real world and the world we create on line.

In land-locked Arizona, as the entire country learns of the event, Sara views Jake's video just before witnessing a horrible event of her own: her boyfriend's posting of their intimate sex tape. As word of the tape leaks out, making her an instant pariah, Sara needs to escape the small towns persecution of her careless action. Along with Rodney, an old boyfriend injured long ago in a freak accident that destroyed his parent's marriage, she must run faster than the internet trolls seeking to punish her for her indiscretions. Sara and Rodney will reunite with his estranged mother, Kat, now in danger from a new man in her life who may not be who he — or his online profiles — claim to be, a dangerous avatar in human form.

With a wide cast of characters and an exciting pace that mimics the speed of our modern, all-too-connected lives, All This Life examines the dangerous intersection of reality and the imaginary, where coding and technology seek to highlight and augment our already flawed human connections. Using his trademark talent for creating memorable characters, with a deep insight into language and how it can be twisted to alter reality, Joshua Mohr returns with his most contemporary and insightful novel yet.

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"The book takes itself seriously, ably balancing its many story lines while it builds to a breathless climax. The characters strong emotions provide a current of barely contained anguish that threatens to overtake their lives as it pushes them forward....Mohr delivers a solid look at the distinction between our offline and online lives and the danger that lurks when the lines between them are blurred. Thoughtful crossover fiction of interest to adult and YA audiences." Booklist

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"Mohr's portrayal of a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco rings true....Mohr's novel builds slowly, and his empathy for the majority of his characters shines through, allowing for a genuinely felt conclusion." Kirkus

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"Joshua Mohr is a rabble-rouser whose first four novels have earned him a near cultish following. Now, with All This Life, Mohr wades into the dark territory of cyber voyeurism, internet shaming, tweets, Youtube, and streaming anger. Trouble spreads like wildfire in this compelling novel, and with brutal honesty, and empathy for his diverse cast of characters, Mohr refuses to flinch." Tom Barbash, author of Stay Up With Me

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“A place belongs forever to the person who claims it the hardest, wrote Joan Didion, about herself, and California, and with All This Life, Joshua Mohr solidifies his claim on the San Francisco of right this minute, a city he loves so much it hurts. Fearless, not only in its willingness to penetrate our real and virtual desperation, but also in its insistence on the tender tenacity of hope, this Tilt-a-Whirl of a novel spins along at cyber-speed to its profound and utterly human finale.” Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted

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With a wide cast of characters and an exciting pace that mimics the speed of our modern, all-too-connected lives, All This Life examines the dangerous intersection of reality and the imaginary, where coding and technology seek to highlight and augment our already flawed human connections.

Morning rush hour on the Golden Gate Bridge. Amidst the river of metal and glass a shocking event occurs, leaving those who witnessed it desperately looking for answers, most notably one man and his son Jake, who captured the event and uploaded it to the internet for all the world to experience. As the media swarms over the story, Jake will face the ramifications of his actions as he learns the perils of our modern disconnect between the real world and the world we create on line.

In land-locked Arizona, as the entire country learns of the event, Sara views Jake's video just before witnessing a horrible event of her own: her boyfriend's posting of their intimate sex tape. As word of the tape leaks out, making her an instant pariah, Sara needs to escape the small town's persecution of her careless action. Along with Rodney, an old boyfriend injured long ago in a freak accident that destroyed his parents' marriage, she must run faster than the internet trolls seeking to punish her for her indiscretions. Sara and Rodney will reunite with his estranged mother, Kat, now in danger from a new man in her life who may not be who he--or his online profiles--claim to be, a dangerous avatar in human form.

Using his trademark talent for creating memorable characters, with a deep insight into language and how it can be twisted to alter reality, Joshua Mohr returns with his most contemporary and insightful novel yet.


About the Author

Joshua Mohr is the author of the novels Termite Parade (a New York Times Book Review Editors Choice selection), Some Things that Meant the World to Me (one of O Magazine's Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller), Damascus, and Fight Song, all published to much critical acclaim. Mohr teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco.

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Marci San Francisco , October 12, 2015 (view all comments by Marci San Francisco)
All This Life was the first book of Joshua Mohr's I have read...but it will definitely not be the last. I loved that All This Life is set in the very present moment in the city where I live (San Francisco). Mohr's compassion for his (mostly) flawed characters shines through, and made me care about them, too. His writing is exciting, and the story barrels along at breakneck pace. My heart was pounding as I finished the book. Now I am looking forward to reading his other work and anticipating future work, thankful that he is young!

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Janey Skinner , July 17, 2015 (view all comments by Janey Skinner)
With prose that pops off the page, Joshua Mohr takes us into the hearts of people facing some of the worst days of their lives - and through some mix of kindness, love and kismet, making it better. The larger-than-life neon images of humor and pathos will stick with you - whether that of a band playing a raucous tune as they jump off the Golden Gate Bridge (it's the first chapter, folks, I'm not spoiling anything) or of the unfortunate origins of the name Balloon Boy. The experiences of loss, cowardice, misplaced faith and the vortex of addiction are ones that most of us can relate to - even if we don't admit it - but so are the experiences of grace that make all this life so sweet, no matter the evidence to the contrary. The writing carries you forward at a fast clip, with several different point-of-view characters, whose lives all intersect and find some resolution on the Golden Gate Bridge. The book also makes good use of social media and our interaction with it, for connection and delusion both. This book has some of the qualities of Damascus, Mohr's third novel, and in fact the bar featured in Damascus makes an appearance in this story, but with perhaps a greater degree of emotional vulnerability.

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ISBN:
9781593766030
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
07/14/2015
Publisher:
SOFT SKULL PRESS
Pages:
304
Height:
1.30IN
Width:
6.10IN
Thickness:
1.00
Author:
Joshua Mohr
Author:
Joshua Mohr
Subject:
Literature-A to Z

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