Taipei Tao Lin by Tao Lin 9780307950185, 0307950182, B00ALBR204 instant download after payment.

From one of this generation’s most talked-about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal, powerful, & moving novel about family, relationships, accelerating drug use, and the lingering possibility of death

"In these rare sentences, Lin gives to buildings, cars and computers the kind of rapturous attention that other writers give to mountains, lakes and trees... And for all its frequent dullness, Lin's prose is innovative."  -  Annalisa Quinn, NPR

Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode - or lament - to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan,  where he confronts his family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas.

Along the way - whether on all-night drives up the East Coast, shoplifting excursions in the South, book readings on the West Coast, or ill-advised grocery runs in Ohio - movies are made with laptop cameras, massive amounts of drugs are ingested, and two young lovers come to learn what it means to share themselves completely.

"Tao Lin [is] an excellent writer of avant-garde fiction. His new novel is his most mature work and follows a young New York writer to Taipei, where he must reconcile his family's roots with the haze of MDMA, texts and tweets that he's been living in. Mr Lin has refined his deadpan prose style here into an icy, cynical, but ultimately thrilling and unique literary voice."  -  New York Observer

The result is a suspenseful meditation on memory, love, and what it means to be alive, young, and on the fringe in America, or anywhere else for that matter.

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