{"product_id":"nothing-is-terrible-paperback","title":"Nothing Is Terrible - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Sharpe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Sharpe's debut collection, Stories from the Tube, was praised in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e for its \"wildly effective-and often touching-collisions of the banal and the surreal.\" \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003ecalled it \"unsettling, lovely, creepy\"; \u003ci\u003eForbes FYI\u003c\/i\u003e heralded it as a \"remarkable fiction debut.\" In \u003ci\u003eNothing Is Terrible\u003c\/i\u003e, his first novel, Sharpe astonishes once again with the hallucinatory and hilarious story of a girl's unusual coming-of-age and her search for love in unlikely places. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer name is Mary White, though she prefers to be called Paul, the name of her ill-fated twin brother. Bright, pragmatic, irreverent, and orphaned, she is being raised by her clueless aunt and uncle and fears she may be about to drown in dull suburban torpor-until she falls in love with her new sixth-grade teacher, Miss Skip Hartman. Devoted teacher and pupil run off to live in New York City, where Mary receives a very unconventional education (art dealers, drug dealers, boyfriends, epic piercings) and discovers redemptive power in even the most unorthodox kind of love, all of which she relates in the most Bront an gentle-reader tone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eNothing Is Terrible\u003c\/b\u003e, Matthew Sharpe takes the bildungsroman and turns it upside down and inside out. Like a breakneck sprint through a Manhattan house of mirrors, it offers readers a giddily literate tour of the resourceful mind of a singular young woman.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Sharpe's debut collection, Stories from the Tube, was praised in the \"Los Angeles Times Book Review for its \"wildly effective-and often touching-collisions of the banal and the surreal.\" \"Wiredcalled it \"unsettling, lovely, creepy\"; \"Forbes FYI heralded it as a \"remarkable fiction debut.\" In \"Nothing Is Terrible, his first novel, Sharpe astonishes once again with the hallucinatory and hilarious story of a girl's unusual coming-of-age and her search for love in unlikely places. \u003cbr\u003eHer name is Mary White, though she prefers to be called Paul, the name of her ill-fated twin brother. Bright, pragmatic, irreverent, and orphaned, she is being raised by her clueless aunt and uncle and fears she may be about to drown in dull suburban torpor-until she falls in love with her new sixth-grade teacher, Miss Skip Hartman. Devoted teacher and pupil run off to live in New York City, where Mary receives a very unconventional education (art dealers, drug dealers, boyfriends, epic piercings) and discovers redemptive power in even the most unorthodox kind of love, all of which she relates in the most Brontean gentle-reader tone. \u003cbr\u003eIn Nothing Is Terrible, Matthew Sharpe takes the bildungsroman and turns it upside down and inside out. Like a breakneck sprint through a Manhattan house of mirrors, it offers readers a giddily literate tour of the resourceful mind of a singular young woman. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Sharpe\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eStories from the Tube\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published stories in \u003ci\u003eZoetrope\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Letters and Commentary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWitness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFiction\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.46 x 5.76 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47237101748473,"sku":"9780812992274","price":21.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/RVhGRzJmZXcvRUlyc1JYTThBVGVqdz09.webp?v=1768538890","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/nothing-is-terrible-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}