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Hope

Riverhead Books; Glen Duncan

Synopsis:
Gabriel Jones could be your boyfriend, your husband, or even yourselfýheýs an intelligent, charming, poetry-loving university graduate; he believes in love; heýs capable of strong friendshipsýand heýs been seeing a gorgeous high-priced call girl who picked him up in a London cafý. Heýs also addicted to pornography. In fact, itýs his attraction to pornography that causes the collapse of his relationship with the one woman he has ever loved. Hope is a novel in the tradition of Philip Rothýs Portnoyýs Complaint, Nabokovýs Lolita, and Dostoyevskyýs Notes from the Undergroundýconfessional novels that have at their centers a hyperintelligent protagonist who seductively draws the reader into an illicit world. Why would a young, attractive man, who has found the woman of his dreams, turn to pornography? Why do men in general turn to pornography? Welcome to the world of Hope. By turns disarmingly intelligent, hilariously funny, and deeply disturbing, Hope examines Gabriel Jonesýs numerous obsessions: love and friendship; behavior he recognizes as both ridiculous and self-destructive; and mortality. It signals the remarkable debut of a highly talented young writer.

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