Lolito - Softcover

Brooks, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941393357 ISBN 13: 9781941393352

Publisher: Regan Arts., 2015

Synopsis

Age is just a number...

Lolito is an unconventional love story about a fifteen-year-old boy who finds solace in the arms of a middle-aged woman on the Internet.

Fifteen-year-old Etgar Allison is spending spring break alone in an empty house, when he inadvertently learns that his girlfriend has cheated on him with another boy. Heartbroken and lonely, without parental supervision, he turns to alcohol. Unable to cope with his grief, he looks to the Internet for comfort and lands in an adult chatroom. There he meets Macy, a bored but attractive housewife; flirtatious IMs escalate into cybersex chats and soon Etgar is raiding his savings account for a romantic rendezvous in London. . . What could possibly go wrong?

Ben Brooks’s Lolito is an uncompromising look at the turbulent emotional life of teenage boys, a funny and poignant story that injects raw honesty—and even a little tenderness—into its portrait of a taboo relationship.

About this title

About the Author

Ben Brooks was born in 1992 and lives in Gloucestershire, England. He is the author of five other books Grow Up, Fences, An Island of Fifty, The Kasahara School of Nihilism, and Upward Coast & Sadie. Brooks’s work has been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in the Dzanc Best of the Web anthology. He enjoys tea, sleep, and Haruki Murakami.

Review

“Lolito is the funniest, most horrible book I've read in years. I was blown away.” Author: Nick Cave

“I love Ben Brooks. And Lolito is really something else. A twisted age-gap love story that is deadpan and grubby and strangely poetic and funny and wrong and also very right.” Author: Matt Haig, author of Source: The Humans

“Brooks is a master of this art.” Source: The Times

“Both warm and uncompromising, Lolito will be as entertaining for young adults as it is educational for older readers. And if some aspects of the world Brooks inhabits seem alarming, I can't think of a writer I would rather have as my guide.” Source: The Guardian

“This is a totally convincing portrait of being a wayward teenager now, that only a teenager could have written.” Source: Dazed & Confused

“Funny, witty and addictive, Lolito is a quirky and disturbing ball of energy that will consume readers until they have turned the last page. Brooks has created the most authentic teenage voice of the twenty-first century.” Source: List

“Lolito manages to be hilarious, thought-provoking, disturbing and ridiculous all at once and again proves that young Brooks is one of the UK’s most promising young writers right now—a possible Irvine Welsh of his generation.” Source: Worcester News

"Booze, drugs, porn, snuff videos, chat rooms, pedophiles: what one 15-year-old did over spring break. Lolito is the fifth novel from 23-year-old prodigy Ben Brooks... A shocking, funny, touching, book; a young writer with potential to burn.” Source: Kirkus

"Lolito is reminiscent of Superbad and Youth in Revolt... Etgar is one of the most compelling teenage voices in contemporary literature, with a seemingly endless capacity for imagination and wit." Source: Shelf Awareness

"Etgar is painfully self-conscious and self-deprecating; he inhabits that familiar teen mindset where every little thing is the most crucial event in your life, until it’s not anymore, and then it’s sad and funny at the same time. His staccato narration, interspersed with references to pop culture and the Internet, manages to get at genuine teen anxieties while still being hilarious.” Author: Allison Chopin Source: New York Daily News

About this edition

• Publisher: Regan Arts.
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1941393357
• ISBN 13: 9781941393352
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288