Wakefield (First Edition)

Codrescu, Andrei

ISBN 10: 0002005794 / ISBN 13: 9780002005791

Published by Harper Flamingo Canada / Harper Collins, Toronto, 2004

About this Item

Gentle rubbing of the black dust jacket. "A brilliant comic novel". 288 pages.

Seller Inventory # 22959

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wakefield (First Edition)
• Publisher: Harper Flamingo Canada / Harper Collins, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002005794
• ISBN 13: 9780002005791
• Binding: Hard Cover in Dust Jacket
• Edition: First Canadian Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Plus
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions

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Synopsis

Picture He's divorced, lives alone in a comfortable, book-filled apartment in a sophisticated city. A motivational speaker, his talks leave audiences dispirited and anxious. But for this peculiar talent, he's nicely paid by corporate America, and he's in demand. Then one day the Devil shows up, walks right into Wakefield's tasteful living room, and says, "Time's up."Just as literary Fausts have done for centuries, Wakefield makes a bargain with Satan, who as it turns out, is having his own existential crisis due to bureaucratic headaches and younger upstart demons in the afterworld. The Devil gives Wakefield a year to find an authentic life—or else it's curtains. So Wakefield travels across the country meeting New Age gurus, billionaire techno-geeks, global pioneers, gambling addicts and models who look like heroin addicts, venture capitalists, art collectors, rainforest protectors, and S and M strippers.