The Answer Is Always Yes

Monica Ferrell

ISBN 10: 0385339291 / ISBN 13: 9780385339292

Published by The Dial Press May 2008, 2008

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Remainder dot to bottom edge, else tight and clean. DJ shows light rubbing. Signed on title page. Seller Inventory # 1002891

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Answer Is Always Yes

Publisher: The Dial Press May 2008

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed By Author

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

This darkly exuberant debut novel—by turns a fierce, funny coming-of-age story and a teasing work of literary suspense—traces the precipitous rise and fall of a teenage impresario at the zenith of the New York club scene.

Matthew Acciaccatura of Teaneck, New Jersey, begins his freshman year at NYU in the fall of 1995 with one goal in mind: to become cool. A former high school outcast, used to lumbering the hallways alone in oversize turtlenecks, Matt seems an unlikely candidate for such a transformation. Yet by dint of effort he lands the coveted position of promoter at one of the hottest clubs in New York in the heyday of rave music and Ecstasy. However, as “Magic” Matt rises to fame, portents of tragedy begin to appear, literally in the margins of the story. Footnotes from one Dr. Hans Mannheim, an imprisoned German academic obsessed with Matt’s dangerous trajectory, suggest that Matt is not as in control of his destiny as he might appear....

A gorgeously written archetypal tale of self-discovery (and self-deception) and a love letter to the enduring possibilities of New York City, The Answer Is Always Yes will keep readers guessing until its explosive climax.

About the Author:

Monica Ferrell’s poems have appeared in the New York Review of Books, Paris Review, and other magazines, and her first collection, Beast for the Chase, was published in 2008. A former “Discovery”/The Nation winner and Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she lives in Brooklyn. This is her first novel.