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Here Goes Nothing
- Author
- Steve Toltz
- Narrator
- Ben Chapple
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 2 July 2022
- Run Time
- 10 hours 1 minute
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A wildly inventive, savagely funny, and topical novel about love, mortality, and the afterlife, by the Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole.
Angus is a reformed ne’er-do-well looking forward to the birth of his first child when he’s murdered by a man who is in love with his pregnant wife Gracie. Having never believed in God, heaven or hell, Angus finds himself in the afterlife—a place that provides more questions than answers. As a worldwide pandemic finally reaches the shores of Australia, the afterlife starts to get very crowded and Angus finds a way to reconnect with his wife Gracie and maybe even seek revenge on his murderer.
Here Goes Nothing is a novel of exhilarating originality and scope about birth, death, and everything in between that contains a vision of the afterlife that rivals Dante’s Divine Comedy and George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo, and the Emmy-nominated The Good Place.
Critics Review
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“Revels in the irony of an afterlife skeptic forced into a ghastly second act.”
Booklist
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“[A] zany, increasingly dark comedy.”
Washington Post
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“Toltz’s wit and black humor transform a morbid premise into a rollicking ride.”
Publishers Weekly
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“You may laugh or weep and be shocked or outraged, but you won’t be bored.”
Washington Independent Review of Books
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"Toltz…uses Here Goes Nothing as a jumping-off point to parody the perversity and stubbornness of human nature and to highlight our uneasy relationship with mortality.”
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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“Enjoyable as social commentary, a philosophical exploration of life’s meaning, an inventive, pop-culture-referencing mystery-of-sorts or simply a good yarn.”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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“Surreal, sharply funny, and as dark as the grave. Fans of noir fiction and quirky thrillers…will dig right in.”
Shelf Awareness
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“Outlandishly satisfying.”
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Details
- Author
- Steve Toltz
- Narrator
- Ben Chapple
- Duration
- 10 hours 1 minute
- Release Date
- 2 July 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200997640
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Humorous fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Synopsis
A wildly inventive, savagely funny, and topical novel about love, mortality, and the afterlife, by the Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole.Angus is a reformed ne’er-do-well looking forward to the birth of his first child when he’s murdered by a man who is in love with his pregnant wife Gracie. Having never believed in God, heaven or hell, Angus finds himself in the afterlife—a place that provides more questions than answers. As a worldwide pandemic finally reaches the shores of Australia, the afterlife starts to get very crowded and Angus finds a way to reconnect with his wife Gracie and maybe even seek revenge on his murderer.Here Goes Nothing is a novel of exhilarating originality and scope about birth, death, and everything in between that contains a vision of the afterlife that rivals Dante’s Divine Comedy and George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo, and the Emmy-nominated The Good Place.
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