Miss Misery: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 1416940499
- ISBN-13
- 9781416940494
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-01-31
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Andy Greenwald
Description
Once I started, I couldn't stop. It felt like falling down the stairs.... Meet David Gould: abandoned by his girlfriend, pushing the deadline for his first book, tormented by writer's block, and obsessed with the impossibly sexy, overwhelmingly alive diaries young people keep online. Outside it's a beautiful, Brooklyn summer. But inside his apartment David is sleeping in, screening calls, draining beer after beer, and dreaming of Miss Misery -- aka twenty-two-year-old provocateur Cath Kennedy -- a total stranger with impeccable music taste and an enviable nightlife. Now meet David Gould online. Here, in his fictional diary, he's a downtown DJ and an inveterate night owl, drinking and charming countless girls until the sun comes up. But when Miss Misery moves to New York City and begins canoodling with an insufferable hipster, David's diary mysteriously begins updating itself. The reason? David Gould has a doppelgänger, an obnoxious shadow set on claiming David's newly glamorous life as his own. Even worse for David, the phone calls from his editor are becoming increasingly desperate, and the voice mails from his girlfriend -- an ocean away -- are becoming more and more distant. And then there are all of the instant messages from seventeen-year-old Ashleigh Bortch, an emo kid in Salt Lake City with an inappropriate crush on David and a knack for showing up at precisely the wrong time. Forced out of his apartment, David Gould is facing the fight of his life. With humor, heart, and a vibrant, genre-jumping soundtrack, Andy Greenwald captures the essence of what it means to be young and struggling with identity in the new century. From cyberspace to nightclub bathrooms, from New York City to Utah, Miss Misery is a fast-paced, funny story about the timeless need to become the main character in your own life.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Personal Paradise - Miss Misery
By Melanie SchoberIn nicht allzu ferner Zukunft werden die Städte von staatlich gelenkten Jugendbanden beherrscht.
-
Little Miss Misery
By Joe HeroFor sensitive or bold readers, use this scale from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest) to see if this book may be right for you. LITTLE MISS MISERY by Joe Hero Bad Language - 4 Scare Factor - 6 Violence - 8 Humor - 7 Sexual Content - 3
-
Miss Misery's Movie Massacre Comic Magazine: Heartless
By Kiera Davis, Jason Dube, Nicole GuzmanFrom the hit cult television show "Movie Massacre" comes the comic book adaptation.
-
Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing
By Benjamin NugentDrawing on new interviews with those who knew and loved Smith, and focusing on the crucial interplay between Smith's life and music, Ben Nugent compellingly and sympathetically portrays an enormously gifted, yet troubled, artist.
-
Movie Massacre Miss Misery's Horror Comic Magazine #2: The Heart
By J. DubeFrom the hit cult television show "Movie Massacre" comes the comic book adaptation.
-
Misery: A Novel
By Stephen KingAfter an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
-
Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith
By William Todd SchultzThis book unravels the remaining mysteries of Smith's life and his shocking, too-early end. It will be an indispensable examination of his life and legacy, both for Smith's legions of fans as well as readers still discovering his songbook.
-
Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music
By John HowlandThese reworkings of contemporaneous pop inspirations are multilayered. For example, “Lonely Surfer” is apparently a reworking of Cooper's “Lonely Highway.” The latter was written under the pseudonym Jay Martin, with Cooper listed as ...
-
Razama-Snaz!: The Listener's Guide To Nazareth
By Robert Lawson... a one-minute instrumental coda of astral effects titled “Space Safari,” flirting again with prog-rock tendencies. This also should have been considered as a single. RELEASE AND RECEPTION The album hit number thirteen on the UK charts, ...
-
Elliott Smith
By Autumn de WildeA definitive portrait of the troubled singer/songwriter combines two hundred close-up photographs and interviews with those who knew him best to chronicle his influential musical career and often turbulent life, including his tragic death ...