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The Unprofessionals

A Novel

By: Julie Hecht

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Paperback | 12 August 2008 | Edition Number 1

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240 Pages

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20.96 x 13.97 x 1.52

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There is no American writer alive who is funnier, more inquisitive, or more surprising than Julie Hecht. The Unprofessionals, her first novel, whose narrator also told the stories in the author''s bestselling collection Do the Windows Open?, is a triumph of tragicomedy. The book follows the odd friendship between the narrator -- a photographer in her late forties -- and a precocious raconteur, identified only as The Boy, whom she has known since his childhood. As the narrator and the young man regale each other with tales of the way Americans live now, she is also telling the story of his path to heroin addiction and his many attempts to recover.

The Unprofessionals is a masterpiece of comic despair, illuminating our bewildering century, and a hilarious and sad story of two outsiders who see the world with painful clarity -- and as a whole, a novel of unexampled originality.

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"Julie Hecht sees the horribleness and beauty of our everyday lives better than anyone else, and her humor is deadpan, wild, and sibylline. The Unprofessionals kept me reading avidly right to its last word." -- Ian Frazier

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Fiction Modern & Contemporary Fiction Thrillers & Suspense

An Evening in Winter
The Beauty Room
The Surprise Phone Call Jobs of Youth
Yoga-Ball Night Last August
The Boyhood Phone Stories
The Denial
The Evidence
The Missed Boat Skin Talk
The Year of Rehabilitation Back to New York Tea Party
The Blank Space
The Bourgeois Blues Days of Late Spring Drugs Prescribed by an Addict
The Short Phone Calls of June
The Point of Life
The Birthday Weekend
The Birthday
The Two Things
The Demon
The Phone
Message Etiquette Course
After the Phone Message
How Did This Happen?
Not Elvis Presley
The Same Kitchen in Nantucket
The Nihilist Chefs Yoga for the Hands
The Way Life Is After the Summer
The Red Room Holy Night
Return to the Waxer-Electrologist Faces of Pets
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The Unprofessionals

A Novel

At a Glance

Paperback

Industry Reviews

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How to return your order

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