Last Resort

Named a Best Book of 2022 by the New Yorker Named a Top 10 Book of the Year by Slate Named a Best Book of the Year by Vulture A New York Times Editors'' Choice Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction ''Talent is rare, which is why I let out a big yippee reading Andrew Lipstein''s Last Resort ... Excellent'' THE TIMES ''You won''t read a more brilliantly executed literary romp this year'' GUARDIAN ''A funny, fast-paced literary satire'' DAILY TELEGRAPH ''Incredibly entertaining'' NEW YORK TIMES, Editor''s Choice ''Wicked fun... A deliciously absurd comedy'' WASHINGTON POST ''If Less by Andrew Sean Greer left a hole in your life, good news: Last Resort will fill it'' MEG MASON ''Caleb Horowitz is exactly the kind of character I love to hate'' CLAIRE FULLER ''A rare accomplishment'' RUMAAN ALAM ''Wickedly funny: I loved it'' PATRICK GALE ''Superbly written, darkly funny and gripping from the first page. I absolutely loved it'' EMMA STONEX Caleb Horowitz is twenty-seven, and his wildest dreams are about to come true. His manuscript has caught the attention of the literary agent, who offers him fame, fortune and a taste of the literary life. He can''t wait for his book to be shopped around to every editor in New York, except one: Avi Dietsch, a college rival and the novel''s ''inspiration.'' When Avi gets his hands on the manuscript, he sees nothing but theft - and opportunity. And so Caleb is forced to make a Faustian bargain, one that tests his theories of success, ambition and the limits of art.