The War Against the Assholes
$22.24
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
14 June 2016
Summary
Mike Wood is a teenager at a decidedly unprestigious Catholic school in Manhattan, accustomed to solving problems using brawn rather than brains.
One day, his nerdy classmate Hob Callahan persuades him to read a mysterious old book of unknown authorship, The Calendar of Slights. On the face of things, the book is a guide to performing clever card tricks; but in fact, it is a test for recruiting new members to join a secret cell of radical magicians.
Amazingly, Mike pa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472151551 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472151550 |
| Author: | Sam Munson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | ATOM |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 14 June 2016 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 181mm x 20mm |
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Somehow Sam Munson has you believing in his urban-teen-grift-noir-magician-brawl from paragraph one. WAR AGAINST THE ASSHOLES is original, sharp and mean and it crackles with attitude and style. Death to the assholes! Long live the assholes! – Paul Tremblay, author of A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTSLev Grossman’s The Magicians series on acid * SFSignal *I would give a thumbs up merely for the title alone: Fortunately, there’s more to the book than the fabulous title – John Scalzi
About The Author
Sam Munson
Sam Munson is the author of The November Criminals and The War Against the Assholes. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, n+1, The Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal, The National, The Daily Beast, Commentary, Tablet, The New York Observer, The Utopian, and numerous other publications.
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