Warp - Lev Grossman
Once a reader has found a new author he or she truly enjoys, a typical next step is to visit that author’s older works. Clearly, St. Martin’s Press figured that they had a gold mine in their vaults:
If you’re inclined to do just that by snapping up a copy of his novel Warp, it’s not a good idea…
The aimless, slacker Gen-Xer bit has been done to death. Let’s face it: there are dozens, if not hundreds, of novels out there about the aimless types who’ve now been replaced in the literary world by their own aimless offspring. In the case of Warp, it’s Hollis Kessler, late a graduate of Boston College who – like so many LT¹ types before him – is determined to stay in the town where he had so much fun as an undergrad. Hollis’s problem is that he’s the slackest of his little coterie of slackers – even his ex-girlfriend has yuppified herself and now sashays about a glamorous office.
