Amateurs
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Praise for Dylan Hicks:
"Hicks is a terrific writer who can craft a simile with the best of them."—Kirkus Reviews
"The joy in Hicks' debut arises less from plot than from the writing itself: nuanced, ingenious, perceptive, funny."—The Star Tribune
"Do yourself a favor and read this smart, tender book. The characters will haunt you with their longing, and inspire you with their sweet, caustic wit."—Sam Lipsyte
Archer is a sex toy heir. His best friend, John, is as earnest as Archer is feckless. John's girlfriend, Sara, writes Archer's semi-celebrated novels for him. Sara's roommate, Lucas, wishes he'd never lost his girlfriend to the man. Money, friendship, and resentment unspool in the conversations we have as we're coming of age and coming to grips.
Dylan Hicks is a songwriter, musician, and writer. His work has appeared in the Village Voice, the New York Times, the Star Tribune, City Pages, and Rain Taxi, and he has released three albums under his own name. A fourth, Sings Bolling Greene, was released as a companion album to his first novel Boarded Windows. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife, Nina Hale, and his son, Jackson.
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Dylan Hicks. (2016). Amateurs. Coffee House Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Dylan Hicks. 2016. Amateurs. Coffee House Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Dylan Hicks, Amateurs. Coffee House Press, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Dylan Hicks. Amateurs. Coffee House Press, 2016.
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"Hicks is a terrific writer who can craft a simile with the best of them."—Kirkus Reviews
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"Do yourself a favor and read this smart, tender book. The characters will haunt you with their longing, and inspire you with their sweet, caustic wit."—Sam Lipsyte
Archer is a sex toy heir. His best friend, John, is as earnest as Archer is feckless. John's girlfriend, Sara, writes Archer's semi-celebrated novels for him. Sara's roommate, Lucas, wishes he'd never lost his girlfriend to the man. Money, friendship, and resentment unspool in the conversations we have as we're coming of age and coming to grips.
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Starred review from March 1, 2016
The personal and social lives of a group of friends are on display in this modern novel of manners. Hicks' second novel, after Boarded Windows (2012), is smart, witty, and endearing. In a brief prologue, dated April 1972, we meet the Crennel family. Marion, a daughter, has written an unfinished novel that was "meant to be a parody and refraction of the kind of nuptial denouement one finds in Shakespeare or Austen." (Sounds a lot like Hicks' own novel.) She hides it in the attic. Then Part 1, titled "Prenuptial," begins in May 2011. The novel is divided into months over 11 years. Episodes go back and forth in time. We meet characters in one episode and then jump a few years ahead in the next episode to see them now older, maybe wiser. New characters, mostly minor, pop up along the way, and gradually, all the characters are jumping back and forth in time, slowly moving toward Part 2, "Postnuptial," with the last episode set in September 2011. It's very much a modern Austen-esque novel of manners. Carefully plotted, it's jumpy at first, but once settled in, the story takes off, providing a clever, jaunty ride. In May 2011, we first meet Karyn and her young son, Maxwell. She's been invited to her cousin Archer Bondarenko's wedding to Gemma in June. His family makes dildos, and they're plenty rich. He's published a successful novel which he may or may not have written. In August 2004, we meet Sara Crennel, a burgeoning writer; she's with Lucas Pope, who was previously with Gemma. Sara may or may not have written Archer's novel. Scandal ensues. A handy score card of who's what when helps keep track of everyone in this sprightly tale about friendship and courtship, money, love, assorted complications--and writers. Felicitous characters and a scrumptious plot make Hicks' second novel refreshing and fun.COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Archer is marrying Gemma, who used to date Lucas, who lived with Sara, who used to date John, who was Archer's college roommate. Lucas may still love Gemma, or maybe he loves Karyn, Archer's long-lost cousin. In the meantime, Sara may or may not have accidentally written Archer's novels for him and quietly fallen in love in the process. And so it goes in Hicks' (Boarded Windows, 2012) second novel, an improbable and wildly enjoyable mix of a comedy of manners, a road-trip story, and a slacker coming-of-age tale. Hicks manages to turns what could easily have made readers stumblemultiple protagonists in multiple time linesinto a winning narrative style. Although some characters are given fewer complexities and lighter roles, all are integral to the enjoyable tangle of personalities that Hicks has deftly drawn together. The lively cast is just small enough to prevent confusion but large and varied enough to resemble a real-life group of friends. Though the story lines themselves are engaging, it is Hicks' ear for dialogue, humor, and detail that makes the novel shine.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
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"Hicks is a terrific writer who can craft a simile with the best of them." —Kirkus Reviews
"The joy in Hicks' debut arises less from plot than from the writing itself: nuanced, ingenious, perceptive, funny." —The Star Tribune
"Do yourself a favor and read this smart, tender book. The characters will haunt you with their longing, and inspire you with their sweet, caustic wit." —Sam Lipsyte
Archer is a semi-celebrated novelist and sex-toy heir. His best friend, John, is as earnest as Archer is feckless. John's girlfriend, Sara, envies Archer's writing career. And Sara's roommate, Lucas, wishes he'd never lost his girlfriend to the man. Money, friendship, and resentment unspool in the conversations we have as we're coming of age and coming to grips.
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