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Fuccboi

Sean Thor Conroe

'Got under my skin in the way the best writing can' SHEILA HETI

A fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism from an electrifying new voice

Set in Philly one year into Trump's presidency Sean Thor Conroe's audacious freewheeling debut follows our eponymous fuccboi Sean as he attempts to live meaningfully in a world that doesn't seem to need him. Reconciling past failed selves -- cross-country walker SoundCloud rapper weed farmer -- he now finds himself back in his college city trying to write doing stimulant-fueled bike deliveries to eat. Unable to accept that his ex has dropped him yet still engaged in all the same fuckery -- being coy and spineless dodging decisions maintaining a rotation of baes -- that led to her leaving in the first place. But now Sean has begun to wonder how sustainable is this mode? How much fuckery is too much fuckery?

Written in a riotous utterly original idiom and slyly undercutting both the hypocrisy of our era and that of Sean himself Fuccboi is an unvarnished playful and searching examination of what it means to be a man.

'Terse and intense and new and sort of fucked up but knowingly so. I loved it' TOMMY ORANGE author of THERE THERE

'Sean Conroe isn't one of the writers there's a hundred of . . . He writes what's his own his own way' NICO WALKER author of CHERRY

'Like Knausgaard Conroe has a knack for making the mundane enthralling' CHRIS POWER author of A LONELY MAN

'How brilliant to finally have a novel that examines contemporary masculinity with such candour with such humour and style as to immediately read like amodern classic' BARRY PIERCE IRISH TIMES

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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : SEP 1, 2022
  • Imprint : Wildfire
  • Page Extent : 320
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781472293145
  • Price : INR 825
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Sean Thor Conroe

SEAN THOR CONROE was born KAMURA SHO in Tokyo in 1991. He was raised in Scotland Upstate New York and Northern California. In 2014 he walked from Philly to Colorado. He studied Writing and Reading and Philosophy at Swarthmore College. He started attending the Columbia University School of the Arts in 2019. His writing has appeared in New York Tyrant The Nervous Breakdown Hobart Vol 1 Brooklyn Expat Soft Cartel Gay Death Trance HTML Giant Back Patio and X-R-A-Y. He hosts the book podcast 1storypod and lives in Harlem.

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