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Last Resort

A Novel

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Last Resort

By: Andrew Lipstein
Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
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In his blazing debut novel Last Resort, Andrew Lipstein blurs the lines of fact and fiction with a thrilling story of fame, fortune, and impossible choices.

Caleb Horowitz is 27, 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 it, he sees nothing but theft - and opportunity. Caleb is forced to make a Faustian bargain, one that tests his theories of success, ambition, and the limits of art.

Andrew Lipstein’s Last Resort is the razor-edged account of a young man's headlong journey into authenticity. As Caleb fights to right his mistakes and reclaim his name, he must burn every bridge, confront his own desire, and finally see his work from the perspective of those locked inside.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

©2022 Andrew Lipstein (P)2022 Macmillan Audio Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature

Critic reviews

2022, New York Magazine Best Books of the Year, Long-listed

2022, New Yorker Best Books of the Year, Long-listed

2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, Short-listed
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Despite great reviews for the book, I did not like the audio version at all. The pacing of the narrator was too fast,

Maybe you need to be the character's age?

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This book seemed to get a lot of buzz and I have to say for me it was like the emperor has no clothes. I found the plot uninteresting, filled with lots of extraneous details and flat characters. The central premise, who owns their rights to a story, wasn't explored in an especially interesting way. And the narration sure didn't help. I don't think this was the right reader at all for this book.

Didn't get the hype

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Perfect, from the first word to the last. My husband has never written a better book.

Utterly outstanding

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There's at least one way better book with this same premise.,"The Plot', right here on Audible. This novel is full of unpleasant people doing unbelievable things --- and the writing is so stilted, phrasing that sounds badly translated into English.

And the novel within the novel sounds worse.

I still don't even understand the ending, and this is not a deep, literary book, so why the mystery? And why all the mind-numbing details that don't add up to anything?

Preposterous and unpleasant. Awkward writing.

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I don't resent the book for being what it is. I resent the New Yorker Magazine for putting it in it's briefly noted selection. Ugh.

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