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  • No One Left to Come Looking for You

  • A Novel
  • By: Sam Lipsyte
  • Narrated by: Sam Lipsyte
  • Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (32 ratings)

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No One Left to Come Looking for You

By: Sam Lipsyte
Narrated by: Sam Lipsyte
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Publisher's summary

A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 1990s New York City.

Manhattan’s East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and hard drugs are plentiful. Crime is high, but rent is low, luring hopeful, creative kids from sleepy suburbs around the country.

One of these is Jack S., a young New Jersey rock musician. Just a few days before his band’s biggest gig, their lead singer goes missing with Jack’s prized bass, presumably to hock it to feed his junk habit. Jack’s search for his buddy uncovers a sinister entanglement of crimes tied to local real estate barons looking to remake New York City—and who might also be connected to the recent death of Jack’s punk rock mentor. Along the way, Jack encounters a cast of colorful characters, including a bewitching, quick-witted scenester who favors dressing in a nurse’s outfit, a monstrous hired killer with a devotion to both figure skating and edged weapons, a deranged if prophetic postwar novelist, and a tough-talking cop who fancies himself a retro-cool icon of the homicide squad but is harboring a surprising secret.

No One Left to Come Looking for You is a thrilling suspense novel that also serves as a love letter to a bygone era of New York City where young artists could still afford to chase their dreams.

©2022 Sam Lipsyte (P)2022 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Captures the Vibe

This book took me back big time. Do you think we knew what was being lost as it evaporated from the streets around us or were we all too lost ourselves to notice. Too bad we have to get old to get perspective. Lipsyte’s narrative tone is perfect.

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Pure joy

This is just what I’ve been craving—a book with that Tom Wolfe wit and conversational tone, where the story is secondary to the writing. Fortunately it’s a rollicking tale. And I couldn’t imagine anyone reading it better than this author.

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Well worth listening

The language is so visual and performance feels like listening to a friend telling a story. It brings to life NYC back in the day and looks at artists and musicians less from the lens of fame and more about the experience. It is a mystery. It is a snapshot. It speaks of a generation (X that is) and so it has that flow.

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Yes read it. Listen to it.

Too tired to write a proper review but I heartily recommend - many beautiful nuggets of language and humor embedded in a story that holds up well.

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Wince

Raymond Chandler meets Aaron Sorkin meets Madonna meets Johnny Rotten with an attempted storyline layered on top. Depressing.

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Wow… in a real wow , that was pretty bad

I stayed with the book….. I mean how could it get worse? The last band scene was awful… Yikes.

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