Scott Hutchins teaches at Stanford University, California. His work has appeared in StoryQuarterly, The Rumpus, The New York Times and Esquire. This is his first novel.
Electrifying. Clever, funny and very entertaining The New York Times Tremendous, big, clever ... every once in a while a novel comes along and speaks to a generation ... has much to say about what it means to live, love and lose in the twenty-first century Guardian Worthy of Chuck Palahniuk ... Hutchins's satirical take on 21st-century existence is sharply observed Independent Touching and extremely funny, Neill Bassett is a disenchanted bachelor for the Noughties generation. Brilliantly achieved GQ Inventive, intelligent, hilarious. One of the pleasures here is Hutchins' terrific grasp of the zeitgest San Francisco Chronicle Terrific. Throughout, Hutchins hits that sweet spot where humour and melancholy comfortably coexist Entertainment Weekly Mixes the everyman likeability of Nick Hornby with a splash of the offbeat intellect of Douglas Coupland Metro