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The Stalker

Paula Bomer

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English
Soho Press
27 May 2025
An Untalented Mr. Ripley, a Dumb American Psycho- A young man combines boundless self-confidence with perpetual failure and ineptitude as he tries to manipulate his way into a better life, preying on women in New York City in the early '90s.

An Untalented Mr. Ripley, a Dumb American Psycho- A young man combines boundless self-confidence with perpetual failure and ineptitude as he tries to manipulate his way into a better life, preying on women in New York City in the early '90s.

Robert Doughten Savile, aka ""Doughty,"" is the son of a once-wealthy, now hard-up family from Darien, Connecticut. Doughty lives in a perpetual cloud of delusion, convinced of his own genius and status. While he has little capacity to accurately assess his own abilities or prospects, he cruises through life on the sheer force of his own sense of entitlement, dropping out of college and landing in the early '90s in New York City, a place brimming with both prosperity and desperation.

He cons his way from a bed at the YMCA into the posh Soho loft of a middle-aged book editor, while pursuing a young bartender, whom he also abuses and gaslights. He spins elaborate tales about his imaginary high-power job in real estate while, in reality, he passes his days watching comedy specials on VHS, smoking crack in Tompkins Square Park, and engaging in occasional sex work in the restrooms of Grand Central Station. His many failures, however, only serve to sharpen his one true gift- Doughty is a skilled predator, and the damage he inflicts on the women around him is real and remorseless. As shocking as it is illuminating, The Stalker confirms Paula Bomer as a contemporary master of the pitch-black comic novel.
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Imprint:   Soho Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 148mm, 
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9781641296267
ISBN 10:   1641296267
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Paula Bomer is the author of the novels Tante Eva and Nine Months and the story collections Inside Madeleine and Baby and Other Stories, as well as the essay collection Mystery and Mortality. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including New York Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, Fiction, and The Mississippi Review.

Reviews for The Stalker

Praise for Paula Bomer ""Bomer offers her characters no outs—only the creeping sense that they're doomed to swing forever between futile attempts at self-determination."" —The New York Times Book Review “Phenomenal.” —The Atlantic   “Dark, sharp, and hilarious.” —New York Magazine ""Haunting, defiant."" —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ""Bomer’s book will be talked about because she writes with such honesty about sex, but it is in matters of the soul she is most honest. These are women laid bare. Bomer dares us to look."" —The Rumpus “I inhaled this novel. Astute. Empathetic. Unsparing. Brilliant. Bomer pushes the emotional envelope—and then shoves harder.” —Thelma Adams, author of Bittersweet Brooklyn


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