Fuccboi, Sean Thor Conroe
Fuccboi, Sean Thor Conroe
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Fuccboi
A Novel

Author: Sean Thor Conroe

Narrator: Sean Thor Conroe

Unabridged: 7 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/25/2022

Synopsis

“Got under my skin in the way the best writing can.” —Sheila HetiA 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.“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

 

About 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on March 25, 2022

Reading Fuccboi was like pulling up to a bad car accident, and even though one of the drivers was at fault, you can’t help but feel sorry for everyone involved. In recent weeks, the autofiction novel Fuccboi has gotten a lot of press: Interview Magazine, Nylon, Vulture, The Guardian, New York Times,......more

Goodreads review by Barry on January 09, 2022

i think it's great and that's all that matters......more

Goodreads review by Meike on August 17, 2022

Conroe is praised by the likes of Sheila Heti, Tommy Orange, and Scott McClanahan, and compared to Bret Easton Ellis and Michel Houellebecq - but the $200k advance he collected for his debut has also made some alt-lit hipsters whine loudly in the bleachers. Currently, the text is overshadowed by acc......more

Goodreads review by Tom on February 03, 2022

The controversy around this book is fucking stupid - you can't plagiarise a writing style. End of. The book itself is a strange mix of utterly fresh and ultimately pointless. For the first 150 pages I was so excited by the style, so intrigued by Sean's character and felt he was building up to saying......more

Goodreads review by Chanecka on February 09, 2022

I have only decided to piece together some thoughts about this book because it may be the only objective review this book has. I really enjoyed this book. It is audacious. I liked being in this character's head. I liked that actions didn't not always match up with his ideologies. I loved the ranting......more

Quotes

“Got under my skin in the way the best writing can.”—SHEILA HETI

“Blazes a sonic trail through the tangles of experience. A contemporary künstleroman—a coming of age of an artist. So much about the struggle to find a nourishing and communally beneficial but still honest and not self-suppressing way to be a man.”—SAM LIPSYTE, author of HARK

“A completely unique voice . . . sounds like no one I know.”—SCOTT MCCLANAHAN, author of THE SARAH BOOK

“Conroe delivers a striking and hyper-stylized debut about a young male writer, also named Sean Thor Conroe, whose lexicon reflects Drake lyrics and the scrolls of Reddit and Twitter. . . Along the way, Sean demonstrates a passion for Nietzsche, Bolaño, and Wittgenstein. . . An undeniably rich mix of ingredients for autofiction.”—PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY

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