At the Bottom of Everything, Ben Dolnick
At the Bottom of Everything, Ben Dolnick
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At the Bottom of Everything

Author: Ben Dolnick

Narrator: Chris Patton

Unabridged: 6 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/03/2013

Synopsis

This stunning novel of friendship, guilt, and madness tells the story of two friends torn apart by a terrible secretand the dark adventure that neither of them ever meant to embark upon. Its been ten years since the incident, and Adam has long decided hes better off without his former best friend, Thomas. Adam is working as a tutor, sleeping with the mother of a student, spending lonely nights looking up his ex-girlfriend on Facebook, and pretending that he has some more meaningful plan for an adult life. But when he receives an email from Thomas mother begging for his help, he finds himself drawn back into his old friends world and to the past hes tried so desperately to forget. As Adam embarks upon a magnificently strange and unlikely journey, Ben Dolnick spins a tale of spiritual reckoning, of search and escape, of longing, and of reaching for redemptiona tale of near hallucinatory power.

About Ben Dolnick

Ben Dolnick is
the author of the novels You Know Who You Are and Zoology,
and his work has appeared in the
New York Times and on NPR. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife.

Reviews

Goodreads review by switterbug (Betsey) on February 02, 2014

Adam and Thomas were best friends, although quite different. Thomas was small, skinny, nerdish, super-smart, but with poor social skills that kept him from having girlfriends and joining cliques or groups. Thomas had his jock persona that allowed him to move easily within groups in school. But, some......more

Goodreads review by Amy on December 18, 2013

I wasn't sure how to rate this one; I enjoyed the narrator's voice and thought it well-written, but at the end I was all 'wtf?' and that always unsettles me. The story of two outcasts pairing up as boys is not a new one, and the story of their growing apart is not a new one; the addition of the - w......more

Goodreads review by Mark on September 29, 2013

This novel is just chock full of all my favorite literary subjects: pain, guilt, truth, redemption. The hook is that Adam and Thomas, who had been best friends in school, are changed by an event. This event causes Adam to retreat from Thomas for ten years, until he is pulled back into Thomas's life......more

Goodreads review by Keyaira on November 20, 2018

it was confusing but good......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on November 10, 2020

Coming of age, plot light fiction where characters slowly realize how to express their desires I preferred Dolnick's first book The Ghost Notebooks, but that is due to style. The first had a more direct plot, and the supernatural element really pushed it forward. This tale is trying to be different. T......more

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