Warp, Lev Grossman
Warp, Lev Grossman
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Warp

Author: Lev Grossman

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne, Lev Grossman

Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2016

Synopsis

The lost literary origin story of #1 bestseller Lev Grossman - including a new foreword about how and why he wrote his first novel: "It is the intense, concentrated, boiled-down essence of the unhappiest years of my life."

Twenty-something Hollis Kessler languishes in a hopelessly magician-less world (with the exception of a fleet-footed nymph named Xanthe) not too far from where he graduated college. His friends do, too. They sleep late, read too much, drink too much, talk too much, and work and earn and do way too little. But Hollis does have an obsession: there's another world going on in his head, a world of excitement and danger and starships and romance, and it's telling him that it's time to stop dreaming and get serious.

This re-publication of Lev Grossman's debut novel, Warp, shows the roots of his Magicians hero Quentin Coldwater in a book that is for anyone (and everyone) who has ever felt adrift in their own life.

With a Preface read by the Author

About The Author

Lev Grossman is the author of the New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy. The third book in the trilogy, The Magician's Land, was published in 2014 and was a #1 bestseller. An hour-long TV drama based on the series will begin airing on Syfy in early 2016.Grossman has been Time magazine's book critic and lead technology writer for over a decade, and he has also written essays and criticism for the New York Times, Salon, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, the Village Voice and the Believer, among others. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Megan

Apparently I'm in the minority here based on other reviews I've seen because I absolutely loved this book. No, it's not action packed but it's wonderfully written in a nothing-happens-but-we-continue-to-exist-regardless sort of way....which is important and terribly difficult to portray. Talk about......more

Goodreads review by Michelle F

I always see reviewers say that they “soooo wanted to like this book, but...”;Warp was kind of the opposite for me. Here's the thing: the whole story is sparsely filled with disaffected douchewangs and self-propelled uselessness. No one in the book seems to genuinely care about anyone or anything, an......more

Goodreads review by Kallierose

I thought this book would never end, and considering the length of it (it's kinda short) that's saying something. A couple of days in the life of an over-privileged 20-something and all I could think was, "when is something going to happen?" To make it even more annoying, the guy has this inner monolo......more

Goodreads review by Maurice

While the premise sounded intriguing, i found it a bit misleading. This felt a little like a school assignment that went long. Nothing really happens. The writing was okay, lots of 80's pop culture references, but there was no propulsion, nothing keeping me in the story. I admit to a little skimming......more

Goodreads review by Blake

If you’re a fan of Lev Grossman, this is kind of a must read. Mind you, it isn’t a particularly good book, nor does much happen in it. Okay, nothing really happens. It’s very much a pretentious, post-college type first novel. Truth be told, I’m surprised it even found a publisher because, while any......more

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