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Anything Is Good

Anything Is Good

Waitzkin, Fred

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ISBN10: 1504094557
ISBN13: 9781504094559
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: Jun 25 2024
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Two Bronx boys take radically different paths in this novel about the limits of genius and the loss of home, by a terrifically gifted author (Anita Shreve, New York Times-bestselling author).

Ralph Silverman was a foreign film buff, a victim of bullies, and a boy genius. He held long conversations with his pet parakeet and spent countless hours on a computer, creating mesmerizing music and solving problems in philosophy. He was a friend of great scholars and the son of a wealthy outer-borough businessman with shady associates and a secret second family. And, as he begins to take over the story from the narrator, Ralph finds himself in South Florida, physically abused and expelled into a frightening world of the unhoused--with a broken pair of glasses, no money, and no shoes.

From the celebrated author of Searching for Bobby Fischer, Anything Is Good is a hypnotically compelling tale of a man haunted by the fate of his childhood buddy, and of that friend's pleasures and misfortunes as he navigates an unhoused life--a life more complex and dramatic than a bypasser might ever imagine.

Anything Is Good . . . offers a deeply affecting dive into the lives of the unhoused. Its shifting perspective and changing narrative voice builds to a clarion call for greater empathy and understanding. --Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March

Anything Is Good is the best portrait of homelessness I've read since George Orwell's Down and Out in London and Paris. . . . Superbly written. --Gabriel Byrne

Praise for Fred Waitzkin's previous books

Very few writers can deliver a story with this much heart . . . A great novel. --Sebastian Junger

I've seldom been so captivated by a book. --Tom Stoppard

A gem of a book. --The New York Times

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