Bad Teeth

Name: Bad Teeth
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Dustin Long
ISBN: 9781480585225

Author: Dustin Long

Narrator: Dustin Long

Unabridged: 7 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 03/25/2014

Categories: Fiction, Satire, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Four interlocking narratives set in four American cities form a richly comic feast about love, academia, an elusive Tibetan novelist—and SOFA, a protest group so mysterious its very initials are open to interpretation.Bad Teeth follows a cast of young literary men and women, each in a period of formation, in four very American cities—Brooklyn, Bloomington, Berkeley, and Bakersfield. A Pynchonesque treat, it’s four (or more) books in one: a bohemian satire, a campus comedy, a stoner’s reverie, and a quadruple love story. The plots coalesce around the search for a mysterious author, Jigme Drolma (“the Tibetan David Foster Wallace”), who might in fact be a plagiarist. But how does the self-styled arch-magician Nicholas Bendix figure into this? What will happen when SOFA unleashes the “Apocalypse”? And what’s to become of Lump, the cat?

About Dustin Long

Dustin Long is the author of Icelander. He is currently finishing a Ph.D. in American Literature, and he teaches literature at a private institution in Manhattan. He lives in Brooklyn with his fiancée and son.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on May 16, 2020

okay, i was really enjoying this the whole way through, but i was a bit let down by the ending. it is a very self-conscious book, and very very funny. if you think omphaloskepsis is funny. and i happen to. it's a cheeky story that takes place in four b-cities: brooklyn, bloomington, berkeley, and ba......more

Goodreads review by Corey on May 27, 2014

A funny, well-written, meticulously plotted novel, and my introduction to the work of Dustin Long (I've yet to read Icelander, but I probably will soon). I've heard a lot of comparisons of this books to Pynchon and to Infinite Jest, but in a lot of ways it reminded me of The Broom of The System. The......more

Goodreads review by Denise Huntington on March 27, 2014

I received "Bad Teeth: A Novel" by Dustin Long in a Goodreads giveaway in exchange for my review of the book. Just to put my review in context, I am a 62 year old retired software engineer. A woman. I am a very eclectic reader and will read a book from any genre as long as it holds my interest. "Bad T......more

Quotes

“Long’s novel, with its savvy humor, intelligent satire, and rewarding prose, is wildly successful.” —Booklist“A literary mash-up that is both a send-up of modern academic life and a heartfelt novel of loves lost and purposes vainly sought…a wondrous, funny, and philosophical novel.” —Publishers Weekly“A group of young writers, scattered from Brooklyn to Berkeley, are all on the hunt for a enigmatic scribe, known as ‘the Tibetan David Foster Wallace,’ in this comic take on today’s literary scene from the author of the bestselling Icelander.” —DuJour