Giving Up, Mike Steeves
Giving Up, Mike Steeves
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Giving Up

Author: Mike Steeves

Narrator: Andrew Bigelow, Nathalie Toriel

Unabridged: 5 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW

Published: 02/13/2018


Synopsis

At times funny, at other times sad, and more than often a mixture of the two, Giving Up by Mike Steeves is a deeply felt account of what goes on in the inner sanctum of a modern couple’s apartment.In grappling with the line between what happened and what might have happened, Steeves gives voice to the anguish of a generation of people who grew up with great expectations, and are now settling into their own personal failures and compromises: James is obsessed with completing his life’s work. Mary is worried about their problems starting a family, and is scared that their future might not turn out as she’d planned. In the span of a few hours on an ordinary night in a non-descript city, two relatively small events will have enormous consequences on James’ and Mary’s lives, both together and apart.With an unrelenting prose style and pitch-black humour, Giving Up addresses difficult topics—James’s ruinous ambition, and Mary’s quiet anguish—in a funny and relatable way.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian on December 01, 2021

So many things bothered me about this book: the way it was divided into two main sections voiced by the two main characters, a husband & wife named James and Mary (with a shorter third section combining them both at the end) that were each essentially one long run on paragraph; How repetitive the id......more

Goodreads review by Michel Siskoid on May 31, 2018

Canadian writer Mike Steeves' first novel, 2015's Giving Up is made up of three... I'll call them tirades, each just one paragraph long, each paragraph running for 50-75 pages. Once a character starts sharing, he or she just doesn't stop. It's a stream of reproachful consciousness, funny and snarky,......more