The Best of Youth

Name: The Best of Youth
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Michael Dahlie
ISBN: 9781624063121

Author: Michael Dahlie

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 8 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 01/28/2013

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Henry Lang is a smart but unassuming young man with a degree from Harvard and limited social skills. After his parents are killed in an accident, leaving him a substantial inheritance, he moves to Brooklyn to see if he can make it in publishing, perhaps fall in love, and attend the sorts of parties and events that he imagines twenty-somethings in Brooklyn frequent. Unfortunately, Henry is somewhat of a target for other, more savvy Brooklynites. He finds himself in a string of increasingly troubling situations and demoralizing romantic adventures. Things finally fall apart for him in catastrophic ways when he agrees to ghost-write a young adult novel for a charismatic but drug-addicted and sometimes-violent actor. Will Henry lose everything he has to save his integrity?

About Michael Dahlie

Michael Dahlie won the 2009 PEN/Hemingway Award for his novel A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living, and he received a Whiting Writer's Award in 2010. He is currently the Booth Tarkington Writer-in-Residence at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on September 07, 2015

The protagonist's name is Henry. He's 23 years old, and he lives in New York, because New York is where all the hip people live. As the book opens, Henry's parents die in a car accident and leave him $15 million. The exorbitant sum is somewhat baffling, as the $15 million doesn't figure into the sto......more

Goodreads review by Brenda on April 20, 2015

I don't know what to say. Normally I don't like reviewing books that I can't give at least three stars to, but I figured since this was a copy I received free I should review it. The Best of Youth just wasn't anything special for me. I've read the reviews that others have written, and I can't agree.......more

Goodreads review by Sean on December 29, 2012

Really solid from start to finish. I'm predisposed to like this one as a result of an alarming amount of similarities with the protagonist, but the prose is excellent and has that effortless quality that always seems to remind me just how purely enjoyable reading a novel can/should be. I wouldn't sa......more

Goodreads review by Brian on January 10, 2018

Nothing special here......more

Goodreads review by Emily on March 17, 2013

I cannot get a handle on this book and it's really irking me. I don't know whether this was the author's point. The main character is my age (ok.. maybe a bit younger) and yet so unlike anyone I've ever met, especially anyone who lives in Brooklyn. The fact he has money doesn't say enough about his......more