The Men Cant Be Saved, Ben Purkert
The Men Cant Be Saved, Ben Purkert
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The Men Can't Be Saved

Author: Ben Purkert

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Unabridged: 9 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/01/2023


Synopsis

A knockout debut novel that tackles a haunting question: What do our jobs do to our souls?

Seth is a junior copywriter whose latest tagline just went viral. He’s the agency’s hottest new star, or at least he wants his coworker crush to think so. But while he’s busy drooling over his future corner office, the walls crumble around him.

When his job lets him go, he can’t let go of his job. Thankfully, one former colleague can’t let him go either: Robert “Moon” McCloone, a skeezy on-the-rise exec better suited to a frat house than a boardroom. Seth tries to forget Moon and rediscover his spiritual self; he studies Kabbalah with an Orthodox
rabbi by day while popping illegal prescription pills by night. But with each misstep, Seth strays further from salvation—though he might get there, if he could only get out of his own way.

In his debut novel, Ben Purkert incisively peels back the layers of the male ego, revealing what’s rotten and what might be redeemed. Brimming with wit, irreverence, and soul-searching, The Men Can’t Be Saved is a startlingly original examination of work, sex, addiction, religion, branding, and ourselves.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica

At first I figured I would try it, though I found our protagonist deeply offputting. He is supposed to be offputting, that much is clear. He is, in short, the confidence of a mediocre white man personified. And I was willing to see what Purkert wanted to do with this ridiculous man. But then it turn......more

I didn’t find this to be the bitingly funny work satire that was advertised, nor the insightful and revealing exploration of 21st-century masculinity that some critics praised. It’s the mostly uninteresting chronicle of a none-too-perceptive dude on a mostly unfulfilled journey of self-discovery…fea......more