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Once I started, I couldn’t
stop. It felt like falling down the stairs....
Meet David Gould: abandoned by his girlfriend,
pushing the deadline for his first book, tormented by writer’s
block, and obsessed with the impossibly sexy, overwhelmingly
alive diaries young people keep online. Outside it’s a beautiful,
Brooklyn summer. But inside his apartment David is sleeping
in, screening calls, draining beer after beer, and dreaming
of Miss Misery—aka
twenty-two-year-old provocateur Cath Kennedy—a
total stranger with impeccable music taste and an enviable
nightlife.
now meet David Gould online. Here, in
his fictional diary, he’s a downtown DJ and an inveterate
night owl, drinking and charming countless girls until the
sun comes up.
But when Miss Misery moves to New York
City and begins canoodling with an insufferable hipster, David’s
diary mysteriously begins updating itself. The reason? David
Gould has a doppelgänger, an obnoxious shadow set on claiming
David’s newly glamorous life as his own. Even worse for David,
the phone calls from his editor are becoming increasingly
desperate, and the voice mails from his girlfriend—an
ocean away—are becoming
more and more distant. And then there are all of the instant
messages from seventeen-year-old Ashleigh Bortch, an emo kid
in Salt Lake City with an inappropriate crush on David and
a knack for showing up at precisely the wrong time. Forced
out of his apartment, David Gould is facing the fight of his
life.
with humor, heart, and a vibrant, genre-jumping
soundtrack, Andy Greenwald captures the essence of what it
means to be young and struggling with identity in the new
century. From cyberspace to nightclub bathrooms, from New
York City to Utah, Miss Misery is a fast-paced, funny story
about the timeless need to become the main character in your
own life.
Andy Greenwald is a Senior
Contributing Writer at Spin. His writing has also appeared
in The Washington Post, Blender, The Village Voice, MTV
Magazine, Complex, Magnet, and assorted other websites,
newspapers, and magazines. Originally from Philadelphia, Greenwald
has also made numerous appearances on MTV, MTV2, VH-1, BBC,
and ABC Radio. Nothing Feels Good is his first book.
He lives in Brooklyn, NY. —From
AndyGreenwald.com
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