From a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about a musician climbing back from rock bottom.As winter deepens in snowbound Pollard, Illinois, thirtysomething Francis Falbo is holed up in his attic apartment, recovering from a series of traumas his mothers death, his beloved wifes desertion, and his onceascendant rock bands irreconcilable breakup. Francis hasnt shaved in months, hasnt so much as changed out of his bathrobe "the uniform of a Life in Default" for nine days.Other than the agoraphobia that continues to hold him hostage, all he has left is his childhood home, whose remaining rooms he rents to a cast of eccentric tenants, including a pair of former circus performers whose daughter has gone missing. The tightknit community has already survived a blizzard, but there is more danger in store for the citizens of Pollard before summer arrives. Francis is himself caught up in these troubles as he becomes increasingly entangled in the affairs of others, with results that are by turns disastrous, hysterical, and ultimately healing.Fusing consummate wit with the seriousness attending an adulthood gone awry, Rapp has written an uproarious and affecting novel about what we do and where we go when our lives have crumbled around us. Sharpedged but tenderhearted, Know Your Beholder introduces us to one of the most lovably flawed characters in recent fiction, a man at last able to collect the jagged pieces of his dreams and begin anew, in both...

Binding: Hardback;354 pages; Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA; Classification: FA; Weight: 700 g; Dimensions: 164 x 243 x 35

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