![]() ![]() Eleanor was already at the bar, waiting for him. Meanwhile, Eleanor and Sam are in love, they live together and everything, and it''s been a long week of missed deadlines and unread invoices and, as I mentioned, no snow, so they went out for a drink and, wouldn''t you know it!, the moment Sam walked into the bar at 4:30 at night on a Sunday afternoon, snow fell, hip high, from the sky, and it just kept falling and falling and falling until, one day, far in the distant future, it stopped. Then there''ll be a history lesson, followed by a reasonably good dinner, but after that, it''s the end of the world. The sky will look like you''ve never seen it before. Later, tanks will roll through the streets. Later, Eleanor''ll ask him to tell her a story. People''ve wrapped the bare and shaking trees that line the streets in Christmas lights. It is 4:30 at night on a Sunday afternoon. The sun has gone down and all around is darkness. In the aisles of the supermarket, the landlords gather. It''s so cold outside that you could execute billionaires in the street and it hasn''t even snowed. ![]() A bold and open-hearted work, like nothing else." -Amelia Gray, author of Gutshot "Shades of Garc Excerpt from Book IT''S BROOKLYN. Fletcher is the ecstatic, wild troubadour for our perpetual hope, our national grief." -Hilary Leichter, author of Temporary "Fletcher's full-throated talent shines in this tender, funny, time-jumping novel spanning faith, love, and the modern world. Prepare yourself for the most love-swept and soul-throttling prose this side of the apocalypse. Sasha Fletcher's sentences leap off the page like a heart out of a chest. Sasha Fletcher is a rare gem of a writer, and this novel is one of a kind." -Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine " Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World is exuberant, torrential, a carnival and a funeral and a chorus to a song you remember never hearing. Review Quote "This book roils with beauty, with enthusiasm, with love for both the miniscule and oversized wonders of the world, it holds the griefs and violence of our moment tenderly in its outstretched hands and asks you, the reader, what we should do about them. ![]() He received his MFA from Columbia University. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Sasha Fletcher is the author of several chapbooks of poetry and a novella. Through scenes that poetically transform the mundane into the sublime and the absurd into the tragic, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World is about the exquisite beauty of being in love in a world that is falling apart. ![]() In a surreal, funny, and heart-breaking version of reality, Sasha Fletcher's highly anticipated first novel occupies that rare register that manages to speak to an increasingly incomprehensible world. At some point, the President is going to make some absolutely wild announcements that will only end in doom. He has three or four outstanding invoices that would each cover rent for a month. Sam lives with Eleanor and they are in love. It's so cold outside you could execute billionaires in the street about it. The Nile on eBay Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World by Sasha Fletcher A love story set in a bad dream about America, concerning permanent debt, secret police, making dinner, and unpaid invoices-right up until the end of the world. A bold and open-hearted work, like nothing else.". Fletcher is the ecstatic, wild troubadour for our perpetual hope, our national grief.". Sasha Fletcher is a rare gem of a writer, and this novel is one of a kind.". Verkäufer: the_nile ✉️ (1.176.159) 98.1%,Īrtikelnummer: 144959623630 Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World by Sasha Fletcher (English) Paperback. ![]()
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