Born in Los Angeles, Ryan Ruby was educated at Columbia University, Oxford University and the University of Chicago. He has been a bookseller in Los Angeles, a tour guide in Berlin, a layabout in New Orleans and a lecturer in philosophy at the City University of New York. His fiction, literary criticism and political commentary have appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including Paris Review Daily, n + 1,The Baffler, Conjunctions, Dissent and Lapham's Quarterly. He has translated two novellas from the French for Readux Books. He lives in Berlin.
A brilliant and captivating novel, dark as Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels, with a setting that reminds one of Evelyn Waugh and texture that evokes P.G. Wodehouse. It's as sharp as a tack, and the pages turn themselves. - Benjamin Hale, author of The Evolution of Bruno LittlemoreA gripping, intellectually agile book that dresses like a coming of age narrative, but soon reveals itself to be something new, wholly original and philosophically rich ... an existential Whydunnit rather than a Whodunnit, this masterful work by Ryan Ruby will thrill you, and give you much ominous food for thought. - Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have A Body Like MineBrilliantly erudite, deeply engaging, and full of heart. Ryan Ruby has captured something surprising - the ineluctable sadness of youth. - Lauren Elkin, author of Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
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