The Dinner Party

<p><b>From the hilarious Booker-shortlisted author of <i>To Rise Again at a Decent Hour</i></b> <p><i>'He reflected in future retrospect on the evening and foretold every gesture every word. "I ca ...

<p><b>From the hilarious Booker-shortlisted author of <i>To Rise Again at a Decent Hour</i></b> <p><i>'He reflected in future retrospect on the evening and foretold every gesture every word. "I can't do it " he said. "I can predict everything that will happen from the moment they arrive to the little kiss on the cheek goodbye and I just can't goddamn do it."'</i>
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The Dinner Party</i> immerses us in the comic and strange realities of modern life as we journey through the lives of the unlovable the unloved and those who love too much: Jack who nervously tries to befriend the surly removal man by buying him a latte and a croissant; Sarah who endlessly imagines how her evening would have been better had she only chosen a different restaurant; Joe who spends a night alone at the office and surreptitiously starts to rearrange his colleagues' belongings. <p>These are stories about the infinite possibilities of a person's life from an agonizingly funny and original writer.</p>