Sleep-over Artist

Writing with the sparkling wit & insight of his highly praised debut, Seduction Theory ("Brilliantly captures the great expectations & recurring ambivalence of youth."--New York Times), Thomas Beller continues to plumb the adventures of his hero, Alex Fader, a youthful existentialist & sensualist with an insatiable appetite for trouble. The Sleep-Over Artist is an account of critical stages in Alex's life, mapping his progress from youthful delinquent to filmmaker whose career begins when he makes a documentary film exposing the prep school from which he has been expelled. Alex longs for the taste of family life that the early death of his father has denied him. As a young boy he sleeps over at his friends' houses & ingratiates himself with their families; as a young man he extends his sleep-overs to the lives of women, culminating in the ultimate sleep-over--an affair in England with a glamorous, slightly older woman, the mother of a young boy. Beller has a pitch-perfect ear for emotional nuance & a microscopic eye for rendering the wordless moments when a relationship catches fire & all too often begins to falter. The high-wire tension that electrifies The Sleep-Over Artist is Beller's ingenious portrait of a young man who longs to disappear & belong all at the same time.Beller, Thomas is the author of 'Sleep-over Artist' with ISBN 9780393049251 and ISBN 0393049256.