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Born Slippy, Paperback / softback Book

Born Slippy Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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A globetrotting novel about the seductions of and resistance to toxic masculinity.

Frank Baltimore is a bit of a loser, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford.

One of his workers is a charismatic eighteen-year-old kid from Liverpool, Dmitry, in the US in the summer before university.

Dmitry is a charming sociopath, who develops a fascination with his autodidactic philosopher boss, as if perhaps, if he could figure out what made him tick, he could be less of a pig.

Dmitry heads to Asia and makes a neo-imperialist fortune, with a trail of corpses in his wake.

When Dmitry's office building in Taipei explodes in an enormous fireball, Frank heads to Asia, falls in love with Dmitry's wife, and things go from bad to worse.

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