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THE MEN CAN'T BE SAVED
A rollicking debut novel that tackles a haunting question: What do our jobs do to our souls?
Seth is a junior copywriter whose latest tagline just went viral. But this professional triumph won't fix his personal lifehis coworker crush won't be seen with him, and his only comfort is in pills.
When his job lets him go, he can't let go of his job. Thankfully, one former colleague can't let him go either: Robert Moon McCloone, a skeezy on-the-rise exec better suited to a dorm room than a boardroom. When Seth gets taken in by an overeager Orthodox rabbi, he tries to forget Moon and replace his professional ambitions with higher purposebut is he only digging himself deeper?
In his debut novel, Purkert incisively explores two kinds of toxic masculinity: The guys who see no problem with their bad behavior, and those who don't see it as bad at all. Brimming with wit, irreverence, and soul-searching, The Men Can't Be Saved is a startlingly original examination of work, religion, sex, drugs, and ourselves.
Ben Purkert is the author of the poetry collection For the Love of Endings. His work appears in the New Yorker, the Nation, and elsewhere. He is the founder of Back Draft, a Guernica interview series focused on revision and the creative process. He holds degrees from Harvard and NYU and currently teaches at Rutgers.
Seth is a junior copywriter whose latest tagline just went viral. But this professional triumph won't fix his personal lifehis coworker crush won't be seen with him, and his only comfort is in pills.
When his job lets him go, he can't let go of his job. Thankfully, one former colleague can't let him go either: Robert Moon McCloone, a skeezy on-the-rise exec better suited to a dorm room than a boardroom. When Seth gets taken in by an overeager Orthodox rabbi, he tries to forget Moon and replace his professional ambitions with higher purposebut is he only digging himself deeper?
In his debut novel, Purkert incisively explores two kinds of toxic masculinity: The guys who see no problem with their bad behavior, and those who don't see it as bad at all. Brimming with wit, irreverence, and soul-searching, The Men Can't Be Saved is a startlingly original examination of work, religion, sex, drugs, and ourselves.
Ben Purkert is the author of the poetry collection For the Love of Endings. His work appears in the New Yorker, the Nation, and elsewhere. He is the founder of Back Draft, a Guernica interview series focused on revision and the creative process. He holds degrees from Harvard and NYU and currently teaches at Rutgers.
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Published 2023-08-01 by The Overlook Press |