The Men Can't Be Saved
By
Ben Purkert
Read by
Jonathan Todd Ross
Release:
08/01/2023
Release:
11/15/2023
Release:
11/15/2023
Runtime:
9h 11m
Runtime:
9h 11m
Runtime:
9h 11m
Quantity:
“Jonathan Todd Ross’s performance captures the growing unreliability of this novel’s narrator, while maintaining the story’s humor and tragedy…The performance’s tone is crucial, especially when Seth faces a spiritual reckoning. Ross keeps finding the right notes. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
AudioFile
A knockout 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. He's the agency's hottest new star, or at least he wants his coworker crush to think so. But while he's busy drooling over his future corner office, the walls crumble around him.
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 frat house than a boardroom. Seth tries to forget Moon and rediscover his spiritual self; he studies Kabbalah with an Orthodox
rabbi by day while popping illegal prescription pills by night. But with each misstep, Seth strays further from salvation-though he might get there, if he could only get out of his own way.
In his debut novel, Ben Purkert incisively peels back the layers of the male ego, revealing what's rotten and what might be redeemed. Brimming with wit, irreverence, and soul-searching, The Men Can't Be Saved is a startlingly original examination of work, sex, addiction, religion, branding, and ourselves.
Seth is a junior copywriter whose latest tagline just went viral. He's the agency's hottest new star, or at least he wants his coworker crush to think so. But while he's busy drooling over his future corner office, the walls crumble around him.
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 frat house than a boardroom. Seth tries to forget Moon and rediscover his spiritual self; he studies Kabbalah with an Orthodox
rabbi by day while popping illegal prescription pills by night. But with each misstep, Seth strays further from salvation-though he might get there, if he could only get out of his own way.
In his debut novel, Ben Purkert incisively peels back the layers of the male ego, revealing what's rotten and what might be redeemed. Brimming with wit, irreverence, and soul-searching, The Men Can't Be Saved is a startlingly original examination of work, sex, addiction, religion, branding, and ourselves.
Release:
2023-08-01
2023-11-15
2023-11-15
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
9h 11m
9h 11m
9h 11m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.7 lb
0.5 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9798890590336
9798212891165
9798212891172
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