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Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz is a darkly humorous novel that delves into the exploration of life after death. The story follows Angus, who embarks on a confusingly mundane journey in the afterlife, while his widow, Gracie, tries to process his passing. The book presents a unique premise where the afterlife mirrors reality, filled with dark humor, existential themes, and Kafkaesque confusion. Despite the heavy subject matter, the witty observations and quirky interactions between characters like Angus and Gracie provide a humorous and thought-provoking narrative.
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Sensitive Topics/Content Warnings
Content warnings include themes of death, existential dread, dark humor, and potential depressive undertones.
Has Romance?
There is a medium level of romance, primarily centered on the relationship between the characters Angus and Gracie.
From The Publisher:
A Times (of London) Best Fiction Book of 2022
A wildly inventive, savagely funny and topical novel about love, mortality and the afterlife, by the Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole .
Angus is a reformed ne'er-do-well looking forward to the birth of his first child when he's murdered by a man who is in love with his pregnant wife Gracie. Having never believed in God, heaven or hell, Angus finds himself in the afterlife - a place that provides more questions than answers. As a worldwide pandemic finally reaches the shores of Australia, the afterlife starts to get very crowded and Angus finds a way to reconnect with his wife Gracie and maybe even seek revenge on his murderer...
Here Goes Nothing is a novel of exhilarating originality and scope about birth, death and everything in between and after by 'a writer of prodigious talent' (Peter Carey) that contains a vision of the afterlife that rivals Dante's Divine Comedy and George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo, and the emmy-nominated The Good Place .
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1 comment(s)
This book was brilliant. A little "too" brilliant. It had so much wittiness and prose that made sense to me, that I ended up depressing my self. Only because the authors view of what the afterlife is, is what I have felt and feared in my heart for years.
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Here Goes Nothing?
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