Published: Aug. 26, 2012
Words: 79,860 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452480367

Short description

Nothingness unfolds during a rainy March in Massachusetts. Watch the townspeople go from suburban hockey fans one minute to a superstitious mob the next. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll believe anything.

Extended description

Torrential rains are turning Dan Geistman's hometown into a disaster area of closed roads and wild rumors. Far from uniting the community against a common threat, the floodwaters just add to the reservoir of irrational suburban discontent. The locals need to find someone to blame for the whole mess, and skeptics like Dan are the perfect scapegoat.

Nothingness is a black comedy about belief and delusion, set in the Biblical deluge of March 2010 in the American northeast. This is a place where men are men, mobs are unruly, and cars are very dangerous.

Dan's estranged father returns from battling 9/11 conspiracy theorists in New York City—just in time to fix his ex's broken sump pump. Dan's mother is teaching Don Quixote to yet another roomful of bored university students while drinking her way through a string of futile online dates. For Dan, a high school student in rain-besieged Framingham, dealing with his family's dissolution leads to drug abuse, bad moods and poor decision.. (Read more) Torrential rains are turning Dan Geistman's hometown into a disaster area of closed roads and wild rumors. Far from uniting the community against a common threat, the floodwaters just add to the reservoir of irrational suburban discontent. The locals need to find someone to blame for the whole mess, and skeptics like Dan are the perfect scapegoat.

Nothingness is a black comedy about belief and delusion, set in the Biblical deluge of March 2010 in the American northeast. This is a place where men are men, mobs are unruly, and cars are very dangerous.

Dan's estranged father returns from battling 9/11 conspiracy theorists in New York City—just in time to fix his ex's broken sump pump. Dan's mother is teaching Don Quixote to yet another roomful of bored university students while drinking her way through a string of futile online dates. For Dan, a high school student in rain-besieged Framingham, dealing with his family's dissolution leads to drug abuse, bad moods and poor decisions. As the deluge continues, the townsfolk get water on the brain. They begin to interpret incidents of teenage mischief as Satanic rituals and abandon their skepticism like an old mattress in a flooded basement. When a charismatic pastor launches a crusade against the plague of doubt in town, things quickly get out of hand. At the close of hockey season in Massachusetts, there's nothing like a good old-fashioned witch hunt to take people’s minds off their watery woes.
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Tags

religion, satire, hockey, skepticism, conspiracy theories, black humor dark humor, truthers inside job

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Reviews

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Review by: Rob Kirkpatrick on Sep. 24, 2012 :
Think your life is a train wreck? A tale of schadenfreude in the Atlantic northeast, this book will let you eves-drop on interlocking lives that are at the same time familiar and over the top. Told in a wit as dry as the setting is wet. Mr. Farrell creates a crazy world you might just end up in, given an apocalyptic nor'ester and a Greek chorus of late night radio conspiracy call ins.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: thylacinthine on Sep. 18, 2012 :
There are some books you are sad to finish, and this was one of them. I could have happily gone on reading this book for a LOT longer. Nothingness is a wonderfully vivid and captivating story, with a cast of complex, lovable and funny characters, all stuck in an increasingly chaotic situation, that I couldn't put down.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

Review by: Rowena Murray on Sep. 11, 2012 :
Reads like a proper book!
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Muhammad Al-Hussaini on Sep. 03, 2012 :
A magisterial cocktail of wit, joyfulness, paranoia and vivid humanity, where superstition and conspiracy collide with little league in a brilliant rollercoaster through the American psyche. Raw colours and beautifully written.
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Review by: David Nelson on Aug. 29, 2012 :
Steve Farrell will keep you on the edge of your seat. This is an awesome novel and will make you wonder if this could really happen. I could not put it down. David Nelson
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