Description: A Times (of London) Best Fiction Book of 2022 ". Clever lines drop down on these pages like flowers thrown on a casket. a zany increasingly dark comedy." - - The Washington Post 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.
Title: Here Goes Nothing
Barcode: 9781685890384
Publication Date: 4/4/2023