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Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride | Brian Sweany
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In the highly personal tradition of Jenny Offill and Elena Ferrante, "Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride" is loosely based on Sweany's tragicomic teenage life growing up in Indiana and his later years working in the New York publishing industry. Hunter S. Thompson biographer William McKeen called it, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" meets "Leave It to Beaver." And bestselling author Frank Bill adds, In the vein of David Sedaris or Chuck Palahniuk, Brian Sweany has written a tight satirical story that has you bent over with laughter one moment, then wiping away the tears the next minute. "
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Jocardo: "What I appreciate about the book is that I'm from a small town in Kentucky and the narrator Hank is from Indianapolis. I very much relate to the characters in the book. I'm going home for Christmas and can garantuee that I'll see people who stayed there and they will be doing the exact same thing. They don't change much. They're in the same bar, smoking the same cigarette."

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