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Tom Shone (Author)

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Publication Date: 2 July 2009

You meet everyone in the rooms...

English literary agent Patrick Miller came to New York dreaming of joining the big league, only to find himself selling celebrity dog books.

But when he spots the legendary novelist Douglas Kelsey on the street and follows him into an AA meeting, a world of opportunity beckons. Patrick enters a den of sex addicts, junkies and pill-poppers, all rubbing shoulders with the reclusive Kelsey.

Who knew that sobriety offered such networking possibilities? Or that the women would be so attractive?

There's only one small problem. Patrick doesn't have a problem - not with alcohol, nor with drugs, just with that little thing they call the truth. As everyone is beginning to find out...

Part Nick Hornby, part Jay McInerney, with a dash of vermouth, In the Rooms is a warm, sharply observed comedy about sex, lies and second chances.

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...entirely readable, amusing in parts and well written (Daily Mail )

It is rare for an author to exhibit such bravery (The Independent on Sunday )

[a] cutting comic debut novel (Sunday Times )

Laugh-out-loud funny (Toby Young ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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A brilliantly funny debut novel about getting clean and coming clean...
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4.0 out of 5 stars Easy Does It 29 Jun 2011
By Captain - Published on Amazon.com
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Viewed from the point of a recovering alcoholic the book is quite different than most reviewers see it. It is full of the funny, quirky, feeling, dilusional, denial that we experience done up in a new way. It also portrays the out of control spiral we get into as we try to over-control our lives. I saw myself on every page. All the material anyone need for an AA Step 1.
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5.0 out of 5 stars It's as good as it gets 12 Jun 2011
By William O. Wing - Published on Amazon.com
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I found Tom Shone in one of his razor sharp literary columns ripping some poor soul about something which I can't remember; however, his writing was so extraordinary that I was moved to find another of his offerings. Up popped "In the Rooms."
In my lifetime I've only read a handful of authors whom I would classify as "the best of the best." Tom Shone rests comfortably near the top of that list. Besides telling a story that is filled with a laugh-till-you-cry brand of slightly bent British humor, his literary mechanics are simply flawless. Rarely, if ever, have I found myself more absorbed in the quality of the author's writing than I did in his very interesting story. He writes with such flair and pace that I would revisit passage after passage just to savor his incredible style and skill. Carefully woven subtle punch lines and over your shoulder looks create a fast moving can't-wait-for-the-next-page kind of read. It's the type of novel that is so well written, it makes a new author ponder another vocation since he'll never be able to obtain Tom Shone's level of excellence ... I know, I'm that scribe.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Over-thinking 20 May 2011
By D. P. Birkett - Published on Amazon.com
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The book operates on two levels. It is a sophisticated satire on literary life in New York City, full of insider references to the high end of the world of books and writers. It can be read for pure entertainment and is very funny. Patrick Miller, the first person narrator, writes in the style of the laddish Brits (Hornby, Barnes and both Amises) and admires the American minimalist dirty realists (Carver and Ford etc) and has some clever things to say about them.
It is also a profound investigation of the AA paradox. The paradox is the AA insistence that you must surrender some part of your reasoning power although reason is what makes you want to stop drinking. How can brilliant creative people reconcile themselves to this?
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