The Mutual Friend
the unmissable debut novel from the co-creator of How I Met Your Mother
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- 3,99 €
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- 3,99 €
Publisher Description
'The Mutual Friend is GREAT. Carter Bays always finds the heart and truth in all of his humour. I just loved it. Put down the phones. Unless you're reading The Mutual Friend on it' Jason Segel
'I love this love story! The dialogue is so good, also it's very funny. What more could I want?' Mindy Kaling
New York, 2015. In a city of more than 8 million people, there are always new places to visit, new connections to be made, new experiences to be shared.
But not for Alice Quick. Determined to finally take her MCAT exam and become a doctor, this has to be a summer of no distractions. So it's a shame that her chaotic roommate Roxy is persistently getting her into trouble, not the most convenient timing for her millionaire brother Bill to decide to embark upon a spiritual search for the meaning of life and plain inconvenient that Alice just can't seem to put down her phone.
And then there's the biggest distraction of all, threatening to permanently derail all of her plans: love.
Filled with warmth, humour, and heart, THE MUTUAL FRIEND is an unforgettable debut novel that perfectly captures the choreography of navigating life and love amidst the chaos of contemporary life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bays, the cocreator of the television show How I Met Your Mother, debuts with an unwieldy story involving a bunch of people whose lives occasionally intersect in New York City. Tech millionaire Bill Quick, developer of an app called MeWantThat, finds meaning in Buddhism, while his wife, Marianne, spends her time shopping for the perfect piece of high-priced real estate. Bill's adopted sister, Alice—currently a nanny with aspirations to become a doctor—navigates the treacherous shoals of online dating. Generally, everyone is always on their phones, delivering an unsubtle message about the characters' disconnection from real life. The bare-bones plot revolves primarily around Alice's attempts to achieve her goals, and sprinkled in are light moments stemming from the comic value of characters such as the elderly, dick-pic-sending New York City mayor Spiderman (pronounced Speedermin), and of a dating app called Suitoronomy. But while Bays's prose has a distinct flair, he tends to ramble, with the style haltingly alternating between pages-long run-on sentences and blocks of paragraphs with nothing but ellipses. Despite a few good gags, this doesn't add up to much. Correction: In an earlier version of this review, a character and a dating app were incorrectly described, and the mayor character was misnamed.
