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Free Book Friday: Attention. Deficit. Disorder. by Brad Listi

JK Evanczuk / Friday, March 12, 2010 View Comments

Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner Gillian for getting a free copy of They Is Us by Tama Janowitz.

Attention. Deficit. Disorder. by Brad Listi

This week, we are giving away a copy of Attention. Deficit. Disorder. by Brad Listi, the first great road novel of the 21st century and an impressive debut from a major new voice in American fiction. Days after his ex-girlfriend’s suicide, Wayne flies to San Francisco for her funeral. When he learns that she aborted their child, Wayne embarks upon a search for meaning that takes him to unusual places and through some of the most influential events of the past ten years. His journey takes him up and down the East Coast on foot, then over to Cuba where he meets the fishing guide who inspired Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, across the American West in an RV, ending up at the legendary Burning Man festival and an encounter with his soulmate, who turns out to be a six foot three giant of a woman in a purple cowboy hat. Brad Listi’s novel is a dazzling exploration of love and death that just so happens to include some drugs, prostitutes, naked cycling, Mantovani and the ingredients for a Molotov cocktail. It is one of the most inventive and rewarding debuts in years.

This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by The Friday Project. The Friday Project is the only publishing company that specialises in sourcing the brightest talent from the web and developing it into great books.

To enter the giveaway, all you have to do is comment in the space below. Make sure to tell us your email address so we can contact you if you win! We also recommend doing the following:

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  • Writing a one-sentence road trip story

Winner will be chosen randomly at 12pm on Friday, March 19 and notified via email. The winner must respond to our email within 48 hours, or a new winner will be randomly selected.

Good luck!

EDIT: Giveaway now closed. Congrats to this week’s winner PHM. Try your luck again in the new Free Book Friday with Warwick Collins’ Gents.

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  • http://straysyntax.wordpress.com Candice Mays

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  • John W.

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    I’m in! Sounds interesting.

  • Scott Kennedy

    Yes please!

  • Michael Carter

    Wow! I would really like to win this novel. It sounds great. Please enter Me
    Thanks

  • Angie

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  • Gillian

    Hurrah! Thank you! Where should I send my mailing address?

  • http://trickwithaknife.com PHM

    Would love to finally get a chance to read this book!

  • Alex

    My professor talked about this about two weeks ago.. interesting.

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    If you don’t give me Attention. Deficit. Disorder. by Brad Listi I’ll purchase it and pass pay it forward after I devour it. I’m in, now, pay it forward.

    Thank you,
    Ben C.

  • Lisa

    I would love to win a copy. It sounds really interesting.

  • Alex

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    Yes!

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    Sounds like a great book – would love a chance to win.

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    -Lindsay

    lindsay15photo@gmail.com

  • Olivia

    want! :)

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