The Green Suit Author:Dwight Allen T. Coraghessan Boyle has praised Dwight Allen's The Green Suit for its "grace and elegance that hearkens back to an earlier time . . . a book that precisely and affectingly captures a time and place." Newsweek called it "wry and subtle," and the Chicago Tribune described it as fiction that "speaks closely to our lives." — <... more »i>The Green Suit centers on the hapless Peter Sackrider and his well-to-do Kentucky family, following them through the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. After college, Peter does what wistful English majors do: He moves to New York City and gets a job as an editorial assistant at a publishing house. From there, he drifts around the country, falling in and out of love with a series of bright, confident women, and never quite fulfills his literary ambitions. It isn't until he's faced with a family crisis that Peter realizes he is the man he aspired to be but always feared he wasn't.
Reminiscent of John Updike's Rabbit novels, The Green Suit is a remarkable first book from an exciting new voice in literary fiction.« less