WAITING FOR SOPHIA at Shutters on the Beach: A Novel by Aris Janigian (English)

Description: WAITING FOR SOPHIA at Shutters on the Beach by Aris Janigian A self-confessed hypocrite and skeptic, a de facto member of the liberal elite, a Professor will become a victim of a false accusation by an aggrieved student, forcing him to ask of the entire academic enterprise, "How did woe is me take the place of the truth will set you free?" FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description With Waiting for Sophia at Shutters on the Beach, Aris Janigian dives headlong into one of the most impassioned issues of our era, sexual harassment and the #metoo movement. In what might very well be the first literary novel of its kind, the story is told from the perspective of a college professor accused of unwanted sexual contact, who, ironically, also sits on a committee asked to adjudicate a case of campus rape.The novel begins with this unnamed professor waiting in The Living Room of the posh Santa Monica hotel Shutters at the Beach for a doctoral student of his, Sophia, whom he hopes to seduce. While enjoying martinis, he recalls the unpredictable way his friendship with her unfolded; he rants against the hypocrisy and decadence of Los Angeles, laments the censoriousness and self-pitying of academia, and deliberates about his future as a professor, whether to stand firm in his principles, or flee. "How did woe is me," he asks of academia, "take the place of the truth will set you free?"Sophia, both brilliant and beautiful, leaves her home country, Poland, for America, when she is just eighteen. She hopes to escape a sexual scandal of her own making, threatening her reputation and the career of her father, a Polish diplomat. Starting life anew as an American college student, she soon learns that her roommate is living a shadow life as a sexual escort. Sophia follows suit, at first, to earn money, but as she hones her skills, she discovers that escorting has become, for her, akin to a religious calling.The first book of Janigian projected Waiting for... trilogy, Waiting for Lipchitz at Chateau Marmont, spent 18 weeks on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller list. Now, with Waiting for Sophia, a satirical mashup of Nabakovs Lolita and Dostoyevskys Notes from the Underground, Janigian gives an unflinching, deadly serious, and yet tragic-comic view onto male sexuality in the era of #metoo.Waiting for Sophia is a novel of, and for, our time. With its scintillating denouement--set in a luxury hotel room in Santa Barbara--this novel will prove to be one of the most controversial and provocative in recent memory.from Waiting for Sophia: "Ah, you could still rely on a martini, its lovely cold crispness, the small green olive and its small swirling juices--how many just such martinis had provided a lubricant for any number of seductions. Odds were Sophia would know perfectly well that I had reserved this table at this beautiful bar overlooking one of our most beautiful beaches with the intent to proposition her, after, naturally, offering earnest guidance regarding the course her future should take." Author Biography For his first novel, Bloodvine, Aris Janigian was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a "strong and welcome new voice," and in subsequent novels he has plumbed the American experience, from the struggle of 1920s immigrants to the fields of California to the neuroses and decadence of contemporary culture. His 2012 novel This Angelic Land, set during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, was called "todays necessary book" by critic D. J. Waldie, and Janigians Waiting for Lipchitz at Chateau Marmont, about a screenwriter who goes from riches to rags, spent seventeen weeks on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. Janigian holds a PhD in psychology from the Claremont Graduate School and was formerly Senior Professor of Humanities at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and a contributing writer to West, the Los Angeles Times Sunday magazine. He was a finalist for Stanford Universitys William Saroyan Fiction Prize and the recipient of the Anahid Literary Award from Columbia University. In addition to his five novels, Janigian is co-author, with April Greiman, of Something from Nothing. He lives in Fresno, California, the city of his birth. Review With Waiting for Sophia, Aris Janigian proves himself, yet again, as one of the most daring and important novelists of his generation, a no-holds-barred critic of our received and cherished ideas, attitudes, and beliefs. Janigians intense prose throbs with anger and passion in equal measure, while his characters uproarious emotional rants make us laugh, cringe, weep, and shudder. --Robert Rosenstone, author of Romantic Revolutionary and Emeritus Professor of History, California Institute of Technology "An unputdownable novel. Once you hop on board, it barrels forward like a runaway train with no brakes. Waiting for Sophia at Shutters on the Beach showcases Janigians dagger sharp sentences and stunning gift of ventriloquism. The last sixty pages gripped me in a torturous vice usually retrieved from a black leather bag. Its rumored that Dostoevsky called from the other side, and that he wants to book a "date" with Sophia. This novel is sublime" --Adam Novak, Head of Story--William-Morris Endeavor Agency, and Author of Take Fountain "Waiting for Sophia at Shutters on the Beach is a breathtakingly propulsive read. Aris Janigian is a masterful stylist, his prose littered with perfect pearls, and like pearls his sentences are summoned up from the depths." --Joseph Di Prisco, author of Sibella & Sibella, and Chair of the Simpson Literary Project Aris Janigians Waiting for Sophia is an amazing story that probes both the mysteries and politics of sex. Propelled by Janigians fertile imagination, passionate intelligence, and high velocity prose, I couldnt stop reading until Id reached the end. I have admired all of Janigians novels, but this one, so finely tuned, bowled me over. --Pete Najarian, author of Daughters of Memory and The Naked and the Nude. Details ISBN1587905108 Pages 200 Publisher Regent Press Printers & Publishers Language English Year 2019 ISBN-10 1587905108 ISBN-13 9781587905100 Format Paperback Publication Date 2019-11-01 Imprint Regent Press Printers & Publishers DEWEY 813.6 Author Aris Janigian Short Title Waiting for Sophia at Sutters on the Beach Subtitle A Novel UK Release Date 2019-11-01 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:138332260;

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