Last Acts

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION</b></p><b>'A rollicking satire on contemporary America' </b>James Naughtie</p><p><b>'A magnificently humane book about losers' <i></b>Irish Times</i></p></p><b>'Taut, energetic, tender' </b>George Saunders</p><p><b>'Brilliance and originality shine out from every page' </b>Jenny Offill</p><p>David Rizzo has been waiting for a sign from above. Owner of a failing firearms store in a sun-bleached corner of Arizona, he's drowning in debt and desperate for a word from his estranged adult son, Nick. When Nick is brought back from a near-fatal heroin overdose, Rizzo believes there's reason for hope: if Nick can return from the dead, so can his business.</p><p>The flailing father-son duo embark on a marketing ploy to create the most compelling television commercial for a gun emporium the world has ever seen. But their relationship is fragile, mired in things left unsaid, and when Rizzo unknowingly supplies the weapon in a school shooting, a crash of hijinks, hope and disaster ensues.</p><p>MORE PRAISE FOR <i>LAST ACTS</i>:</p><p><b>'A magnificent sentence writer'</b> <i>New York Times Book Review</i></p><p><b>'Precise, funny and will break your heart all at once'</b> Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah</p><p><b>'An astonishing baller of a book so pitch perfect in voice (Tony Soprano meets Samuel Beckett)'</b> Marry Karr</p><p><b>'Big hearted and hilarious'</b> Dana Spiotta</p><p><b>'Raucous, irreverent' </b><i>Chicago Review of Books</i></p>