Blood Test (A Comedy) - 9780593685594
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Product Details
Author:
Charles Baxter
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
224
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (October 7, 2025)
Imprint:
Vintage
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9780593685594
ISBN-10:
0593685598
Weight:
6.4oz
Dimensions:
5.15" x 7.95" x 0.6"
File:
RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_full_active_D20260405T165602_155746796-20260405.xml
Folder:
RandomHouse
List Price:
$17.00
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
65
Series:
Vintage Contemporaries
Case Pack:
40
As low as:
$13.09
Publisher Identifier:
P-RH
Discount Code:
A
QuickShip:
Yes
Overview
From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers”(Chicago Tribune) comes a comic novel about a divorced Midwestern dad who takes a cutting-edge medical test and learns that he has a predisposition to murder.
In this fresh take on love and trouble in America, Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday-school teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by the results of a predictive blood test. Baxter, a master storyteller, brings us a gradually building rollercoaster narrative, and a protagonist who is impertinent, searching, and hilariously relatable. From his good-as-gold, gentle girlfriend to the macho subcontractor guy his ex-wife left him for, not to mention his well-raised teenage kids, now exploring sex and sexuality, the secondary characters in Brock's life all contribute meaningfully to the drama, as increasing challenges to his sense of self and purpose crash over him. The final battle—no spoilers, but there is one—couldn't be more delightful, as this quick and bracing novel reminds us to choose the best people to love, accept the ones we love even if we didn’t choose them, and love the mall well.
In this fresh take on love and trouble in America, Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday-school teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by the results of a predictive blood test. Baxter, a master storyteller, brings us a gradually building rollercoaster narrative, and a protagonist who is impertinent, searching, and hilariously relatable. From his good-as-gold, gentle girlfriend to the macho subcontractor guy his ex-wife left him for, not to mention his well-raised teenage kids, now exploring sex and sexuality, the secondary characters in Brock's life all contribute meaningfully to the drama, as increasing challenges to his sense of self and purpose crash over him. The final battle—no spoilers, but there is one—couldn't be more delightful, as this quick and bracing novel reminds us to choose the best people to love, accept the ones we love even if we didn’t choose them, and love the mall well.
