The Dylanist: A Novel

Brian Morton's <i>Starting Out in the Evening</i> made its mark on the literary world, with a PEN/Faulkner Award nomination, a citation as one of the Best Books of the Year by <i>Publishers Weekly</i>, and other honors. &quot;This is what a novel is supposed to be,&quot; raved <i>Newsday</i>--and now, for the first time, Morton's debut novel is available in paperback. Telling the story of Sally Burke, a young woman raised by radicals who has inherited her parents' dissatisfaction with the world but not their passionate desire to change it, <i>The Dylanist</i> is &quot;a compelling portrait of a generation as lost, though not nearly as self-importantly tragic, as any that F. Scott Fitzgerald described.&quot; (<i>L.A. Weekly</i>) <br><br>&quot;Wonderful....All I can say is: This is one to buy, to read. It echoes in the brain, as your own life unfolds.&quot;-- Carolyn See, <i>Los Angeles Times</i><br><br>&quot;Astonishingly mature.&quot;-- E.L. Doctorow<br><br>&quot;Sly wit...he may be to Sally's generation what Ann Beattie is to those a decade older--not the most flattering chronicler, but one of the truest.&quot;-- <i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i><br><br>&quot;A book to savor.&quot;-- <i>Boston Sunday Herald</i><br><br> <i>Starting Out in the Evening</i> hit #13 on the Independent Bestseller List, was named a <i>New York Times Notable Book</i> and one of <i>Publishers Weekly's</i> Best Books of the Year, was a co-winner of the first annual Koret Jewish Book Awards, was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award, and was chosen for <i>Salon's</i> annual list of Favorite Books<br> Outstanding reviews for this &quot;first novel of unusual merit&quot; (<i>New York Review of Books</i>) <br> Delves into an era of great current fascination: &quot;Morton has captured perfectly the feeling of growing up in the '60s and '70s&quot; (<i>Boston Sunday Herald</i>)