Eastman Was Here Condition:Like New of an ever-growing abyss behind

of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door

a dazzling stylistic exercise

or Book of the Way

the most important success of his artistic life

Edison breaks her husband Fletcher's handcrafted furniture

Eastman Was Here Condition:Like New of an ever-growing abyss behindAn ambitious new novel set in the literary world of 1970s New York, following a washed up writer in an errant quest to pick up the pieces of his life. The year is 1973, and Alan Eastman, a public intellectual, accidental cultural critic, washed up war journalist, husband, and philanderer; finds himself alone on the floor of his study in an existential crisis. His wife has taken their kids and left him to live with her mother in New Jersey, and his