2000Ft Above Worry Level by Eamonn Marra
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Everything is sad and funny and nothing is anything else
2000ft Above Worry Level begins on the sad part of the internet and ends at the top of a cliff face.
Eamonn Marra’s debut novel occupies the precarious spaces in which many twenty-somethings find themselves, forced as they are to live in the present moment as late capitalism presses in from all sides.
Mortifying subjects – loserdom, depression, unemployment, cam sex – are surveyed with dignity and stoicism.
Beneath Marra’s precise, unemotive language and his character’s steadfast grip on the surface of things, something is stirring.
Listen to Eamonn Marra on Standing Room Only here (2020)
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Eamonn Marra is a writer and comedian. He was born and raised in Christchurch and now lives in Wellington. He has a masters degree from the International Institute of Modern Letters. Eamonn’s shows include Man on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2014), Respite (2014/2015), I, Will Jones (2016–18), and Dignity (2018). 2000ft Above Worry Level is his first book.
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