Cult Classic, Sloane Crosley
Cult Classic, Sloane Crosley
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Cult Classic
A Novel

Author: Sloane Crosley

Narrator: Sloane Crosley

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/07/2022


Synopsis

"This is a surreal and hilarious insight into millennial dating with a big twist, and the narrator will have you hooked from the very beginning." -Buzzfeed

"Crosley reads with an incisive understanding of Lola's psyche. She hits all of the notes of sarcasm and reluctant self-reflection, and somehow even manages to give her searching optimism a fatalistic undertone. There are no character voices or modulations in pacing, leaving listeners with only Lola's perspective—a fitting narration for this delightfully cynical love story." -Booklist on Cult Classic

"...anyone will enjoy listening to Sloane read her novel about Lola, a young arts-and-culture editor who mysteriously keeps running into her ex-boyfriends." -Vulture

Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance.

MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of 2022 by Glamour, W, Nylon, Fortune, Lit Hub, The Millions, and more!

This program is read by the author.

One night in New York City’s Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past.

What would normally pass for coincidence becomes something far stranger as the recently engaged Lola must contend not only with the viability of her current relationship but the fact that both her best friend and her former boss, a magazine editor turned mystical guru, might have an unhealthy investment in the outcome. Memories of the past swirl and converge in ways both comic and eerie, as Lola is forced to decide if she will surrender herself to the conspiring of one very contemporary cult.

Is it possible to have a happy ending in an age when the past is ever at your fingertips and sanity is for sale? With her gimlet eye, Sloane Crosley spins a wry literary fantasy that is equal parts must-listen and poignant portrayal of alienation.

A Macmillan Audio production from MCD Books

About Sloane Crosley

Sloane Crosley is the author of the novels Cult Classic and The Clasp and three essay collections: Look Alive Out There and the New York Times-bestsellers I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sloane on January 09, 2023

Cult Classic features clear font, modest margins and straight lines (zero wobbles). I found it to be a smooth reading experience and hope you’ll feel the same.......more

Goodreads review by emma on December 15, 2022

I felt drawn to this book by The Universe. Somehow I had never heard of Sloane Crosley to this point, even though she's a bestselling author, a magazine writer, and the kind of witty New York-based person with a Twitter account I make it my business to be aware of. But it made stumbling across this bo......more

Goodreads review by Angie on October 04, 2022

UPDATE: I was right--I ended up loving the rest of the book, which I listened to on audiobook (HIGHLY recommended, as it's read by Sloane Crosley herself, and she's very funny in a dry-wit kind of way). The story/plot was very strange (I mean that in the best possible way), a satiric interrogation o......more

Goodreads review by Dr. K on December 13, 2022

It's not me, it's you and all your exes. I'm not the right audience for this book but I thought I was. The title and opening had me so excited and led me to thinking this was one kind of book when it's actually another. And what it is is not something I really care for. 80% of this book focuses on L......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on July 06, 2022

I'm not sure what I just read. Aside from a handful of very, very clever and unique one-liners, I found this book cumbersome, the protagonist tiring and unlikable, and every single character to be predictable, one-dimensional and common: caricatures of in-vogue, cynical New Yorkers looking for love.......more

Awards

  • Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year
  • Washington Post Best Books of the Year