Call Me When You're Dead

A Novel

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Pub Date 6 Sep 2022 | Archive Date 25 Aug 2022

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Call Me When You're Dead is a darkly comic novel about payback gone wild, gone sour, maybe even sweet. “If anything bad happens to me, I want you to get him.” That's what Eleanor Birch’s glamorous friend Sasha Cole requests of her during a New York City dinner one hot August night. Something bad does happen, and Eleanor is forced to become another person altogether in the wilds of Manhattan, acting as her own little Pygmalion in the harsh world of advertising and its remorseless denizens. How she triumphs, and how her prey becomes first her ally and then her lover, makes her journey a tragic romp, a hilarious disaster, and even an all-out farce—but one with very serious consequences.
Call Me When You're Dead is a darkly comic novel about payback gone wild, gone sour, maybe even sweet. “If anything bad happens to me, I want you to get him.” That's what Eleanor Birch’s glamorous...

Advance Praise

“Reading an A.R. Taylor novel is like being shot out of a cannon—only a hell of a lot more fun. Call Me When You're Dead is deliciously witty and smart, with the kind of fast-paced and completely entertaining plot that makes it impossible to stop turning the pages once the fuse is lit.”

—Jeanne Martinet, author of The Art of Mingling and Mingling with the Enemy

“A.R. Taylor can do no wrong. To be clear: She loves wrong. She revels in wrong. She rights and writes multiple wrongs in her books. And sometimes it’s all right in the end. Though sometimes it isn’t. Which seems to be why her latest novel perfectly lands in New York and the advertising world, a hotbed in several senses of wrongs. Let’s all give thanks that she writes fiction and is not a theologian or an apologist. Here is another tour de force from the indomitable, hilarious, brilliant, and (slyly) compassionate A.R. Taylor.” —Joseph Di Prisco, chair of the New Literary Project and author of The Good Family Fitzgerald and Subway to California


“Reading an A.R. Taylor novel is like being shot out of a cannon—only a hell of a lot more fun. Call Me When You're Dead is deliciously witty and smart, with the kind of fast-paced and completely...


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ISBN 9781647422233
PRICE US$17.95 (USD)
PAGES 368

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