Last Night at the Lobster (Audiobook)

from rosalita

It's just a few days before Christmas, but there's no holiday cheer at the Red Lobster restaurant in New Britain, Connecticut. The corporate overlords have decided to close down the underperforming eatery, and it's left to Manny to make sure his rapidly dwindling staff keeps up standards on this ...

from salweir

Sparse, elegant, direct, to-the-point, the language in this luminous little book is what I learned in writing class: "show, don't tell." As soon as I picked up the book and read the first paragraph I knew I had found a gem. In fine detail, O'Nan lets this story of the last night of a restaurant i...

from KinnicChick

I found Last Night at the Lobster captivating. It wasn't an upbeat and happy story, but was a story for our current time with the economy as it is and so many lives as uncertain as they are. O'Nan's descriptions of Manny, the manager of the Red Lobster and that restaurant's last night of operatio...

from yooperprof

What if James Joyce lived in working class suburban New England during the second administration of George W. Bush and wrote a novel about his experience as the manager of a failing "Red Lobster"? It's like Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed" crossed with an Edward Hopper canvas - emphasizing...

from katiekrug

Stewart O'Nan's novella is the story of Manny, an overweight, eager-to-please manager of a Red Lobster that is going out of business. We follow Manny through his last day on the job as he tries to fulfill his duties and motivate the remaining staff, not to mention puzzle through his relationship ...