Here Goes Nothing by Toltz, Steve

A Times (of London) Best Fiction Book of 2022

A wildly inventive, savagely funny and topical novel about love, mortality and the afterlife, by the Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole.

Angus is a reformed ne'er-do-well looking forward to the birth of his first child when he's murdered by a man who is in love with his pregnant wife Gracie. Having never believed in God, heaven or hell, Angus finds himself in the afterlife - a place that provides more questions than answers. As a worldwide pandemic finally reaches the shores of Australia, the afterlife starts to get very crowded and Angus finds a way to reconnect with his wife Gracie and maybe even seek revenge on his murderer...

Here Goes Nothing is a novel of exhilarating originality and scope about birth, death and everything in between and after by 'a writer of prodigious talent' (Peter Carey) that contains a vision of the afterlife that rivals Dante's Divine Comedy and George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo, and the emmy-nominated The Good Place.

Author: Steve Toltz
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 05/03/2022
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.31w x 1.31d
ISBN: 9781612199719

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/14/2022
Booklist 04/01/2022 pg. 15
Shelf Awareness 05/03/2022

About the Author
Steve Toltz was born in Sydney, Australia. A Fraction of the Whole, his first novel, was released in 2008 to widespread critical acclaim. It was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize and the 2008 Guardian First Book Award. His equally acclaimed second novel Quicksand was published in 2015. He currently lives in Los Angeles and writes screenplays.