A wildly inventive, reality-bending trip, The Vegan holds a mirror up to its reader and poses a question only a hedge fund manager could: is purity a convertible asset? The more Herschel disavows his original sin, and the more it threatens to be revealed, the more it becomes something else entirely: a way into a forgotten world of animals, nature, and life beyond words.

Andrew Lipstein, the author of Last Resort, a novel that ‘you’ll think about . . . for weeks after you read the last pages’ (Los Angeles Times), challenges our ideas of contemporary morality in his scintillating, provocative second novel.

‘Talent is rare, which is why I let out a big yippee reading Andrew Lipstein’s Last Resort… Excellent’
THE TIMES

‘You won’t read a more brilliantly executed literary romp this year’
GUARDIAN

‘A funny, fast-paced literary satire’
DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘Incredibly entertaining’
NEW YORK TIMES, Editor’s Choice

‘Wicked fun… A deliciously absurd comedy’
WASHINGTON POST

‘If Less by Andrew Sean Greer left a hole in your life, good news: Last Resort will fill it’
MEG MASON

‘Caleb Horowitz is exactly the kind of character I love to hate’
CLAIRE FULLER

‘A rare accomplishment’
RUMAAN ALAM

‘Wickedly funny: I loved it’
PATRICK GALE

‘Superbly written, darkly funny and gripping from the first page. I absolutely loved it’
EMMA STONEX

Caleb Horowitz is twenty-seven, and his wildest dreams are about to come true. His manuscript has caught the attention of the literary agent, who offers him fame, fortune and a taste of the literary life. He can’t wait for his book to be shopped around to every editor in New York, except one: Avi Dietsch, a college rival and the novel’s ‘inspiration.’
When Avi gets his hands on the manuscript, he sees nothing but theft – and opportunity. And so Caleb is forced to make a Faustian bargain, one that tests his theories of success, ambition and the limits of art.