Pike's Folly
  • Published: 15 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780375727269
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $45.00

Pike's Folly

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Nathaniel Pike, a headstrong billionaire, is purchasing a piece of federal land in New Hampshire’s White Mountains and turning it into a huge, inaccessible parking lot. Orbiting Pike and his aspirations is a cast of perfectly flawed eccentrics: Marlene, who is shy and vulnerable but also a budding exhibitionist; Stuart, Pike’s assistant, who is Marlene’s husband and a failed writer; and Heath, who films Marlene’s public nudity and turns her into an Internet star. In this grand tale of the folly of the modern world, Mike Heppner skewers the extravagance of wealth, and the class that grows up around that wealth, even as he casts a humane look at the people involved.
  • Published: 15 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780375727269
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Mike Heppner

Mike Heppner grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, received an M.F.A. from Columbia University, and now lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Praise for Pike's Folly

"PIKE'S FOLLY is all about subtlety, both in what the story explores and in how Heppner lampoons that.... Heppner takes the better road of satire: subtle, humane--and therefore true." --Detroit Free Press

"An endearing look at the life fully (or in this case overly) examined.... In PIKE'S FOLLY, the author who has been called a cultural critic takes a ruthless but humorous look at the demoralization of an already imperfect world." --Pages

"Entertaining." --Kirkus

"An indictment of wasteful American capitalism, a satire of political correctness, an exploration of America's guilt for unspeakable slavery-era crimes--Heppner's second novel is all of this.... [His] prose ax is sharp, and he fells a great many American demons in putting forth his haunting and redemptive vision of New England's past and present." --Publishers Weekly

—Esquire

“Heppner is a fearsome cultural critic disguised in a novelist’s clothing.”

—Entertainment Weekly

“Sparkles with wit, poignancy and humor.”

—The Temple News

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