Last Night at the Lobster

'A book that embodies what's best in us.' - Stephen King

Washington Post Best Book of the Year,2017

San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, 2017

Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year,2017



The Red Lobster chain restaurant perched in the far corner of a run-down American mall hasn't been making its numbers and has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last shift with a near-mutinous staff and the final onslaught of hungry retirees, lunatics, and office parties.



All the while, Manny wondering how to handle the waitress he's still in love with, what to do about his pregnant girlfriend, and how to find the Christmas present that will make everything better.

Stewart O'Nan has been called 'the bard of the working class', and Last Night at the Lobster is a American cult classic and a masterpiece of precision and empathy.



Stewart O'Nan is the author of sixteen novels, including City of Secrets, West of Sunset and The Odds, as well as several works of non-fiction, including, with Stephen King, the bestselling Faithful. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh where he lives with his family.



A book that embodies what's best in us.



A delightful heartbreaker of a novel . . . Exquisite.



O'Nan crafts a perfectly observed slice of working-class life.



A masterful portrait.



[A] deeply perceptive and observant little book, 140 pages that pack a bigger punch than all those 600 page tomes.