ServiceJohn Tottenham writes with a rare comic intensity Colm Tibn My favourite nihilistic romantic Rachel Kushner In his late forties, John, a failed journalist and failing novelist, finds himself working at a bookstore in a rapidly gentrifying Los Angeles neighbourhood, where he is thrown into the company of a younger generation with whom he has little in common. Embittered by his lowly position at this late stage of what had once been a promising career,