This highly anticipated new novel by the author of High Fidelity is now on the copacetic shelves.  We haven't read it yet (hey, cut us some slack -- it just came out) but we admire the premise:  four people encounter each other on a roof top en route to ending it all, get to talking, order a pizza and ponder the meaning of it all.  Then events take control and the whole thing begins to take on a life of its own.  The publishers have this to say:  "Intense, hilarious, provocative, emotional, A Long Way Down is a novel that asks big questions: about life and death, strangers and friendship, love and pain, and what it takes to make it through a long, dark night of the soul."