Weather, Offill Jenny

Автор: Offill, Jenny
Название: Weather
ISBN: 0385351100 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385351102
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 14680.00 T
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Описание: From the author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation--one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year--a shimmering tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis

Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. She's become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. As Lizzie dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you've seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse, Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience--but still she tries to save everyone, using everything she's learned about empathy and despair, conscience and collusion, from her years of wandering the library stacks . . . And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in--funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad.

Автор: Offill Jenny
Название: Dept. of Speculation
ISBN: 1847088740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847088741
Издательство: TBS/GBS
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Цена: 11870.00 T
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Описание: The second novel from an LA Times First Fiction Prize finalist, Dept. of Speculation is an annihilating, electrifying account of marriage and motherhood, love and madness

Автор: Offill Jenny
Название: Dept. of Speculation
ISBN: 0345806875 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345806871
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9810.00 T
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Описание: ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Vogue.com, Electric Literature, Buzzfeed

In the beginning, it was easy to imagine their future. They were young and giddy, sure of themselves and of their love for each other. "Dept. of Speculation" was their code name for all the thrilling uncertainties that lay ahead. Then they got married, had a child and navigated the familiar calamities of family life--a colicky baby, a faltering relationship, stalled ambitions.
When their marriage reaches a sudden breaking point, the wife tries to retrace the steps that have led them to this place, invoking everything from Kafka to the Stoics to doomed Russian cosmonauts as she analyzes what is lost and what remains. In language that shimmers with rage and longing and wit, Offill has created a brilliantly suspenseful love story--a novel to read in one sitting, even as its piercing meditations linger long after the last page.

Автор: Jenny Offill
Название: Last Things
ISBN: 0747551472 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747551478
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Цена: 5930.00 T
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Описание: This novel explores the tension between a father who is a rationalist and his wife Anna, an ornithologist, who is convinced of the existence of monsters. Their opposing ideas lead them towards breakdown and a form of madness.