Книга: Jenny Offill «Dept. of Speculation»
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Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes - a colicky baby, bedbugs, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions - the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. She muses on the consuming, capacious experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the self that ensues from it, as she confronts the friction between domestic life and the seductions and demands of art. With cool precision, in language that shimmers with rage and wit and fierce longing, Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful love story that has the velocity of a train hurtling through the night at top... Издательство: "Knopf" (2014) Формат: 120x190, 192 стр.
ISBN: 978-0-385-35081-5 Купить за 569 руб на Озоне |
Jenny Offill
Jenny Offill (born in 1968) is an American
Offill's first novel "Last Things" was published in 1999 by
She is the co-editor and contributing author of the anthology "
She currently lives in Brooklyn New York and teaches in the MFA program at
Источник: Jenny Offill
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