A Disorder Peculiar to the Country: A Novel - Couverture souple

Kalfus, Ken

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060501413 ISBN 13 : 9780060501419

Editeur : Ecco, 2006

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

To each other's regret, both Joyce and Marshall survived 9/11, but it looks unlikely that they'll survive the apparently endless war of their divorce.
Joyce and Marshall Harriman struggle to divorce each other while sharing a cramped Brooklyn apartment with their two small children. One summer morning, Joyce departs for the airport to catch United Flight 93 to San Francisco and Marshall goes to his office in the World Trade Center. She misses her flight and he's late for work, but on that grim day in a devastated city, among millions seized by fear and grief, each thinks the other's dead - and they are secretly, shamefully, gloriously happy, at least until they find each other at home.

A Disorder Peculiar to the Country follows Joyce and Marshall as their divorce conflict intensifies, and they suffer, in unexpectedly personal ways, the many strange ravages that beset America in the first years of the Bush Administration. Joyce suspects Marshall has sent an anthrax-laced envelope to her office. Marshall taps her phone and studies plans for constructing a suicide bomb. The Afghan war and the stock market crash, Abu Ghraib and the clash of civilizations: all become marital battlefields.
Concluding with the liberation of Iraq, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country astonishingly lampoons how a nation's public calamities have encroached upon its most intimate private terrors. It is a brilliantly insightful and compelling satire on what our modern state of perpetual war does on the home front, and firmly establishes Ken Kalfus as one of the most daring and inventive writers at work today.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Joyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11—and must swallow their disappointment when the other arrives home. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, and foreign wars, they suffer, in ways unexpectedly personal and increasingly ludicrous, the many strange ravages of our time. In this astonishing black comedy, Kalfus suggests how our nation’s public calamities have encroached upon our most private illusions.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ecco
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060501413
• ISBN 13: 9780060501419
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256