The Catastrophist - Couverture souple

Douglas, Ph.D Lawrence

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156031779 ISBN 13 : 9780156031776

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2007

Synopsis

Meet Daniel Wellington: art historian, academic star, devoted husband, and total basket case. Although Daniel has known nothing but success, he?s convinced the future promises nothing but disaster. When his wife, known simply as R., presents him with a tiny, size-XXS Yale sweatshirt, Daniel is seized by the impulse to bolt; the specter of imminent fatherhood sends him into a full-blown existential crisis. Soon this well-intentioned young professor finds himself plotting bigamy, lying about his past, imagining his pregnant wife in the arms of an androgynous grad student, and explaining to the dean his obscene e-mail to the lead in a student production of Miss Julie.

From an idyllic New England campus to the rarefied art worlds of Berlin and London, The Catastrophist charts the rise and fall and partial rebound of an ambivalent but endearing Everyman and heralds the appearance of a major new comedic voice in American fiction.


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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

LAWRENCE DOUGLAS’ s writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Hudson Review, McSweeney’s, and the New Yorker, and he is a regular contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Times Literary Supplement. He teaches at Amherst College and lives in Boston.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0156031779
• ISBN 13: 9780156031776
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
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