The Shape of Things to Come: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Casey, Maud

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 068817695X ISBN 13 : 9780688176952

Editeur : William Morrow, 2001

Synopsis

A deeply affecting, darkly funny debut
novel that brilliantly captures solitude, sex,
and the contemporary single woman

Isabelle, a woman in her thirties without any of the trappings of a "grown-up" life, has just been fired from her job at a San Francisco phone company. Returning to the midwestern suburb of her childhood, Standardsville, Illinois, she contends with her dating single mother, a neighbor who once appeared on The Honeymooners, and an ex-boyfriend. She also becomes a "mystery shopper" for a temp agency, posing as a variety of potential tenants for newly built suburban communities to access their exclusive services. Enchanted by the possiblities of disguise, Isabelle spins a web of lies that keeps the world at a distance until she unearths long-kept secrets that force her to rethink everything she thought she knew.

Insightful and entertaining, this gracefully written novel explores a generation defined by reinvention in a landscape gradually being devoured by developers. Depicting the comedy of being a grown-up still coming of age, Maud Casey beautifully and evocatively reveals how people narrate their lives to counter the chaotic randomness of modern existence.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Maud Casey stories have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. Casey received her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Arizona. She lives in Washington, DC and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Maryland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 068817695X
• ISBN 13: 9780688176952
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible