Weather - Couverture souple

Offill, Jenny

 
9781783784776: Weather
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1783784776 ISBN 13 : 9781783784776
Editeur : Granta Books, 2021

Synopsis

Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practise her other calling: as an unofficial shrink. For years, she has supported her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but then her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. Sylvia has 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 she 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 acknowledge the limits of what she can do. But if she can't save others, then what, or who, might save her? And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in--funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jenny Offill is the author of Women's-Prize-longlisted Weather as well as Dept. of Speculation (shortlisted for the Folio Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award), Last Things, and four books for children. She lives in upstate New York with her family.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practise her other calling: as an unofficial shrink. For years, she has supported her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but then her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. Sylvia has 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 she 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 acknowledge the limits of what she can do. But if she can't save others, then what, or who, might save her? And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in--funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad.

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Éditeur
Granta Books
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1783784776
ISBN 13 
9781783784776
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  0385351100 ISBN 13 :  9780385351102
Editeur : Knopf, 2020
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