Dept. of speculation / Jenny Offill.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Knopf, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 179 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780385350815 (hardback)
- 0385350813 (hardback)
- 9780345806871 (paperback)
- 0345806875 (paperback)
- Department of speculation
- 813/.54 23
- PS3565.F383 D47 2014
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Book | Sonoma Academy Library | F OFF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 500415 |
"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."--
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