The Life of the Mind - "Sharp and funny." (Daily Mail) (Paperback)

***A TIME MAGAZINE, LITHUB, WHITE REVIEW BEST BOOK OF 2021*** "200 pages of serious entertainment." The Times The Life of the Mind opens with Dorothy sitting on a library toilet, checking her phone and examining the "thick, curdled knots of string" coming out of her body. No one but her boyfriend knows that she's had a miscarriage, not even her therapists-Dorothy has two of them. An adjunct professor of English in New York City with no hope of finding a permanent position, Dorothy's stuck, unable to envision the future or cut ties with the past. "What did you call it," she asks herself, "when a life stopped developing, but it didn't end?" Christine Smallwood's debut is a campus novel like no other. Piercingly intelligent and darkly hilarious, it moves from a classroom to an underwater puppet show, from a conference in Las Vegas to a karaoke party. It is a discomforting glimpse into the head of a brilliant woman on the edge, it is a novel about endings: of youth, of professional aspiration, of possibility, of the illusion that our minds can ever free us from the tyranny of our bodies.

General

Imprint:	Europa Editions UK
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2021
Authors:	Christine Smallwood
Dimensions:	210 x 135 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-78770-345-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-78770-345-2
Barcode:	9781787703452

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