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