A Personal Matter (Paperback, 1st Evergreen ed)

Oe's most important novel, A Personal Matter, has been called by The New York Times "close to a perfect novel." In A Personal Matter, Oe has chosen a difficult, complex though universal subject: how does one face and react to the birth of an abnormal child? Bird, the protagonist, is a young man of 27 with antisocial tendencies who more than once in his life, when confronted with a critical problem, has "cast himself adrift on a sea of whisky like a besotted Robinson Crusoe." But he has never faced a crisis as personal or grave as the prospect of life imprisonment in the cage of his newborn infant-monster. Should he keep it? Dare he kill it? Before he makes his final decision, Bird's entire past seems to rise up before him, revealing itself to be a nightmare of self-deceit. The relentless honesty with which Oe portrays his hero -- or antihero -- makes Bird one of the most unforgettable characters in recent fiction.

General

Imprint:	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1994
First published:	1994
Authors:	Kenzaburo Oe
Dimensions:	205 x 135 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	165
Edition:	1st Evergreen ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8021-5061-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-8021-5061-6
Barcode:	9780802150615

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