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The Guest Lecture (Paperback)
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With "a voice as clear, sincere, and wry as any I've read in
current American fiction" (Joshua Cohen), Martin Riker's poignant
and startlingly original novel asks how to foster a brave mind in
anxious times, following a newly jobless academic rehearsing a
speech on John Maynard Keynes for a surprising audienceIn a hotel
room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist,
lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter. Anxious that
she is grossly underprepared for a talk she is presenting tomorrow
on optimism and John Maynard Keynes, she has resolved to practice
by using an ancient rhetorical method of assigning parts of her
speech to different rooms in her house and has brought along a
comforting albeit imaginary companion to keep her on track--Keynes
himself.Yet as she wanders with increasing alarm through the rooms
of her own consciousness, Abby finds herself straying from her
prepared remarks on economic history, utopia, and Keynes's
pragmatic optimism. A lapsed optimist herself, she has been
struggling under the burden of supporting a family in an
increasingly hostile America after being denied tenure at the
university where she teaches. Confronting her own future at a time
of global darkness, Abby undertakes a quest through her memories to
ideas hidden in the corners of her mind--a piecemeal intellectual
history from Cicero to Lewis Carroll to Queen Latifah--as she asks
what a better world would look like if we told our stories with
more honest and more hopeful imaginations.With warm intellect,
playful curiosity, and an infectious voice, Martin Riker acutely
animates the novel of ideas with a beating heart and turns one
woman's midnight crisis into the performance of a lifetime.
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Imprint: |
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Martin Riker
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
241 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8021-6041-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-8021-6041-7 |
Barcode: |
9780802160416 |
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