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Love Orange - a vivid, comic cocktail about a modern American family (Paperback)
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Love Orange - a vivid, comic cocktail about a modern American family (Paperback)
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List price R291
Loot Price R240
Discovery Miles 2 400
You Save R51 (18%)
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A disturbing portrait of a modern American family 'Imagine Richard
Yates becoming fascinated by Donald Antrim before writing
Revolutionary Road and you'll have some idea of Love Orange. One of
the most satisfying novels you will read this year. This book
rules' Christian Kiefer, author of Phantoms 'I enjoyed every minute
of it' Chris Power, author of Mothers 'A stunningly accurate
portrayal . . . shining with vivid dialogue and observation' Chloe
Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters '[A]n exuberant, comic,
irresistibly dark examination of contemporary anxieties' Vanity
Fair 'An exquisite balance of humour and pathos' Lunate An
extraordinary debut novel by Natasha Randall, exposing the seam of
secrets within an American family, from beneath the plastic
surfaces of their new 'smart' home. Love Orange charts the gentle
absurdities of their lives, and the devastating consequences of
casual choices. While Hank struggles with his lack of professional
success, his wife Jenny, feeling stuck and beset by an urge to do
good, becomes ensnared in a dangerous correspondence with a prison
inmate called John. Letter by letter, John pinches Jenny awake from
the "marshmallow numbness" of her life. The children, meanwhile,
unwittingly disturb the foundations of their home life with forays
into the dark net and strange geological experiments. Jenny's bid
for freedom takes a sour turn when she becomes the go-between for
John and his wife, and develops an unnatural obsession for the
orange glue that seals his letters... Love Orange throws open the
blinds of American life, showing a family facing up to the modern
age, from the ascendancy of technology, the predicaments of
masculinity, the pathologising of children, the epidemic of opioid
addiction and the tyranny of the WhatsApp Gods. The first novel by
the acclaimed translator is a comic cocktail, an exuberant
skewering of contemporary anxieties and prejudices.
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