An astonishing new novel of loss and grief from "one of our
culture's preeminent novelists" (Los Angeles Times) Zach Wells is a
perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in
a very narrow area--the geological history of a cave forty-four
meters above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon--he is a
laconic man who plays chess with his daughter, trades puns with his
wife while she does yoga, and dodges committee work at the college
where he teaches. After a field trip to the desert yields nothing
more than a colleague with a tenure problem and a student with an
unwelcome crush on him, Wells returns home to find his world
crumbling. His daughter has lost her edge at chess, she has
developed mysterious eye problems, and her memory has lost its
grasp. Powerless in the face of his daughter's slow deterioration,
he finds a mysterious note asking for help tucked into the pocket
of a jacket he's ordered off eBay. Desperate for someone to save,
he sets off to New Mexico in secret on a quixotic rescue mission. A
deeply affecting story about the lengths to which loss and grief
will drive us, Telephone is a Percival Everett novel we should have
seen coming all along, one that will shake you to the core as it
asks questions about the power of narrative to save.
General
Imprint: |
Graywolf Press,U.S.
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2020 |
Authors: |
Percival Everett
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Dimensions: |
209 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-64445-022-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-64445-022-4 |
Barcode: |
9781644450222 |
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