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Jenny Offill
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE
BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION READERS AWARD An obligatory note of hope,
in a world going to hell Lizzie Benson, a part-time librarian, is
already overwhelmed with the crises of daily life when an old
mentor offers her a job answering mail from the listeners of her
apocalyptic podcast, Hell and High Water. Soon questions begin
pouring in from left-wingers worried about climate change and
right-wingers worried about the decline of Western civilization.
Entering this polarized world, Lizzie is forced to consider who she
is and what she can do to help: as a mother, as a wife, as a
sister, and as a citizen of this doomed planet. "This is so good.
We are not ready nor worthy" - Ocean Vuong
From the WOMEN'S PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR... FEATURING IN THE NEW
YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The kind of book that you will
be quoting over and over to friends who don't quite understand,
until they give in and read it too ... They used to send each other
letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of
Speculation. They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes for
their future. They got married, had a child, and skated through all
the small calamities of family life. But then, slowly, quietly
something changes. As the years rush by, fears creep in and doubts
accumulate until finally their life as they know it cracks apart
and they find themselves forced to reassess what they have lost,
what is left, and what they want now. Written with the dazzling
lucidity of poetry, Dept. of Speculation navigates the jagged edges
of a modern marriage to tell a story that is darkly funny,
surprising and wise. "Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation resembles
no book I've read before. If I tell you that it's funny, and
moving, and true; that it's as compact and mysterious as a neutron;
that it tells a profound story of love and parenthood while
invoking (among others) Keats, Kafka, Einstein, Russian cosmonauts,
and advice for the housewife of 1897, will you please simply
believe me, and read it?" - Michael Cunningham
From the Women's Prize Shortlisted-author of Weather, an
electrifying, funny and wise account of a couple falling out of one
another's orbit. 'It is the kind of book that you will be quoting
over and over to friends who don't quite understand, until they
give in and read it too' John Self, Guardian They used to send each
other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of
Speculation. They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes for
their future. They got married, had a child, and skated through all
the small calamities of family life. But then, slowly, quietly
something changes. As the years rush by, fears creep in and doubts
accumulate until finally their life as they know it cracks apart
and they find themselves forced to reassess what they have lost,
what is left, and what they want now. Dept. of Speculation
navigates the jagged edges of a modern marriage to tell a story
that is darkly funny, surprising and wise. 'Funny, and moving, and
true... It tells a profound story of love and parenthood while
invoking (among others) Keats, Kafka, Einstein, Russian cosmonauts,
and advice for the housewife of 1897' Michael Cunningham
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Jenny Offill
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R233
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Weather (Paperback)
Jenny Offill
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Discovery Miles 2 450
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_______________ 'Unexpectedly funny' - New York Times 'Full of
imagination, humour and invention ... A glorious debut' - Irish
Times 'Mesmerising ... She writes with a heartbreaking clarity ...
and is dexterously able to evoke emotional extremity through
pitch-perfect narrative compression' - The Times _______________
THE EXQUISITE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF WEATHER, SHORTLISTED
FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 To eight-year-old Grace
Davitt, her mother, Anna, is a puzzling yet wonderful mystery. This
is a woman who has seen a sea serpent in the lake, who paints a
timeline of the universe on the sewing-room wall, and who teaches
her daughter a secret language which only they can speak. For
Grace's father, however, the only truth is science, and
increasingly he finds himself shut out by Anna as she draws Grace
deeper and deeper into a strange world of myth and obsession.
_______________ Selected as a Book of the Year in Guardian,
Telegraph, Observer, Irish Times and New York Times 'The charisma
and damage of madness lend a desperate glamour' - Elle 'A gem of a
book' - Tatler 'Brilliantly captures the confusion of childhood' -
Red
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a
beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith,
knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us
all.
Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the
wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked
Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that
inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long
relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes--a
colicky baby, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions--the wife
analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka
to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed
Russian cosmonauts. She muses on the consuming, capacious
experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the
self that ensues from it as she confronts the friction between
domestic life and the seductions and demands of art.
With cool precision, in language that shimmers with rage and wit
and fierce longing, Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely
suspenseful love story that has the velocity of a train hurtling
through the night at top speed. Exceptionally lean and compact,
Dept. of Speculation is a novel to be devoured in a single sitting,
though its bracing emotional insights and piercing meditations on
despair and love will linger long after the last page.
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Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
Virginia Woolf; Foreword by Jenny Offill
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R656
Discovery Miles 6 560
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