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*'Furious and addictive' New York Times
*'Urgent, deeply moving, wholly original' GEORGE SAUNDERS*'A dazzling lightning bolt of a novel' JENNY OFFILL*'Fiercely funny and deliciously subversive' YIYUN LI*A New York Times Notable Book of the Year*Selected as a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Vogue, Publishers Weekly and Kirkus*Selected as a best book of the year by Joshua Ferris in the ObserverJust as it seems she has it all, Samantha Raymond's life begins to come apart: Trump has been elected, her mother is ill and her teenage daughter is increasingly remote. At fifty-two she finds herself staring into 'the Mids' - night-time hours of supreme wakefulness where women of a certain age contemplate their lives. For Sam, this means motherhood, mortality, and the state of an unravelling nation.When Sam falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house on the wrong side of town, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life - and her family - in an attempt to find beauty in the ruins.'Exhilarating. . . A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad' New York Times Book Review'What begins as a vertiginous leap into hilarious rabbit holes ends as a brilliant meditation on mortality and time. How does she do it? Only Dana Spiotta knows. I'm just happy to see her work her magic' Jenny OffillBuy now!
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- ISBN: 9780349016429
- Author: Dana Spiotta
- Pub date: 08.02.22
- RRP: $37.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Dana Spiotta
Dana Spiotta is the author of Innocents and Others, which won the St. Francis College Literary Prize and was short-listed for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Stone Arabia, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; Eat the Document, which was a National Book Award finalist; and Lightning Field. Spiotta was a Guggenheim Fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, and she won the 2008-9 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her the John Updike Prize in Literature. Spiotta lives in Syracuse and teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program.
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