| A Disorder Peculiar to the Country Contributor(s): Kalfus, Ken (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060501413 ISBN-13: 9780060501419 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2018 Annotation: In this withering satire of American life, Marshall and Joyce are conducting a scorched-earth divorce campaign against each other. On the grim day when New York City is overcome with grief and shock, each thinks the other is dead, and each is visited by an intense, secret, guilty satisfaction. Both survive only to continue their fighting. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - Contemporary - Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.8" W x 7.54" (0.45 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Geographic Orientation - New York - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Locality - New York, N.Y. |
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| Publisher Description: Joyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11--and must swallow their disappointment when the other arrives home. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, and foreign wars, they suffer, in ways unexpectedly personal and increasingly ludicrous, the many strange ravages of our time. In this astonishing black comedy, Kalfus suggests how our nation's public calamities have encroached upon our most private illusions. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kalfus, Ken: - ken kalfus is the author of a novel, The Commissariat of Enlightenment, and the short story collections Thirst, which won the Salon Book Award, and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. |