Christine Smallwood (1981-)

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Life of the Mind

Roman om en adjunkt i New York som kämpar med förlust och framtidsångest. Utgiven av Faber & Faber. Pocket.

• Skildrar Dorothy, en kvinna med komplexa känslor.

• Utforskar teman kring livets slut och professionell osäkerhet.

• Utgiven som pocket av Faber & Faber.

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Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Faber & Faber
Omfång: 200 s. | Språk: Engelska

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A TIMES MAGAZINE, LITHUB, WHITE REVIEW BEST BOOK OF 2021

"The glorious love child of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney."-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

The Life of the Mind opens with Dorothy sitting on a library toilet, checking her phone and examining the "thick, curdled knots of string" coming out of her body. No one but her boyfriend knows that she's had a miscarriage, not even her therapists-Dorothy has two of them.

An adjunct professor of English in New York City with no hope of finding a permanent position, Dorothy's stuck, unable to envision the future or cut ties with the past. "What did you call it," she asks herself, "when a life stopped developing, but it didn't end?"

Christine Smallwood's debut is a campus novel like no other. Piercingly intelligent and darkly hilarious, it moves from a classroom to an underwater puppet show, from a conference in Las Vegas to a karaoke party. It is a discomforting glimpse into the head of a brilliant woman on the edge, it is a novel about endings: of youth, of professional aspiration, of possibility, of the illusion that our minds can ever free us from the tyranny of our bodies.

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