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A Disorder Peculiar to the Country: A Novel Paperback - 2006
by Kalfus, Ken
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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.
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- Title A Disorder Peculiar to the Country: A Novel
- Author Kalfus, Ken
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Thus.
- Condition New
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2006-12-12
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0060501413_new
- ISBN 9780060501419 / 0060501413
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.54 x 5.8 x 0.61 in (19.15 x 14.73 x 1.55 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: African
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, New York (N.Y.)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
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.