โ Pat Cadigan
๐ Fiction
๐
2011
๐ Hachette Littlehampton
๐ English
โ 164 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Fools
โ Scribed by Joan Silber
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 039334889X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. "Emotionally, it's astounding. 'Linked' doesn't begin to describe the complex web Silber has woven. . . . Beautiful, intricate and wise."--New York Times Book Review When is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes people want to be better than they are? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement to Occupy Wall Street, the characters in Joan Silber's dazzling new story cycle tackle this question head-on.
Vera, the shy, anarchist daughter of missionary parents, leaves her family for love and activism in New York. A generation later, her own doubting daughter insists on the truth of being of two minds, even in marriage. The adulterous son of a Florida hotel owner steals money from his family and departs for Paris, where he takes up with a young woman and finds himself outsmarted in turn. Fools ponders the circle of winners and losers, dupers and duped, and the price we pay for our...
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