Subtle Bodies
β Scribed by Norman Rush
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0385350457
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β¦ Synopsis
His long-awaited new novel: a sophisticated romp through the tribulations and particular joys of marriage and friendship as a group of college friends reunites 20-some years after graduation...a novel filled with unexpected, funny, telling aper Γ§us, alongside a deeper, moving exploration of the meanings of life.
When Douglas, the ringleader of a clique of self-styled wits of "superior sensibility" dies suddenly, his four remaining friends are summoned to his luxe estate high in the Catskills to memorialize his life and mourn his passing. Responding to an obscure sense of emergency in the call, Ned, our hero, flies in from San Francisco (where he is the main organizer of a march against the impending Iraq war), pursued instantly by his furious wife Nina: they're at a critical point in their attempt to get Nina pregnant, and she's ovulating! And it is Nina who gives us a pointed, irreverent commentary as the friends begin to catch up with one another. She is...
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