β Scribed by Kate Christensen
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
From the PEN/Faulkner Awardwinning author of The Great Man, a scintillating novel of love, loss, and literary rivalry set in rapidly changing Brooklyn.
The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartment building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For decades it was the happy home (or so he thought) of the poet Harry Quirk and his wife, Luz, a nurse, and of their two children: Karina, now a fervent freegan, and Hector, now in the clutches of a cultish Christian community. But Luz has found (and destroyed) some poems of Harrys that ignite her long-simmering suspicions of infidelity, and hes been summarily kicked out. He now has to reckon with the consequence of his literary, marital, financial, and parental failures (and perhaps others) and find his way forwardand back into Luzs good graces.
Harry Quirk is, in short, a loser, living small and low in the water. But touched by Kate Christensens novelistic grace and acute perception, his floundering attempts to reach higher ground and forge a new life for himself become funny, bittersweet, and terrifically moving. She knows what secrets lurk in the hearts of menand she turns them into literary art of the highest order.
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780307473356
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