| Anagrams Contributor(s): Moore, Lorrie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307277283 ISBN-13: 9780307277282 Publisher: Vintage
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: March 2007 Annotation: Benna Carpenter is an art history professor who wears glass jewelry, sings in local nightclubs, chain-smokes, runs an aerobics class for the elderly, teaches poetry, and has an adorable and devoted six-year-old daughter. Yet Benna is disillusioned, cynical and bitter. With brilliant imagination and wit, this extraordinary novel explores Benna's world of misheard exit lines, love gained and lost truths almost told, and fragile and desperate hope. Click for more in this series: Vintage Contemporaries |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2007281219 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.28" W x 7.98" L (0.54 lbs) 240 pages |
| Features: Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An extraordinary, often hilarious novel. --The New York Times A revelatory tale of love gained and lost, from a master of contemporary American fiction. Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry and sings at nightclubs. As their relationships ebbs and flows, through reality and imagination, Lorrie Moore paints a captivating, innovative portrait of men and women in love and not in love. |
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