Shelter in place : a novel / David Leavitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leavitt, David, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States--Fiction.

Presidents.

Manners and customs.

Vacation homes.

Elections.

United States.

Connecticut.

Elections--United States--Fiction.

Rich people--Fiction.

Rich people.

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Vacation homes--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Connecticut--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Political fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

366 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an intimate group of friends, New Yorkers all, has gathered to recover from what they consider the greatest political catastrophe of their lives. They have just sat down to tea when their hostess, Eva Lindquist, proposes a dare. Who among them would be willing to ask Siri how to assassinate Donald Trump? Liberal and like-minded-editors, writers, a decorator, a theater producer, and one financial guy, Eva's husband, Bruce-the friends have come to the countryside in the hope of restoring the bubble in which they have grown used to living. Yet with the exception of one brash and obnoxious book editor, none is willing to accept Eva's challenge. A comic portrait of the months immediately following the 2016 election, Shelter in Place is also a meditation on the unreliable appetites-for love, for power, for freedom-by which both our public and private lives are shaped.

ISBN:

9781620404874

1620404877

OCLC:

1199132454