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American genius : a comedy / Lynne Tillman.
Van Pelt Library PS3570.I42 A44 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tillman, Lynne, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle-aged women--Fiction.
- Middle-aged women.
- Rest homes--Fiction.
- Rest homes.
- Genre:
- Humorous fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 359 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Peninsula Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "A former historian is spending time in a residential home - but is it an artist's retreat, a sanatorium, or a psychiatric hospital? In hypnotic and digressive prose, Tillman's narrator spins tales of her life while ruminating on her many and varied preoccupations: chair design, the Manson family, the Zulu alphabet, the death of a pet, family trauma, loneliness - and above all, skin and the meaning of 'sensitivity' in contemporary society. Meanwhile, these reveries and reminiscences are constantly interrupted by the presence of her fellow residents, each with their own obsessions and neuroses."--Provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9781913512521
- 1913512525
- OCLC:
- 1464610304
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