Subtle Bodies Contributor(s): Rush, Norman (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400077133 ISBN-13: 9781400077137 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2013013813 |
Series: Vintage International |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.55 lbs) 256 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: **A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK** In a sophisticated romp through the tribulations and joys of marriage and friendship, a group of college friends reunites two decades after graduation. After the sudden death of Douglas, once the ringleader of a clique of self-styled wits, his four best friends are summoned to his Catskills estate to mourn his passing. Responding to a mysterious sense of emergency in the call, Ned flies in from San Francisco with his wife Nina in furious pursuit; they're at a critical point in their attempts to conceive and she won't let a funeral get in the way. It is Nina who gives us a pointed, irreverent commentary as the men reconvene, while Ned tries to understand what it was that made this clutch of souls his friends to begin with--before time, sex, work, and the brutal quirks of history reshaped them. Filled with unexpected, funny, telling aper us, Norman Rush's Subtle Bodies is also a deeply moving exploration of the meanings of life. |