The Life of the Mind
€ 13,25
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9781787704268 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Christine Smallwood |
| Editora | Europa Editions (UK) Ltd |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 208 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,152 |
| Data de Publicação | 04/08/2022 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 12,50 |
| Imposto | € 0,75 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 13,25 |
| Disponibilidade | 9 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
***A TIME MAGAZINE, LITHUB, WHITE REVIEW BEST BOOK OF 2021***
"200 pages of serious entertainment." ―The Times
The Life of the Mind opens with Dorothy sitting on a library toilet, checking her phone and examining the “thick, curdled knots of string” coming out of her body. No one but her boyfriend knows that she’s had a miscarriage, not even her therapists–Dorothy has two of them.
An adjunct professor of English in New York City with no hope of finding a permanent position, Dorothy’s stuck, unable to envision the future or cut ties with the past. “What did you call it,” she asks herself, “when a life stopped developing, but it didn’t end?”
Christine Smallwood’s debut is a campus novel like no other. Piercingly intelligent and darkly hilarious, it moves from a classroom to an underwater puppet show, from a conference in Las Vegas to a karaoke party. It is a discomforting glimpse into the head of a brilliant woman on the edge, it is a novel about endings: of youth, of professional aspiration, of possibility, of the illusion that our minds can ever free us from the tyranny of our bodies.