Disorder Peculiar to the Country - Softcover

Kalfus, Ken

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9781416522850: Disorder Peculiar to the Country

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ISBN 10: 1416522859 ISBN 13: 9781416522850

Publisher: Pocket Books, 2007

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To each other's regret, both Marshall and Joyce survived 9/11. But it looks unlikely that they will survive the apparently endless war of their divorce. Both refuse to move out of the apartment, on their lawyers' orders, and neither is above using the children as footsoldiers in their battle. They will use any psychological weapon that comes to hand - sex; money; friends; relations - to gain an advantage that might prove decisive. As the months pass the domestic skirmishes begin to echo the international. In both theatres of war, events are becoming crazier, but people tend to break before nations do. Ken Kalfus's new novel is a brilliantly insightful and compelling portrait of what our modern state of perpetual war does on the home front.

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Powerful. . . . Kalfus skewers the pieties surrounding 9/11. --The New Yorker

An interesting departure from Kalfus s Slavic-inflected earlier fiction. Astringent, accomplished black comedy. --Kirkus Reviews

Brilliant. . . . It s an engaging and provocative enterprise, a novel that challenges accepted pieties and dislodges expectations. --The New York Times Book Review

"Brilliant. . . . It's an engaging and provocative enterprise, a novel that challenges accepted pieties and dislodges expectations."--The New York Times Book Review

"Powerful. . . . Kalfus skewers the pieties surrounding 9/11."--The New Yorker

"An interesting departure from Kalfus's Slavic-inflected earlier fiction. Astringent, accomplished black comedy."--Kirkus Reviews

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