Synopsis
Claire Newbold is a modern, mixed-up heroine, struggling to come to terms with the death of her son and her husband's self-confessed affair. She's come to the conclusion that it's time to check out her life, and so, while travelling for her job, she decides not to go home.
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'Subtle, astute [...] With Layover, Zeidner joins the ranks of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood and Fay Weldon' -- The New York Times Book Review, Notable Book of the year
'Zeidner's writing is like her heroine: taut, intelligent, and seductive' -- New Yorker
'Marvelous... Layover is that rarest of books, one to be read again and again' --Newsweek
'The psychic death, and rebirth, of a saleswoman, Layover is a chillingly modern pilgrimage... Lisa Zeidner writes with the precision and the ear of the poet she is' --Kathryn Harrison
'A wicked sendup of contemporary life, deconstructing the men whose professions give them a false send of aggrandizement and the women who live with them' -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
'Intelligent, sarcastic, and slightly unhinged, Claire is a fascinating character. Zeidner has done a wonderful job capturing the dark night of the soul that comes to virtually all of us eventually by exploring the depths of Claire's grief and anger without once slipping into melodrama or cliche' -- Booklist
'A sharp and wryly moving portrait of a woman in the midst of a breakdwon [...] A wise and satisfying read' --Kirkus
About the Author
Lisa Zeidner has published five novels, including the critically acclaimed Layover, and two books of poems. Her stories, reviews, and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, GQ, Tin House, and elsewhere. She directs the M.F.A program in creative writing at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Claire Newbold is not your typical heroine. Smart and sexy, yes, but she's also been known to sneak into a hotel room or two without paying, seduce a teenager in wet bathing trunks, and just check out of things altogether--like her job. And her marriage. No wonder, though. Claire's been careening off heartbreak. Her only child has died, she may be infertile, and her husband has had an affair. No longer a mother, not sure she wants to be a wife, Claire moves from hotel to hotel, basking in the anonymity of travel and forbidden sex. She even comes to believe she is clairvoyant, able to 'read' into the souls of others. Eventually she begins to see into her own soul as she ponders whether or not to return home. As she struggles to repair her marriage and her life, Claire surprises herself -- and us -- by emerging with a new sense of redemption. 268 pages. Seller Inventory # 1007133
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ISBN 10: 073226605X
ISBN 13: 9780732266059
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