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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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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
Ken Kalfus has lived in Paris, Dublin, Belgrade and Moscow. He is the author of THIRST and PU-239 AND OTHER RUSSIAN FANTASIES. His fiction has appeared in HARPERS and THE VILLAGE VOICE Literary Supplement.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster Ltd
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0743286219
- ISBN 13 9780743286213
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