Egg Dancing - Softcover

Jensen, Liz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879517840 ISBN 13: 9780879517847

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 1997

Synopsis

In a darkly satiric novel about genetic engineering, insane asylums, and Christian evangelism, a woman discovers her gynecologist husband has been experimenting on her in order to develop the perfect baby, and plans her revenge

About this title

Review:

‘A sparky, sparkling, excellent novel. I just loved it’ -- Fay Weldon

‘An assured, hilarious and insightful novel ... you’re carried on a crazy journey you won’t be sorry you took’ -- Time Out

‘Entertaining ... with a wickedly black sense of humour’ -- Observer

‘Very highly recommended ... Egg Dancing is a superb, sad comedy’ -- Scotland on Sunday

About the Author:

Liz Jensen is the author of Egg Dancing (long-listed for the Orange Prize), Ark Baby (shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and long-listed for the Orange Prize), The Paper Eater, War Crimes for the Home (long-listed for the Orange Prize), and The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, currently in development as a major motion picture by Anthony Minghella. She divides her time between Copenhagen and London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0879517840
• ISBN 13: 9780879517847
• Binding: Paperback