Dept. of Speculation
Book - 2014 Fiction / Offill, Jenny, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Offill, Jenny 4 On Shelf 3 requests on 9 copies
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Call Number: Fiction / Offill, Jenny, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Offill, Jenny
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch
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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout |
Fiction / Offill, Jenny | 4-week checkout | On Hold Shelf |
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout |
Fiction / Offill, Jenny | 4-week checkout | On Shelf |
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout |
Adult Book / Fiction / General / Offill, Jenny | 4-week checkout | On Hold Shelf |
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout |
Adult Book / Fiction / General / Offill, Jenny | 4-week checkout | Due 05-11-2024 |
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout |
Adult Book / Fiction / General / Offill, Jenny | 4-week checkout | On Shelf |
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout |
Adult Book / Fiction / General / Offill, Jenny | 4-week checkout | Due 05-13-2024 |
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout |
Adult Book / Fiction / General / Offill, Jenny | 4-week checkout | On Shelf |
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout |
Adult Book / Fiction / General / Offill, Jenny | 4-week checkout | On Shelf |
"Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes--a colicky baby, bedbugs, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions--the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. She muses on the consuming, capacious experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the self that ensues from it, as she confronts the friction between domestic life and the seductions and demands of art. With cool precision, in language that shimmers with rage and wit and fierce longing, Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful love story that has the velocity of a train hurtling through the night at top speed. Exceptionally lean and compact, Dept. of Speculation can be read in a single sitting, but there are enough bracing emotional insights in these pages to fill a much longer novel. "-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Knopf, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 179 pages ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385350815
9780345806871
SUBJECTS
Marriage -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.