Disorder Peculiar to the Country A Novel

Name: Disorder Peculiar to the Country A Novel
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ISBN: 9780060501402

ISBN-10: 0060501405

ISBN-13: 9780060501402

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ken Kalfus

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In a rollicking black comedy about terrorism, war, and conjugal strife, the author whom Salon calls "a writer of chameleonic fluency" revisits some peculiar episodes in current American history. Joyce and Marshall Harriman are struggling to divorce each other while sharing a cramped, hateful Brooklyn apartment with their two small children. One late-summer morning, Joyce departs for Newark Airport to catch a flight to San Francisco, and Marshall goes to his office in the World Trade Center. She misses her flight, and he's late for work, but on that grim day, in a devastated city, among millions seized by fear and grief, each thinks the other's dead and each is secretly, shamefully,…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/3/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Ken Kalfus is an American writer who has lived in Paris, Dublin, Belgrade, and most recently, Moscow. His first book, Thirst (also available from WSP), was one of the most celebrated story collections in recent years, meriting inclusion in the best-of-the-year lists of the New York Times, Salon, the Village Voice, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.