Dept. of Speculation

Name: Dept. of Speculation
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ISBN: 9780385350815

ISBN-10: 0385350813

ISBN-13: 9780385350815

Edition: 2014

Authors: Jenny Offill

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/28/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English