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ePUB 3
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Ja
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Ja
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
11.02.2020
Verlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
224 (Printausgabe)
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4551 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780385351119
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation-one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year-a "darkly funny and urgent" (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis
Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. Sylvia has become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right-wingers worried about the decline of western civilization.
As Lizzie dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you've seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse, Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience-but still she tries to save everyone, using everything she's learned about empathy and despair, conscience and collusion, from her years of wandering the library stacks . . . And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in-funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad.
"Offill's fragmentary structure evokes an unbearable emotional intensity: something at the core of the story that cannot be narrated directly, by straight chronology, because to do so would be like looking at the sun…" -The New York Times
From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation-one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year-a "darkly funny and urgent" (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis
Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. Sylvia has become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right-wingers worried about the decline of western civilization.
As Lizzie dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you've seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse, Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience-but still she tries to save everyone, using everything she's learned about empathy and despair, conscience and collusion, from her years of wandering the library stacks . . . And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in-funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad.
"Offill's fragmentary structure evokes an unbearable emotional intensity: something at the core of the story that cannot be narrated directly, by straight chronology, because to do so would be like looking at the sun…" -The New York Times
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Not what I expected
Bewertung am 21.02.2023
Bewertungsnummer: 1884427
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)
She is a librarian as well as a hobby shrink, Lizzie Benson loves putting herself into other people’s narrative. Especially, as she finds interest in the prepper scene.
This book has intrigued me for quite some time with its promise of psychological meddling. Instead I got a deep dive into the scene of prepping for the inevitable end of society as we know it. At least now I know how to build a candle out of tuna and newspaper, but I’m also quite sure that I’ll never need that knowledge. The writing style was quite free form in a way that was too fragmented for me to enjoy.
This book is so different from...
Bewertung am 26.03.2021
Bewertungsnummer: 504320
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)
This book is so different from nearly anything I've read before. It comes in small, sometimes independend paragraphs, which makes it possible for it to express the whole pulse of the time with all its emotional rollercoasting. Such an intense and nice read!
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Brilliantly crafted snapshots...
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)