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The Life of the Mind

By Christine Smallwood

The Life of the Mind

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***A TIME MAGAZINE, LITHUB, WHITE REVIEW BEST BOOK OF 2021*** "200 pages of serious entertainment." -The Times The Life of the Mind opens with Dorothy sitting on a library toilet, checking her phone and examining the "thick, curdled knots of string" coming out of her body. No one but her boyfriend knows that she's had a miscarriage, not even her therapists-Dorothy has two of them. An adjunct professor of English in New York City with no hope of finding a permanent position, Dorothy's stuck, unable to envision the future or cut ties with the past. "What did you call it," she asks herself, "when a life stopped developing, but it didn't end?" Christine Smallwood's debut is a campus novel like no other. Piercingly intelligent and darkly hilarious, it moves from a classroom to an underwater puppet show, from a conference in Las Vegas to a karaoke party. It is a discomforting glimpse into the head of a brilliant woman on the edge, it is a novel about endings: of youth, of professional aspiration, of possibility, of the illusion that our minds can ever free us from the tyranny of our bodies.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
200
Release Date:
2022-08-04
Publication Date:
2022-08-04
Publisher:
Europa Editions UK Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1787704262
ISBN13:
9781787704268
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
165 g
Height:
13 cm
Width:
20 cm
Thickness:
2.5 cm
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