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Title: |
Still Life with Monkey |
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| By (author): |
Katharine Weber |
| ISBN10-13: |
158988129X : 9781589881297 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
215x140mm |
| Pages: |
287 |
| Weight: |
.352 Kg. |
| Published: |
Paul Dry Books, Inc - August 2018 |
| List Price: |
17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 16 |
| Subjects: |
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Duncan Wheeler is a successful architect who savors the quotidian pleasures in life until a car accident leaves him severely paralyzed and haunted by the death of his young assistant. Now, Duncan isnt sure what there is left to live for, when every day has become a broken series of unsuccessful gestures. Duncan and his wife, Laura, find themselves in conflict as Duncans will to live falters. Laura grows desperate to help him. An art conservator who has her own relationship to the repair of broken things, Laura brings home a highly trained helper monkeya tufted capuchin named Ottolineto assist Duncan with basic tasks. Duncan and Laura fall for this sweet, comical, Nutella-gobbling little creature, and Duncans life appears to become more tolerable, fuller, and funnier. Yet the question persists: Is it enough? Katharine Weber is a masterful observer of humanity, and Still Life with Monkey, full of tenderness and melancholy, explores the conflict between the will to live and the desire to die. |
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Stark and compelling . . . Rigorously unsentimental yet suffused with emotion: possibly the best work yet from an always stimulating writer.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“Still Life with Monkey is a brilliantly crafted novel, brimming with heart.” — Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage
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“A rich and compelling meditation on the question of what makes life worth living. Her characters are vividly, achingly real, including the tiny, furry one at the novel’s center.” — Ann Packer, author of The Dive From Clausen’s Pier
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“In Katharine Weber’s new novel she takes on one of the most challenging subjects we know—the question of how to face a life we never imagined. She does so with great subtlety, tenderness and intelligence, as well as the beautiful prose we expect from her.” — Roxana Robinson, author of This Is My Daughter
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“Still Life with Monkey is radiantly tender and piercingly sad. Katharine Weber is a magician of a novelist, one who writes about loss and loneliness with such compassion and humor that we feel enchanted as we read.” — Brian Morton, author of Starting Out in the Evening and Florence Gordon
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