9781582433059
One D.O.A.: One On the Way
Mary Robison
ISBN 13: 9781582433059
Publisher: Counterpoint
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
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From the house author and long-time favorite "writer's writer," the effortlessly smart, deliriously off-kilter story of an extended New Orleans family trying to reclaim a shadow of their former selves
Mary Robison, author of Why Did I Ever-winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, a New York Times Notable Book, and Book Sense 76 Pick- has written a new novel that is certain to gather as much attention and wild acclaim.
The story opens on Jay, a location scout for a movie production company. It's the easiest job in the world; at the end of the day, she says, they should just ask her how it went and say "Super. Sounds like you had a good time." She is complacently married to Alt, who has just been diagnosed with a grave illness and gone back to his palatial family home, back to the care of his parents. Which is just fine with Jay-or so she tells herself at the start. But standing left of center of this still prosperous but mortally wounded family does not get easier as the weeks wear on. As she tries to negotiate her way around the anger of Saunders, Alt's despised twin brother; maintain her friendship with Petal, his beautiful wife; and protect what's left of the innocence of Collie, the niece caught in the middle, Jay finds more than the Louisiana heat getting to be oppressive.
With her trademark biting humor and breathtaking facility with language, Mary Robison thus sets the stage for a beguiling Southern Gothic sure to delight both her fanatical following and new readers alike.
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Book Description: Counterpoint,U.S., United States, 2004. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 201 x 162 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. The award-winning, critically acclaimed author of Why Did I Ever reinvents the Southern Gothic novel here to glorious-and hilarious-effect. . From the author of Why Did I Ever, winner of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, a New York Times Notable Book, and a Booksense 76 Pick, a new novel certain to gather as much attention and acclaim. J and Petal. They've known each other for years. They're old friends who married twin brothers, married late into an old New Orleans family. They married money. And married trouble. Now, narrator J, sharp and sarcastic, a stick-thin redhead in her early forties, works the moody Louisiana landscape as a location scout and roams marshes and cane plantations and bayous with names like Cue de Teche and Cocodrie. She's lost her handsome husband.--at least, lost him halfway. Gravely ill, Alt has gone home to his parents and their mansion in New Orleans' Garden District. Twin brother, Saunders, who can be drunkenly brilliant and persuasive at times, is these days all-the-time brilliantly drunk. ("Meet Over Out," J whispers about the two of them, "Crash Burn," "Wear Tear").Saunders has popped off once too often to his lovely and nerve-wracked wife, Petal, who is ready to kill. Ready with a gun in her hand. For she and Saunders have a child who has seen and heard way too much and has lately, been behaving very badly. So J takes the child home. She takes Petal's gun as well. She will take her own husband back too if only his parents will let her. Meanwhile J's kleptomaniac niece has filched and hidden nine-tenths of J's belongings. Clearly, she can't leave the .45 she took from Petal at home. So, J carries the gun with her everywhere she goes, as she scouts the Cajun towns of Breaux Bridge and Jeanerette, with her freckled intern, Linus, in tow. It is Linus who eventually reveals that J's husband hasn't been too sick to entertain a specific visitor. And in the same moments when J is absorbing that bit of information, she meets someone, a stills photographer, who is hypnotic and utterly desirable. Soon enough, his car will follow hers on her strange last visit to the twins' parents' haunted estate, where Alt will be, and dear angry Petal, and sad, dangerous Saunders.So, it is with Mary Robison's trademark biting humor and breathtaking facility with language, that she sets the stage for a Southern Gothic and unfolds a tale that is so beguiling and appealing, it will delight both her devoted following and new readers alike. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9781582433059 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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