The Trouble with Being Born: A Novel
Language: English
Published by Fiction Collective Two, 2008
- Softcover
- New
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Depicts the lives of Frances and Joe, husband and wife. Told in their own alternating voices, this title recalls their lives, separately and together, and the divergent trajectories of their origins and aspirations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 304. . 2008. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- The Trouble with Being Born: A Novel
- Author
- DeShell, Jeffrey
- Publisher
- Fiction Collective Two
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1573661414
- ISBN 13
- 9781573661416
Frances's story moves in reverse: beginning with her dementia in old age, her narrative moves backwards into lucidity, through a cruel and loveless marriage, the birth of her son Jeffrey, and into a childhood that she recalls fondly as a time of innocence and belonging.
Joe's memories begin in childhood, a bewildered boy struggling with poverty, racism, and isolation, and we watch him grow into a manhood fraught with wrong turns, rage, betrayals, and disappointment, caring in the end for the woman he has long mistreated.
The Trouble with Being Born is a stark meditation on memory and the struggle–both necessary and impossible–to remember.
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