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The Life of the Mind: ""Sharp and funny."" (Daily Mail)
By (author) Christine Smallwood
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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.
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Publisher | Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Published date | 14 Oct 2021
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 240
Dimensions | 210 x 135 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-7877-0345-2
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BISAC | fiction / literary
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