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The Catastrophist

The Catastrophist

Douglas, Lawrence

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HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0156031779
ISBN13: 9780156031776
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: May 7 2007
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.58 Depth: 7.92
Language: English
Meet Daniel Wellington: art historian, academic star, devoted husband, and total basket case. Although Daniel has known nothing but success, he's convinced the future promises nothing but disaster. When his wife, known simply as R., presents him with a tiny, size-XXS Yale sweatshirt, Daniel is seized by the impulse to bolt; the specter of imminent fatherhood sends him into a full-blown existential crisis. Soon this well-intentioned young professor finds himself plotting bigamy, lying about his past, imagining his pregnant wife in the arms of an androgynous grad student, and explaining to the dean his obscene e-mail to the lead in a student production of Miss Julie.

From an idyllic New England campus to the rarefied art worlds of Berlin and London, The Catastrophist charts the rise and fall and partial rebound of an ambivalent but endearing Everyman and heralds the appearance of a major new comedic voice in American fiction.

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