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Dept. of Speculation

Dept. of Speculation

Offill, Jenny

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0345806875
ISBN13: 9780345806871
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Oct 7 2014
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - From the acclaimed author of Weather comes a slim, stunning portrait of a marriage--a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.

A startling feat of storytelling . . . Each line a dazzling, perfectly chiseled arrowhead aimed at your heart. --Vanity Fair

In the beginning, it was easy to imagine their future. They were young and giddy, sure of themselves and of their love for each other. Dept. of Speculation was their code name for all the thrilling uncertainties that lay ahead. Then they got married, had a child and navigated the familiar calamities of family life--a colicky baby, a faltering relationship, stalled ambitions.

When their marriage reaches a sudden breaking point, the wife tries to retrace the steps that have led them to this place, invoking everything from Kafka to the Stoics to doomed Russian cosmonauts as she analyzes what is lost and what remains. In language that shimmers with rage and longing and wit, Offill has created a brilliantly suspenseful love story--a novel to read in one sitting, even as its piercing meditations linger long after the last page.

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