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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Glass

Glass

Savage, Sam

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ISBN10: 1566892732
ISBN13: 9781566892735
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: Sep 13 2011
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
From the acclaimed author of Firmin and The Cry of the Sloth--a widow, aging and alone, tells her side of the story.

Tasked with writing the preface to a reissue of her late husband's long-out-of-print novel, Edna is unexpectedly asked to take care of a vacationing neighbor's pet rat, an aquarium of fish, and an apartment full of potted plants. Sitting at her typewriter day after day, her mind drifts from one thing to another in a Proustian marathon of introspection. What eventually unfolds, as if by accident, is the story of a marriage and a portrait of a mind pushed to its limits. The reader is never quite certain if Edna's preface is an homage to her late husband or an act of belated revenge. Is she the cultured and hypersensitive victim of a crass and brutally ambitious husband? Or was Clarence the long-suffering caretaker of a neurotic and delusional wife?

The unforgettable characters in Savage's two hit novels Firmin and The Cry of the Sloth garnered worldwide critical acclaim. In Edna, once again Sam Savage has created a character marked by contradiction--simultaneously appealing and exasperating, comical and tragic.

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