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Leaving the Sea

Leaving the Sea

Marcus, Ben

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0307739988
ISBN13: 9780307739988
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Oct 7 2014
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
By turns hilarious and heartfelt, dark and illuminative, Ben Marcus's Leaving the Sea is a ground breaking collection of stories from one of the single most vital, extraordinary, and unique writers of his generation.

In the heartfelt I Can Say Many Nice Things, a washed-up writer toying with infidelity leads a creative writing workshop on board a cruise ship. In the dystopian Rollingwood, a divorced father struggles to take care of his ill infant, as his ex-wife and colleagues try to render him irrelevant. In Watching Mysteries with My Mother, a son meditates on his mother's mortality, hoping to stave off her death for as long as he sits by her side. And in the title story, told in a single breathtaking sentence, we watch as the narrator's marriage and his sanity unravel, drawing him to the brink of suicide. Surreal and tender, terrifying and life-affirming, Leaving the Sea is the work of an utterly unique writer at the height of his powers.

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