The Syzygy
Paperback
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN10: 1365031926
ISBN13: 9781365031922
Publisher: Lulu Pr
Published: Mar 10 2016
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781365031922
Publisher: Lulu Pr
Published: Mar 10 2016
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How do people get so crazy? LR Penn, it seems, knows exactly how. The Syzygy is a triptych constructed from a series of stylistically disparate narratives that portray, in their own words, the novel's main characters, three young adults working in Silicon Valley: a patient in session with her psychotherapist, a blogger spouting male chauvinist propaganda, and a man in confinement confessing to his misdeeds. Over the course of the novel, the roots of the characters' personalities are exposed and it is possible to discern how the forces that shaped their lives have instilled in them the anger, guilt, love, and lust that now govern their behavior. The book's title refers to the interactions among the celestial bodies in a gravitational system, and is suggestive of the inevitability of the calamitous events that lead to the novel's dramatic conclusion, as dictated by the inescapable past that is haunting each of the three protagonists.
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
$38.00
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
From $14.99
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
$9.50
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback
$79.43
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Baughman, Judith
Paperback
$50.74
