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Toxicology
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ISBN10: 0143120522
ISBN13: 9780143120520
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Mar 27 2012
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.46
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780143120520
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Mar 27 2012
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.46
Language: English
Highly entertaining . . . [Hagedorn] is an exceptional storyteller. --The Boston Globe
A bold new novel about the intersection of art, love, fame, and money from the acclaimed author of Dogeaters Jessica Hagedorn's ferociously entertaining new novel centers on two women who are neighbors in Manhattan's West Village: Mimi Smith, a filmmaker whose only screen credit is a notorious low-budget slasher movie, and Eleanor Delacroix, a legendary, scandalous literary figure now nearing eighty. Their personal and artistic lives begin to converge in unexpected ways as Eleanor grieves over the death of her longtime lover, the renowned painter Yvonne Wilder, and as Mimi confronts the challenges presented by the mysterious disappearance of her boyfriend, by her newly sober if still somewhat loopy brother, and by her wayward teenage daughter. Toxicology is a fearless, playful, and savagely funny novel about the collision of art, fame, money, love, desire, and mortality.
A bold new novel about the intersection of art, love, fame, and money from the acclaimed author of Dogeaters Jessica Hagedorn's ferociously entertaining new novel centers on two women who are neighbors in Manhattan's West Village: Mimi Smith, a filmmaker whose only screen credit is a notorious low-budget slasher movie, and Eleanor Delacroix, a legendary, scandalous literary figure now nearing eighty. Their personal and artistic lives begin to converge in unexpected ways as Eleanor grieves over the death of her longtime lover, the renowned painter Yvonne Wilder, and as Mimi confronts the challenges presented by the mysterious disappearance of her boyfriend, by her newly sober if still somewhat loopy brother, and by her wayward teenage daughter. Toxicology is a fearless, playful, and savagely funny novel about the collision of art, fame, money, love, desire, and mortality.
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