Dept. of Speculation

by Jenny Offill | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 1847088740 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Panzeranzi of Göteborg, Västergötland Sweden on 2/5/2017
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Journal Entry 1 by Panzeranzi from Göteborg, Västergötland Sweden on Sunday, February 5, 2017
"Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply ';the wife,' once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophesa colicky baby, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitionsthe wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. She muses on the consuming, capacious experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the self that ensues from it as she confronts the friction between domestic life and the seductions and demands of art. With cool precision, in language that shimmers with rage and wit and fierce longing, Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful love story that has the velocity of a train hurtling through the night at top speed. Exceptionally lean and compact, Dept. of Speculation is a novel to be devoured in a single sitting, though its bracing emotional insights and piercing meditations on despair and love will linger long after the last page." (bokus.com)

I had really high expectations of this novel, and in the first 50 pages I was scared that I would hate the book. Then it opened up to me and I really liked it. More than that, I could recognize thoughts and feelings in Offill´s text. Brilliant.

Bokring:

Deepswamp
Vilda
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....tillbaka till mig.

Journal Entry 2 by Panzeranzi at Göteborg, Västergötland Sweden on Sunday, February 19, 2017

Released 7 yrs ago (2/20/2017 UTC) at Göteborg, Västergötland Sweden

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Bokring!

Journal Entry 3 by wingDeepswampwing at Oskarshamn, Småland Sweden on Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Thanks! Interesting!

Journal Entry 4 by wingDeepswampwing at Oskarshamn, Småland Sweden on Sunday, February 26, 2017
Jag tyckte om den här boken, lämnar gott om utrymme för egna tankar och grubblerier!

Journal Entry 5 by wingDeepswampwing at Oskarshamn, Småland Sweden on Sunday, February 26, 2017

Released 7 yrs ago (2/26/2017 UTC) at Oskarshamn, Småland Sweden

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Fortsätter till Vilda!

Journal Entry 6 by Vilda at Stockholm, Södermanland Sweden on Thursday, March 2, 2017
Nu är den hos mig! Tack.

Journal Entry 7 by Vilda at Stockholm, Södermanland Sweden on Saturday, June 10, 2017
Jag läste den här så fort den landat men sedan kom de där vårmånaderna när allt händer... Hur som, jag tyckte om allt med den här boken. Språket! Rytmen, tråden, tonen. Tack för att jag fick upplevelsen! Nu reser den hem.

Journal Entry 8 by Vilda at Stockholm, Södermanland Sweden on Saturday, June 10, 2017

Released 6 yrs ago (6/11/2017 UTC) at Stockholm, Södermanland Sweden

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Tack för lånet!

Journal Entry 9 by Panzeranzi at Göteborg, Västergötland Sweden on Thursday, June 22, 2017
Tack för att ni ville läsa! =)

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