Breakable You
by Brian Morton | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780156033176 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9780156033176 Global Overview for this book
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From The New Yorker
This packed novel about the vagaries of love and grief takes place in a New York straight out of Woody Allen: enormous apartments abound, and girls in bars say things like "Paul Auster makes me wet." Adam Weller, an aging, still handsome Jewish novelist, has recently left his wife, a psychologist. She, when not (with justification) trying to smash grapefruit into Adam's face, worries about their daughter, a philosophy grad student who is having a sexually obsessive affair with an Arab-American who, in turn, is mourning the death of his young daughter from a rare blood disease. The forced, almost pedantic quality of Morton's social caricature obscures the fact that he can write ferociously moving prose about the tragedy of a child's illness. Inside his broad comedy of manners is a heartfelt novel about the redemptive power of suffering.
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From The New Yorker
This packed novel about the vagaries of love and grief takes place in a New York straight out of Woody Allen: enormous apartments abound, and girls in bars say things like "Paul Auster makes me wet." Adam Weller, an aging, still handsome Jewish novelist, has recently left his wife, a psychologist. She, when not (with justification) trying to smash grapefruit into Adam's face, worries about their daughter, a philosophy grad student who is having a sexually obsessive affair with an Arab-American who, in turn, is mourning the death of his young daughter from a rare blood disease. The forced, almost pedantic quality of Morton's social caricature obscures the fact that he can write ferociously moving prose about the tragedy of a child's illness. Inside his broad comedy of manners is a heartfelt novel about the redemptive power of suffering.
Copyright © 2006 Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker --Th
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