Ken Kalfus
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In a future where sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders, Ron Patterson begins to imagine a stable life for himself, but when political divisions become resurgent, he is suddenly on dangerous and uncertain ground"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A National Book Award Finalist
"The best novel yet about 9/11.... A brilliant new comedy of manners, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country is about the way a conflict takes on a logic and momentum of its own." —Salon
"Savagely hilarious." —Elle
Joyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11—and must swallow their disappointment when the other
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"[This] book is anchored by the full text of the provocatively topical title novella that appeared in Harper's, a sometimes farcical, ultimately tragic story about the president of an international lending institution accused of sexually assaulting a housekeeper in a New York hotel. Recalling the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair with irony and compassion, Kalfus skewers international political gridlock and the hypocrisies of acceptable sexual conduct....
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