The guest lecture : a novel
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Published
New York : Black Cat, [2023].
Status
Central - Adult Fiction
F RIKER
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F RIKER
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F RIKER
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Published
New York : Black Cat, [2023].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 21 cm
Street Date
2301
Language
English
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"In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter. Anxious that she is grossly underprepared for a talk she is presenting tomorrow on optimism and John Maynard Keynes, she has resolved to practice by using an ancient rhetorical method of assigning parts of her speech to different rooms in her house, and has brought along a comforting albeit imaginary companion to keep her on track-Keynes himself. Yet as she wanders with increasing alarm through the rooms of her own consciousness, Abby repeatedly finds herself straying from her prepared remarks on economic history, utopia, and Keynes's pragmatic optimism. A lapsed optimist herself, she has been struggling under the burden of supporting a family in an increasingly hostile America after being denied tenure at the university where she teaches. Confronting her own future at a time of global darkness, Abby undertakes a hero's quest through her memories to ideas hidden in the corners of her mind-a piecemeal intellectual history from Cicero to Lewis Carroll to Queen Latifah-as she asks what a better world would look like if we told our stories with more honest and more hopeful imaginations"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Riker, M. (2023). The guest lecture: a novel (First edition.). Black Cat.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Riker, Martin, 1973-. 2023. The Guest Lecture: A Novel. Black Cat.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Riker, Martin, 1973-. The Guest Lecture: A Novel Black Cat, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Riker, Martin. The Guest Lecture: A Novel First edition., Black Cat, 2023.
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