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5 result(s) for "Offill, Jenny, 1968-"
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Dept. of speculation
\"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 catastrophes--a colicky baby, bedbugs, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions--the 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 can be read in a single sitting, but there are enough bracing emotional insights in these pages to fill a much longer novel. \"-- Provided by publisher.
Last things : a novel
Grace's father believes in science and builds his daughter a dollhouse with lights that really work. Grace's mother takes her skinny-dipping in the lake and teaches her about African hyena men who devour their wives in their sleep. Grace's world, of fact and fiction, marvels and madness, is slowly unraveling because her family is coming apart before her eyes. Now eight-year-old Grace must choose between her two very different, very flawed parents, a choice that will take her on a dizzying journey, away from her home in Vermont to the boozy, flooded streets of New Orleans--and into the equally wondrous and frightening realm of her own imagination.
ركن التأمل
ركن التأمل هي بورتريه متمعن لحياة زوجية وبوح شجاع بأسرار الحميمية والثقة والإيمان والمعرفة، وبيان أدبي عن حالة غرق السفينة العالمية الذي يوحدنا جميعا. بطلة جيني أوفيل، المشار إليها في صفحات الرواية بكل بساطة ب\"الزوجة\"، كانت تتبادل مع زوجها رسائل الحب المختومة بختم بريدي لعنوان المرسل هو ركن التأمل، ليرمز ذلك إلى شعور بحالة عدم اليقين الذي يوجد في الحياة، والذي يتسرب من العلاقات الطويلة الأمد كالعلاقة الزوجية. وفيما يواجه الزوجان مجموعة من الكوارث الطبيعية المشتركة - طفلة رضيعة، وزواجا متعثرا، وطموحات متوقفة - تشرع الزوجة بتحليل مأزقها والتعرف على طبيعته لتتحرى أين حدثت الخسارة ؟ ولماذا ؟، وتتطرق في مسعاها ذاك إلى كل شيء من كتابات كيتس وكافكا إلى التجارب الفكرية للرواقيين ودروس رواد الفضاء الروس المرتهنين. وهي تنعم بالتجربة المستنيرة والرائعة لحب الأمهات الذي تصفه ب المحتوم والمجاني دون مقابل، وتصف التدمير شبه الكامل تقريبا للذات ، الذي ينجم عنه، حيث تواجه الاحتكاك بين الحياة المنزلية وبين إغراءات ومطالب الفن في طموحاتها ورغبتها في التفرغ له وحده بدقة باردة، وفي لغة تبرق بالغضب والذكاء والشوق الشرس، تصنع جيني أوفيل قصة حب مشوقة بشكل رائع، لها سرعة قطار يسري خلال الليل في سرعة قصوى رقيقة وصلبة ومتماسكة بشكل استثنائي.
11 experiments that failed
A hyper-curious young girl tries a series of wacky experiments, such as seeing if a piece of bologna will fly like a frisbee and determining whether seedlings will grow if watered with expensive perfume, and then must suffer the consequences of experiments gone awry.
17 things I'm not allowed to do anymore
A young girl lists the sixteen things she is not allowed to do anymore, including not being able to make ice after freezing a fly in one of the cubes.