Subtle Bodies

**A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK** In a sophisticated romp through the tribulations and joys of marriage and friendship, a group of college friends reunites two decades after graduation. After the sudden death of Douglas, once the ringleader of a clique of self-styled wits, his four best friends are summoned to his Catskills estate to mourn his passing. Responding to a mysterious sense of emergency in the call, Ned flies in from San Francisco with his wife Nina in furious pursuit; they’re at a critical point in their attempts to conceive and she won’t let a funeral get in the way. It is Nina who gives us a pointed, irreverent commentary as the men reconvene, while Ned tries to understand what it was that made this clutch of souls his friends to begin with--before time, sex, work, and the brutal quirks of history reshaped them. Filled with unexpected, funny, telling aperçus, Norman Rush’s Subtle Bodies is also a deeply moving exploration of the meanings of life.

Product details

• Authors: Norman Rush
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.06.2014
• EAN: 9781400077137
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-7713-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 205 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Vintage International; Vintage International
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature