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Act of God

English · Paperback / Softback

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Part horror story, part screwball comedy, ACT OF GOD considers what happens when our lives - so seemingly set and ordered yet so precariously balanced - break down in the wake of calamity. It is, also, a novel about love found in the most unlikely circumstances.


About the author

Jill Ciment was born in Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Small Claims, a collection of short stories and novellas; the novels The Law of Falling Bodies, Teeth of the Dog, The Tattoo Artist, and Heroic Measures; and a memoir, Half a Life. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, among them a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and a Guggenheim fellowship. Ciment is a professor at the University of Florida. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, and Brooklyn, New York. Pushkin will publish her latest novel Act of God in 2016

Summary

Brooklyn, the summer of 2015. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heatwave, accompanied by biblical rains, and now a mysteriously glowing mushroom infestation is threatening the city. As the HAZMAT squad descends, identical twin sisters Edith, a recently retired librarian, and Kat, a feckless romantic who mistakes her own eccentricity for originality, are evacuated from their terraced house alongside their landlady and a Russian interloper, caught in a centrifugal nightmare. And as the mould spreads from house to house, frightened and bewildered New Yorkers wonder whether this plague on all their houses is an act of God...
Part horror story, part screwball comedy, Act of God considers what happens when our lives - so seemingly set and ordered yet so precariously balanced - break down in the wake of calamity. It is, also, a novel about love found in the most unlikely circumstances.

Foreword

A brilliant comic suspense novel and perfect summer read

Product details

Authors Jill Ciment, Ciment Jill
Publisher Pushkin Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.07.2016
 
EAN 9781782272113
ISBN 978-1-78227-211-3
No. of pages 192
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)

FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Humorous / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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