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Zusatztext “Singularly imaginative. . . . An exceptionally smart, provocative novel. . . . A Disorder Peculiar to the Country is a dark comedy with serious things to say about the difficult, unsettling times in which we live.” Informationen zum Autor ken kalfus is the author of a novel, The Commissariat of Enlightenment , and the short story collections Thirst , which won the Salon Book Award, and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies , which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Klappentext Joyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11—and must swallow their disappointment when the other arrives home. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, and foreign wars, they suffer, in ways unexpectedly personal and increasingly ludicrous, the many strange ravages of our time. In this astonishing black comedy, Kalfus suggests how our nation’s public calamities have encroached upon our most private illusions. Zusammenfassung 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 arrives home. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, and foreign wars, they suffer, in ways unexpectedly personal and increasingly ludicrous, the many strange ravages of our time. In this astonishing black comedy, Kalfus suggests how our nation’s public calamities have encroached upon our most private illusions.
