of Speculation resembles no book I've read before. Part elegy and part primal scream, it's a profound and unexpectedly buoyant performance Read more and infidelity and especially love and the grueling rigors of domestic life. Wry and devastating in equal measure, the novel is a cracked mirror that throws light in every direction - on music and literature science and philosophy marriage and motherhood.

Offill's slender and cannily paced novel, her second, assembles fragments, observations, meditations and different points of view to chart the course of a troubled marriage. If I tell you that it's funny, and moving, and true that it's as compact and mysterious as a neutron that it tells a profound story of love and parenthood while invoking (among others) Keats, Kafka, Einstein, Russian cosmonauts, and advice for the housewife of 1897, will you please simply believe me, and read it?' - Michael Cunningham Show Less Product Details of Speculation navigates the jagged edges of a modern marriage to tell a story that is darkly funny, surprising and wise. Written with the dazzling lucidity of poetry, Dept. As the years rush by, fears creep in and doubts accumulate until finally their life as they know it cracks apart and they find themselves forced to reassess what they have lost, what is left, and what they want now. They got married, had a child, and skated through all the small calamities of family life. They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes for their future. The return address was always the same: Dept.

FEATURING IN THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The kind of book that you will be quoting over and over to friends who don't quite understand, until they give in and read it too. From the WOMEN'S PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR. of Speculation is an annihilating, electrifying account of marriage and motherhood, love and madness Num Pages: 192 pages. The second novel from an LA Times First Fiction Prize finalist, Dept.

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