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The Understory A Novel
Second US edition
Paperback (15 Apr 2014)
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The Understorythe debut novel from the critically acclaimed author ofThe Virginsis the haunting portrayal of Jack Gorse, an ex-lawyer, now unemployed, who walls off his inner life with elaborate rituals and routines. Every day he takes the same walk from his Upper West Side apartment to the Brooklyn Bridge. He follows the same path through Central Park; he stops to browse in the same bookstore, to eat lunch in the same diner. Threatened with eviction from his longtime apartment and caught off-guard by an attraction to a near stranger, Gorse takes steps that lead to the dramatic dissolution of the only existence he's known. As the narrative alternates between his days in New York City and his present life in a Vermont Buddhist Monastery,The Understoryunfolds as both a mystery and a psychological study, revealing that repression and self-expression can be equally destructive.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781935639855 |
Publisher: | Tin House Books |
Imprint: | Tin House |
Pub date: | 15 Apr 2014 |
Edition: | Second US edition |
DEWEY: | 813.6 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 172 |
Weight: | 204g |
Height: | 198mm |
Width: | 130mm |
Spine width: | 15mm |