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Weather - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jenny Offill (Paperback)

Weather - (Vintage Contemporaries) by  Jenny Offill (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER - From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller <i>Dept. of Speculation </i>comes a "darkly funny and urgent" (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis.</b> <p/> Lizzie works in the library of a university where she was once a promising graduate student. Her side hustle is answering the letters that come in to Hell and High Water, the doom-laden podcast hosted by her former mentor. At first it suits her, this chance to practice her other calling as an unofficial shrink--she has always played this role to her divorced mother and brother recovering from addiction--but soon Lizzie finds herself struggling to strike the obligatory note of hope in her responses. The reassuring rhythms of her life as a wife and mother begin to falter as her obsession with disaster psychology and people preparing for the end of the world grows. A marvelous feat of compression, a mix of great feeling and wry humor, <i>Weather</i> is an electrifying encounter with one of the most gifted writers at work today.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Genius. . . . Remarkable and resonant. . . . The right novel for the end of the world." <br><b>--<i>Los Angeles Times</i><br></b><br>"Tiny in size but immense in scope, radically disorienting yet reassuringly humane, strikingly eccentric and completely irresistible. . . . Luminous."<br><b> --<i>The Boston Globe</i><br></b><br>"Brilliant. . . . Offill's writing is often brisk and comic, and her book's format underlines her gifts. . . . <i>Weather</i> is her most soulful book. . . . Offill's humor is saving humor; it's as if she's splashing vinegar to deglaze a pan." <br><b>--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br></b> <br>"Darkly funny and urgent. . . . Offill is a master of the glancing blow." <br><b>--NPR<br></b><br> Jenny Offill is the master of novels told in sly, burnished fragments. . . . In Offill's hands, the form becomes something new . . . a method of distilling experience into its brightest, most blazing forms -- atoms of intense feeling. . . . These fragments feel like: teeming worlds suspended in white space, entire novels condensed into paragraphs. . . . What she is doing is coming as close as anyone ever has to writing the very nature of being itself. <br><b>--Parul Sehgal, <i>The New York Times</i><br></b> <i> </i><br> "<i>Weather </i>holds its own with the strongest examples of the new non-speculative climate fiction. It has the feel of a classic, the kind of book that future humans will read in order to figure out what people were thinking in the early decades of the twenty-first century." <br><b>--<i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i><br></b><br> "Glorious, dizzying, disconcerting and often laugh-out-loud hysterical." <br><b>--<i>USA Today</i><br></b> <br> "Time flies by in this wry story of a family--librarian Lizzie, her classics buff husband, their son, and her brother, a recovering addict. Apocalypse (climate and otherwise) looms over the narrative, and yet it is funny and hopeful too." <br><b>--<i>Vanity Fair</i><br></b> <br> "[<i>Weather</i>] solidifies the author's place among the vanguard of writers who are reinvigorating literature." <br><b>--<i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i><br></b> <br> "Compact and wholly contemporary, Jenny Offill's third novel sees a librarian find deep meaning and deep despair in her side gig as an armchair therapist for those in existential crisis. . . . A canny, comic story about the power of human need." <br><b>--<i>Esquire<br></i></b><br> "An eerily realistic reflection on what it feels like to exist in a bubble of nonstop information." <br><b>--<i>Time</i><br></b> <i> </i><br> "A beach read for those who like to worry about the beaches. . . . This is a pre-apocalyptic novel, and its subject is dread, not disaster." <br><b>--<i>The Nation</i><br></b> <br> "Like a sort of literary shadow box, the novel collects images and instances from the past few years, with the 2016 election as a clarifying point in this picture of a fraught and fragmenting world. . . . One of the wonders of Offill's writing is that her light touch lets us glimpse the very real dread lurking underneath." <br><b>--<i>Minneapolis Star Tribune<br></i></b><br> "Offill has achieved the near impossible. She has made grappling with the climate crisis not only important and challenging -- but also, a tough assignment, entertaining." <br><b>--<i>The Toronto Star</i><br></b> <i><br> </i>"Another perfectly wonderful trip inside the mind of Jenny Offill. . . . [Her] fiction is such a pleasure to read. . . . The funniness of many of her sentences indicates how precisely she calibrates them." <br><b>--<i>Slate</i><br></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>JENNY OFFILL is the author of the novels <i>Last Things </i>(a <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> First Fiction Award) and <i>Dept. of Speculation, </i> which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen-Faulkner Award, and the International Dublin Literary Award. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low-residency program at Queens University.

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