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Still life with monkey
- Title
- Still life with monkey / Katharine Weber.
- Author
- Weber, Katharine, 1955-
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2018.
- ©2018
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-220 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 287 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Duncan Wheeler is a successful architect who savors the quotidian pleasures in life until a car accident leaves him severely paralyzed and haunted by the death of his young assistant. Now, Duncan isn't sure what there is left to live for, when every day has become a broken series of unsuccessful gestures. Duncan and his wife, Laura, find themselves in conflict as Duncan's will to live falters. Laura grows desperate to help him. An art conservator who has her own relationship to the repair of broken things, Laura brings home a highly trained helper monkey--a tufted capuchin named Ottoline--to assist Duncan with basic tasks. Duncan and Laura fall for this sweet, comical, Nutella-gobbling little creature, and Duncan's life appears to become more tolerable, fuller, and funnier. Yet the question persists: Is it enough? Katharine Weber is a masterful observer of humanity, and Still Life with Monkey, full of tenderness and melancholy, explores the conflict between the will to live and the desire to die"--Amazon.com.
- A car accident leaves architect Duncan Wheeler severely paralyzed and haunted by the death of his young assistant. As every day becomes a broken series of unsuccessful gestures, Duncan and his wife, Laura find themselves in conflict. Duncan's will to live falters; Laura grows desperate to help him. An art conservator who has her own relationship to the repair of broken things, Laura brings home a highly trained helper monkey-- a tufted capuchin named Ottoline-- to assist Duncan with basic tasks. As Duncan's life appears to become more tolerable, fuller, and funnier, the question persists: Is it enough? -- adapted from Amazon.com info
- Subject
- Architects > Fiction
- Traffic accident victims > Fiction
- Guilt > Fiction
- Suicide > Fiction
- Monkeys as aids for people with disabilities > Fiction
- Capuchin monkeys > Fiction
- FICTION > Animals
- FICTION > Family Life
- FICTION > Literary
- Architects
- Capuchin monkeys
- Guilt
- Monkeys as aids for people with disabilities
- Suicide
- Traffic accident victims
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-220
- ISBN
- 158988129X
- 9781589881297
- LCCN
- 2018939679
- OCLC
- 1022780193
- Author
- Weber, Katharine, 1955- author.
- Title
- Still life with monkey / Katharine Weber.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First Paul Dry books edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-220