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A philosophy of ruin : a novel
- Title
- A philosophy of ruin : a novel / Nicholas Mancusi.
- Author
- Mancusi, Nicholas
- Publication
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2019]
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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 20-1029 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 254 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Oscar Boatwright, a disenchanted philosophy professor, receives terrible news. His mother, on her way home from Hawaii with Oscar's father, has died midflight, her body cooling for hours until the plane can land. Deeply grieving, Oscar feels his life slipping out of his control. A seemingly innocuous one-night stand with a woman named Dawn becomes volatile when, on the first day of classes, he realizes she is his student, and later learns that she is a fledgling campus drug lord. To make matters worse, his family is in debt, having lost their modest savings to a self-help guru who had indoctrinated Oscar's mother by preying on her depression. Desperate to help his family, Oscar breaks with his academic personality--he agrees to help Dawn with a drug run"--Dust jacket front flap.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Suspense fiction.
- Campus fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Psychological fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-1029
- ISBN
- 9781335930668
- 1335930663
- LCCN
- 2019457265
- OCLC
- 1103227692
- Author
- Mancusi, Nicholas, author.
- Title
- A philosophy of ruin : a novel / Nicholas Mancusi.
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-1029