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Bottle grove : a novel
- Title
- Bottle grove : a novel / Daniel Handler.
- Author
- Handler, Daniel
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
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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 20-1022 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 227 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "This is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove - bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests, lustful teenagers, drunken revelers, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down. The girl in the corner slugging vodka from a cough-syrup bottle is Padgett - she's keeping something secreted in the woods. The couple at the altar are the newly named Nickels, as the bride is emphatic about changing her name - there is plenty about her old life she is ready to forget. Set in San Francisco as the tech-boom is exploding, Bottle Grove is a sexy, skewering dark comedy about two unions - one forged of love and the other of greed - and about the forces that can drive couples together, into dependence, and then into sinister, even supernatural realms. Add one ominous shape-shifter to the mix, and you get a delightful and strange spectacle: a story of scheming and yearning and foibles and love and what we end up doing for it - and everyone has a secret. Looming over it all is the income disparity between San Francisco's tech community and . . . everyone else."--Publisher description.
- The small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove was bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good. At a wedding held in the forest, lustful teenagers, drunken revelers, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down. Padgett, the girl in the corner slugging vodka from a cough-syrup bottle, is keeping something secreted in the woods. The new bride is emphatic about changing her name-- there is plenty about her old life she is ready to forget. Add one shape-shifter to the mix. Everyone has a secret-- and schemes, and yearnings. -- adapted from jacket
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Novels.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-1022
- ISBN
- 9781632864277
- 1632864274
- LCCN
- 2018044230
- OCLC
- 1054260856
- Author
- Handler, Daniel, author.
- Title
- Bottle grove : a novel / Daniel Handler.
- Publisher
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-1022