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Off course
- Title
- Off course / Michelle Huneven.
- Author
- Huneven, Michelle, 1953-
- Publication
- New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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 | JFE 14-3947 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 287 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "From the author of Blame, a new novel about the unexpected damage inflicted by romantic entanglements. It's the early 1980s: Reagan is in the White House and his trickle-down theory is gaining traction in the national psyche. Cressida Hartley, twenty-eight, a PhD candidate in economics, has moved to her parents' shabby A-frame in the Sierras, hoping to finish her dissertation about art in the marketplace. Though she came seeking solitude, she finds herself increasingly drawn into the life of the small mountain community, and she's seduced by a local lodge owner, Jakey Yates, a big, burly, immensely attractive man in his late forties. Rick Garsh, the local contractor, gives Cress a part time job. Through Rick she meets the Morrow brothers, two talented fine-finish carpenters. They are handsome, amusing, intriguing, and married. As Cress tells her best friend back home in Pasadena, being a single woman on the mountain amounts to a form of public service. Increasingly uninspired by her dissertation, Cress allows love, adultery, and obsession to commandeer her life, and soon she becomes the victim of her own perilous reasoning. Michelle Huneven is one of our most searching, elegant novelists--Richard Russo has called her "a writer of extraordinary and thrilling talent." In Off Course, she tells the cautionary tale of an intelligent young woman seeking her place in life only to discover that love is the great distraction, and impossible love the greatest distraction of all"--
- "When a PhD student ventures to a mountain cabin to finish her dissertation, the hothouse community subsumes her in a series of ill-advised relationships"--
- Subject
- Note
- "A novel"--Jacket.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-3947
- ISBN
- 9780374224479
- 0374224471
- LCCN
- 2013036858
- OCLC
- 2013036858
- Author
- Huneven, Michelle, 1953-
- Title
- Off course / Michelle Huneven.
- Publisher
- New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-3947