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Subdivision : a novel
- Title
- Subdivision : a novel / J. Robert Lennon.
- Author
- Lennon, J. Robert, 1970-
- Publication
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2021]
- ©2021
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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 21-2431 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 231 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "A heady, inventive, fantastical novel about the nature of memory and the difficulty of confronting trauma. An unnamed woman checks into a guesthouse in a mysterious district known only as the Subdivision. The guesthouse's owners, Clara and the Judge, are welcoming and helpful, if oddly preoccupied by the perpetually baffling jigsaw puzzle in the living room. With little more than a hand-drawn map and vague memories of her troubled past, the narrator ventures out in search of a job, an apartment, and a fresh start in life. Accompanied by an unusually assertive digital assistant named Cylvia, the narrator is drawn deeper into an increasingly strange, surreal, and threatening world, which reveals itself to her through a series of darkly comic encounters reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels. A lovelorn truck driver . . . a mysterious child . . . a watchful crow. A cryptic birthday party. A baffling physics experiment in a defunct office tower where some calamity once happened. Through it all, the narrator is tempted and manipulated by the bakemono, a shape-shifting demon who poses a distinctly terrifying danger. Harrowing, meticulous, and deranged, Subdivision is a brilliant maze of a novel. With the narrative intensity and mordant humor familiar to readers of Broken River, J. Robert Lennon continues his exploration of the mysteries of perception and memory."--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Suspense fiction, American.
- Note
- "First Graywolf Printing, 2021"--Title page verso.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-2431
- ISBN
- 9781644450482
- 1644450488
- LCCN
- 2020937598
- OCLC
- 1228514913
- Author
- Lennon, J. Robert, 1970- author.
- Title
- Subdivision : a novel / J. Robert Lennon.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-2431