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Book of extraordinary tragedies
- Title
- Book of extraordinary tragedies / Joe Meno.
- Author
- Meno, Joe
- Publication
- Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, 2022.
- ©2022
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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 23-15 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 346 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Aleksandar and Isobel are siblings and former classical music prodigies, once destined for greatness. As the only Eastern European family growing up on their block on the far southside of Chicago, the pair were inseparable until each was forced to confront the absurdity of tragedy at an early age and abandon their musical ambitions. Now in their twenties, they find themselves encountering ridiculous jobs, unfulfilling romantic relationships, and the outrageousness of ordinary life. Doomed by fate, a family history of failure, an odd mother, an absent father, and a younger brother with a peculiar fondness for catastrophes, the two siblings have all but given up. But when an illness forces Isobel and her three-year-old daughter to move back into the family home, Aleks becomes deeply involved in the endless challenges that surround his relatives. Once Isobel begins playing cello again, Aleks comes to see a world of possibility and wonder in the lives of his extraordinarily complicated family."--
- Subject
- Gifted children > Fiction
- Musicians > Fiction
- Polish American families > Fiction
- Fate and fatalism > Fiction
- Expectation (Psychology) > Fiction
- Failure (Psychology) > Fiction
- Expectation (Psychology)
- Failure (Psychology)
- Fate and fatalism
- Gifted children
- Musicians
- Polish American families
- Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction
- Illinois > Chicago
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-15
- ISBN
- 1636140602
- 9781636140605
- LCCN
- 2022931852
- OCLC
- 1315536967
- Author
- Meno, Joe, author.
- Title
- Book of extraordinary tragedies / Joe Meno.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-15