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The great perhaps : a novel

Title
The great perhaps : a novel / Joe Meno.
Author
Meno, Joe.
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2009], ©2009.

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414 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
"Jonathan, a paleontologist, is searching in vain for a prehistoric giant squid; his wife, Madeline, an animal behaviorist, cannot explain her failing experiment; their daughter Amelia is a disappointed teenage revolutionary; her younger sister, Thisbe, is on a frustrated search for God; and their grandfather, Henry, wants to disappear, limiting himself to eleven words a day, then ten, then nine - one less each day until he will speak no more. Each fears uncertainty and the possibilities that accompany it. When Jonathan and Madeline suddenly decide to separate, this nuclear family is split and forced to confront its own cowardice, finally coming to appreciate the cloudiness of this modern age."--BOOK JACKET.
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Genre/Form
Psychological fiction.
ISBN
  • 9780393067965
  • 0393067963
LCCN
  • 2008054280
  • 40016754851
OCLC
  • ocn286488630
  • 286488630
  • SCSB-5479110
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries