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A Disorder Peculiar to the Country

A Novel

By Ken Kalfus

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| Paperback | 9780060501419

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Joyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11—and must swallow their disappointment when the other arrives home. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, and foreign wars, they suffer, in ways unexpectedly personal and increasinglContinue

Joyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11—and must swallow their disappointment when the other arrives home. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, and foreign wars, they suffer, in ways unexpectedly personal and increasingly ludicrous, the many strange ravages of our time. In this astonishing black comedy, Kalfus suggests how our nation's public calamities have encroached upon our most private illusions.

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  • Divorce in detail

    A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus 237pp, Simon & Schuster, £12.99 The implied promise of President Bush's war on terror is to make Americans safe in their homes. This second novel by Ken Kalfus, who now applies to American modernity th ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • A Disorder Peculiar to the Country

    Like their country, Marshall and Joyce Harriman, a Brooklyn Heights couple, are at war. They are one year into an impossibly bitter divorce, and their hatred for one another has “acquired the intensity of something historic, tribal, and ethnic.” When ... (read full critics)

    newyorker published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 256 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0060501413
  • ISBN-13: 9780060501419
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Pub date: Dec 01, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 774 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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