American Genius, A Comedy,Used

American Genius, A Comedy,Used

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Grand and minute, elegiac and hilarious, Lynne Tillman expands the possibilities of the American novel in this dazzling read about a former historian ruminating on her own life and the lives of othersnamed a best book of the century by Vulture.In the hypnotic, masterful American Genius, A Comedy, a former historian spending time in a residential home, mental institute, artists colony, or sanitarium, is spinning tales of her life and ruminating on her many and varied preoccupations: chair design, textiles, pet deaths, family trauma, a lost brother, the Manson family, the Zulu alphabet, loneliness, memory, and sensitive skinand what sensitivity means in our culture and society.Showing what might happen if Jane Austen were writing in 21stcentury America, Tillman fashions a microcosm of American democracy: a scholarly colony functioning like Melville's Pequod. All this is folded into the narrator's memories and emotional life, culminating in a seance that may offer escape and transcendenceor perhaps nothing at all. This new edition of a contemporary classic features an introduction by novelist Lucy Ives.

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