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Amateur Barbarians : A Novel Hardcover Robert Cohen
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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
0743230361
ISBN-13
9780743230360
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71646031
Product Key Features
Book Title
Amateur Barbarians : a Novel
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
20.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-012256
Dewey Edition
22
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" How can a book about life's most serious questions contain so many big laughs? Only a writer of Cohen's wit and intelligence could have pulled it off. He writes with the acuity of a psychoanalyst and the compassion of a saint. His superb prose style is as good as it gets." -- Sigrid Nunez, author of The Last of Her Kind, "If there's one thing that Robert Cohen's protagonists are good at, it's running in place. His characters trail around a long list of aggrievements, especially when it comes to themselves, and are continually affecting in the comic resourcefulness of their dyspepsia and pessimism. What's most moving about them, though, is the extent to which, as they try to figure out just how this maturity business operates, they perform the act of faith of behaving like better people in the hope that at some point that behavior might become the truth.Amateur Barbariansis hilarious and wise and may be his best work yet." -- Jim Shepard, author ofLike You'd Underst and, Anyway, "If there's one thing that Robert Cohen's protagonists are good at, it's running in place. His characters trail around a long list of aggrievements, especially when it comes to themselves, and are continually affecting in the comic resourcefulness of their dyspepsia and pessimism. What's most moving about them, though, is the extent to which, as they try to figure out just how this maturity business operates, they perform the act of faith of behaving like better people in the hope that at some point that behavior might become the truth. Amateur Barbarians is hilarious and wise and may be his best work yet." -- Jim Shepard, author of Like You'd Underst and, Anyway, "Robert Cohen's satirical eye is sharper than ever -- who else could have captured so perfectly the struggles of middle age? A very funny and very smart novel." -- Andrea Barrett, author of The Air We Breathe and Ship Fever, "Robert Cohen's satirical eye is sharper than ever -- who else could have captured so perfectly the struggles of middle age? A very funny and very smart novel." -- Andrea Barrett, author ofThe Air We BreatheandShip Fever, " How can a book about life's most serious questions contain so many big laughs? Only a writer of Cohen's wit and intelligence could have pulled it off. He writes with the acuity of a psychoanalyst and the compassion of a saint. His superb prose style is as good as it gets." -- Sigrid Nunez, author ofThe Last of Her Kind
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Acclaimed, award-winning novelist Robert Cohen delivers a bold, provocative exploration of the panic of midlife, follow- ing two men plateaued on either side of their forties and the unexpected consequences of changing course. Teddy Hastings is a New England middle school principal desperate for transcendence. Unmoored by his brother's death and a health scare of his own, he tries to broaden his ordinary life and winds up unemployed and on the wrong side of the law. Meanwhile, Oren Pierce, a per- petual grad student from New York, abandons, somewhat to his own surprise, his search for the extraordinary and begins settling into the humble existence that Teddy seeks to escape. What comforts Oren alarms Teddy, and their paths overlap as Teddy's quest for the unknown and unfamiliar experience takes him on a rash trip to Africa, leaving Oren to assume the trappings of his life, including Teddy's wife Gail. Amateur Barbarians showcases a writer at the peak of his powers, tracing domestic ambivalence, the comic perils of introspection and desire, and the terror of an unlived life with Cohen's signature wit and uncanny perception, proving yet again why he was touted by The New York Times Book Review as the "heir to Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.", From award-winner Robert Cohen: a bold, hilarious novel about midlife panic and the intersecting lives of two men on either side of their forties., Teddy Hastings, a middle-aged, middle-school principal in the rural New England town of Carthage, is thrown into a crisis by the death of his younger brother, Philip, and his own cancer scare. Desperately seeking purpose beyond his daily routine, he takes a photography class at a nearby college, only unexpectedly to run afoul of the law and find himself on an enforced sabbatical. Meanwhile, Oren Pierce, the young, acting vice principal at Teddy's middle school, has the opposite problem. A perpetual student who has always flitted around the edge of things, he longs for the settled life of Carthage. Teddy's and Oren's lives overlap as Teddy heads to Africa to rescue his wayward daughter and make a spiritual pilgrimage to the Great Rift Valley, while Oren strikes up a friendshipand morewith Teddy's wife, Gail. What each finds, ultimately, is a path through his existential dilemma. While Cohen's work has been compared to that of Bellow and Cheever, he's firmly in Updike country here. This marvelously written seriocomic novel is highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 3/1/09.]Lawrence Rungren, Merrimack Valley Lib. Consortium, North Andover, MA Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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PS3553.O4273A8 2009
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