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Dinosaurs on the Roof
David Rabe
Simon & Schuster
June 2008
On Sale: June 10, 2008
496 pages
ISBN: 1416564055
EAN: 9781416564058
Hardcover
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In Dinosaurs on the Roof, acclaimed author and
playwright David Rabe delivers a singular work that
reaffirms his extraordinary range and talent, and introduces
a story and a collection of characters whose genuine
audacity will echo with readers for years to come. In the
town of Belger, Iowa, recently divorced Janet Cawley is
attempting to find some peace and quiet, and perhaps a
solitary place where she can finally fall apart. She's quit
her job teaching fourth grade, though with the money she
has, she will probably get along fine for another six
months. She still needs to extricate herself from an affair
with an ex-colleague that has the neighbors talking, but
after that she can spend her time alone, jogging, drinking,
and making the occasional trip into town. Her plans are
interrupted one morning by the sudden appearance of her
now-deceased mother's oldest friend, Bernice, who has an
urgent matter to discuss. Bernice's preacher, it seems, has
informed his congregation that they are to be visited by the
Rapture that very evening -- and Bernice's first question,
and most pressing fear, is how her dogs and cats will be fed
and cared for after she's gone. Through that night and
into the next, the lives of these two women will become
inextricably woven together as they struggle to find reason
in the incomprehensible and sometimes ludicrous events that
unfold, and search for tangible signs of faith in themselves
and the world around them. Dinosaurs on the Roof is a
magnificent novel that speaks volumes about spirituality in
the twenty-first century and explores the intimate, everyday
gestures of the strangers closest to us with unforgettable
humor and remarkable humanity.
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