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Bloomsbury
October 2012
On Sale: October 16, 2012
375 pages
ISBN: 160819938X
EAN: 9781608199389
Kindle: B008AW5OHO
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Fiction Family Life
Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife
Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly
strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in
thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than
mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering
presence that destroys Guy's peace of mind, suggesting the
wildest stories but making it impossible for him to
concentrate long enough to write any of them. Not that
anyone reads Guy anyway. Not that anyone is reading
anything. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher,
fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all
agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the meantime, is writing a
novel of her own. Guy doesn't expect her to finish it, or
even start it, but he dreads the consequences if she does.
In flight from personal disappointment and universal
despair, Guy wonders if it's time to take his love for Poppy
to another level. Fiction might be dead, but desire isn't.
And out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great
book. By turns angry, elegiac, and rude, Zoo Time is a novel
about love-love of women, love of literature, love of
laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his brilliant best.
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