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Dinosaurs On The Roof
David Rabe
Simon & Schuster
August 2009
On Sale: August 11, 2009
496 pages
ISBN: 1416564063
EAN: 9781416564065
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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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