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Doubleday
June 2011
On Sale: June 14, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 0385530919
EAN: 9780385530910
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The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartment
building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint,
Brooklyn. For decades it was the happy home (or so he
thought) of the poet Harry Quirk and his wife, Luz, a nurse,
and of their two children: Karina, now a fervent freegan,
and Hector, now in the clutches of a cultish Christian
community. But Luz has found (and destroyed) some poems of
Harry’s that ignite her long-simmering suspicions of
infidelity, and he’s been summarily kicked out. He now has
to reckon with the consequence of his literary, marital,
financial, and parental failures (and perhaps others) and
find his way forward—and back into Luz’s good graces. Harry Quirk is, in short, a loser, living small and low in
the water. But touched by Kate Christensen’s novelistic
grace and acute perception, his floundering attempts to
reach higher ground and forge a new life for himself become
funny, bittersweet, and terrifically moving. She knows what
secrets lurk in the hearts of men—and she turns them into
literary art of the highest order.
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