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The Life of the Mind

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"Calling all millennials - This is the comic novel for you," THE TIMES.

"The Life of the Mind" opens with Dorothy sitting on a library toilet, checking her phone and examining the "thick, curdled knots of string" coming out of her body. No one but her boyfriend knows that she's had a miscarriage, not even her therapists - Dorothy has two of them.

An adjunct professor of English in New York City with no hope of finding a permanent position, Dorothy's stuck, unable to envision the future or cut ties with the past. "What did you call it," she asks herself, "when a life stopped developing, but it didn't end?"

Christine Smallwood's debut is a campus novel like no other. Piercingly intelligent and darkly hilarious, it moves from a classroom to an underwater puppet show, from a conference in Las Vegas to a karaoke party. It is a discomforting glimpse into the head of a brilliant woman on the edge, it is a novel about endings: of youth, of professional aspiration, of possibility, of the illusion that our minds can ever free us from the tyranny of our bodies.

  • Author: Christine Smallwood
  • Manufacturer: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
  • Language: Angļu valoda
  • ISBN code: 9781787703452
  • Cover type: Soft cover
  • Year of publication:2021
  • Number of pages:240

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