A cure for suicide
Record details
- ISBN: 9781101870136 (ebook)
- ISBN: 1101870125 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9781101870129 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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Physical Description:
239 pages ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2015]
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Subject: | Man-woman relationships Fiction Man-woman relationships |
Genre: | Fiction. Love stories. |
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A Cure for Suicide
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A Cure for Suicide
***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD*** From the author of Silence Once Begun, a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory. A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an "examiner," the man, her "claimant." The examiner is both doctor and guide, charged with teaching the claimant a series of simple functions: this is a chair, this is a fork, this is how you meet people. She makes notes in her journal about his progress: he is showing improvement yet his dreams are troubling. One day the examiner brings the claimant to a party, where he meets Hilda, a charismatic but volatile woman whose surprising assertions throw everything the claimant has learned into question. What is this village? Why is he here? And who is Hilda? A fascinating novel of love, illness, despair, and betrayal, A Cure for Suicide is the most captivating novel yet from one of our most audacious and original young writers.