A disorder peculiar to the country [electronic resource] / Ken Kalfus.
Joyce and Marshall Harriman are in the midst of a contentious divorce, but still sharing a cramped, overmortgaged Brooklyn apartment with their two children. On the morning of September 11, Joyce departs for Newark to catch a flight to San Francisco, and Marshall, after dropping the kids at daycare, heads for his office in the World Trade Center. She misses her flight and he's late for work, but on that grim day, in devastated city, among millions seized by fear and grief, each thinks the other is dead, and each is secretly, shamefully, gloriously happy. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, foreign wars, and the stock market collapse, they suffer, in ways unexpectedly personal and increasingly ludicrous, the many strange ravages of our time. In this astonishing black comedy, Kalfus suggests how our nation's public calamities have encroached upon our most private illusions.
Record details
- Publisher: [Stratford, Conn.] : Audio Evolution, 2007.
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General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 8:35:54. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by James Boles. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 123580 KB; MP3 file size: 242579 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Fiction. Marital conflict > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Historical fiction. Audiobooks. |