David Leavitt: Shelter in Place
Shelter in Place
Buch
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 04/2022
- Binding: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781408845950
- Order number: 10682681
- Volume: 384 Pages
- Weight: 268 g
- Format: 199 x 129 mm
- Thickness: 27 mm
- Release date: 14.4.2022
Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
'Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet' Rachel Cusk'A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel' Jenny Offill
It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, a group of New Yorkers has gathered to recover from what they consider the greatest political catastrophe of their lives. Liberal and like-minded, the friends have come to the countryside in the hope of restoring the bubble in which they have grown used to living.
Moving through her days accompanied by a carefully curated salon, Eva Lindquist is a generous hostess with an obsession for decorating. Yet when, in her avidity to secure shelter for herself, she persuades her husband to buy a grand if dilapidated apartment in Venice, she unwittingly sets off the chain of events that will propel him to venture outside the bubble and embark on an unexpected love affair.
A slyly comic look at the shelter industry, Shelter in Place is a novel about house and home, safety and freedom and the insidious ways in which political upheaval can undermine even the most seemingly impregnable foundations.