02450cam a2200385 i 4500 85585 85585 BJBSDDR 20230410132649.0 ta 130531s2014 nyu 000 1 eng 9780385350815 (hardback) 0385350813 (hardback) 17759451 DLC spa DLC eng pcc PS 3565 O32d 2014 813/.54 Offill, Jenny, 1968- Dept. of speculation / Jenny Offill. Department of speculation New York : Alfred A.Knopf, 2014 179 p. ; 19 cm "Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes--a colicky baby, bedbugs, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions--the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. She muses on the consuming, capacious experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the self that ensues from it, as she confronts the friction between domestic life and the seductions and demands of art. With cool precision, in language that shimmers with rage and wit and fierce longing, Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful love story that has the velocity of a train hurtling through the night at top speed. Exceptionally lean and compact, Dept. of Speculation can be read in a single sitting, but there are enough bracing emotional insights in these pages to fill a much longer novel. "-- Provided by publisher. Marriage Fiction. Matrimonio Ficción. Family life Fiction. Vida familiar Ficción. Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Novela estadounidense 203 Literatura estadounidense 1028 Cover image 9780385350815.jpg lcc BK MSFV 0 0 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 0 PS 3565 O32d 2014 00000112320 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 BK