Subdivision
A Novel
$36.82
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
29 June 2021
Summary
An unnamed woman checks into a guesthouse in a mysterious district known only as the Subdivision. The guesthouse’s owners, Clara and the Judge, are welcoming and helpful, if oddly preoccupied by the perpetually baffling jigsaw puzzle in the living room. With little more than a hand-drawn map and vague memories of her troubled past, the narrator ventures out in search of a job, an apartment, and a fresh start in life.
Accompanied by an unusually assertive digital assistant named Cylvia…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644450482 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1644450488 |
| Author: | J. Robert Lennon |
| Publisher: | Graywolf Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Graywolf Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 29 June 2021 |
| Weight: | 306g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 144mm x 213mm |
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Critics Review
“An askew, uncanny–and consistently compelling–novel about memory, dislocation, and trauma… . [Lennon’s] tone is surreal and the result sometimes,
“A dazzling enigma packed with mysteries in miniature… . Is the Subdivision a place, an emotion or an event lodged in the back of the mind? Is it limbo, or a wall persuaded to shield us from the truth? Lennon is a masterly aggregator of dread. His refusal to neatly answer these questions allows for a bold, unsettling narrative to take shape.”–The New York Times Book Review
“Strange and subtle, disconcerting and delightful, Subdivision proves a masterful mystery until its very end.”–Zyzzyva
“An askew, uncanny–and consistently compelling–novel about memory, dislocation, and trauma… . [Lennon’s] tone is surreal and the result sometimes, à la Kafka, darkly funny. The novel features elements of the picaresque …, but it also has the everyday-suburban-made-strange-and-luminous quality of Steven Millhauser and the gleefully absurd, improvised feel of César Aira… . Sharp, inventive–and disorienting in all the good ways.”–Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Deliriously inventive… . This is an impressive marriage of a vibrant, tortuous fever dream and an unsentimental meditation on life and death.”–Publishers Weekly
“J Robert Lennon [is] one of our most reliably interesting and adventurous novelists.”–The Millions
J. Robert Lennon
J. Robert Lennon is the author of nine novels and three story collections, including Let Me Think. His fiction has appeared in Paris Review, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, and New Yorker.
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