Format:
Eaudiobook, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Read-along, Electronic Resources
Title:
A disorder peculiar to the country [electronic resource] / Ken Kalfus.
Author:
Kalfus, Ken.
Call Number:
Audio eBook
Web Site:
Web Link Available online.
Publisher, Date:
[Stratford, Conn.] : Audio Evolution, 2007.
Summary:
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.
Subjects:
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Fiction.
Marital conflict -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Audiobooks.
Other Author:
Boles, James.
ISBN:
* 9870978771218