Disorder Peculiar to the Country

Disorder Peculiar to the Country

by KenKalfus (Author)

Synopsis

To each other's regret, both Marshall and Joyce survived 9/11. But it looks unlikely that they will survive the apparently endless war of their divorce. Both refuse to move out of the apartment, on their lawyers' orders, and neither is above using the children as footsoldiers in their battle. They will use any psychological weapon that comes to hand - sex; money; friends; relations - to gain an advantage that might prove decisive. As the months pass the domestic skirmishes begin to echo the international. In both theatres of war, events are becoming crazier, but people tend to break before nations do. Ken Kalfus's new novel is a brilliantly insightful and compelling portrait of what our modern state of perpetual war does on the home front.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 02 Jul 2007

ISBN 10: 1416522859
ISBN 13: 9781416522850

Media Reviews
Powerful. . . . Kalfus skewers the pieties surrounding 9/11. --The New Yorker
An interesting departure from Kalfus s Slavic-inflected earlier fiction. Astringent, accomplished black comedy. --Kirkus Reviews
Brilliant. . . . It s an engaging and provocative enterprise, a novel that challenges accepted pieties and dislodges expectations. --The New York Times Book Review
Brilliant. . . . It's an engaging and provocative enterprise, a novel that challenges accepted pieties and dislodges expectations. --The New York Times Book Review
Powerful. . . . Kalfus skewers the pieties surrounding 9/11. --The New Yorker
An interesting departure from Kalfus's Slavic-inflected earlier fiction. Astringent, accomplished black comedy. --Kirkus Reviews
Author Bio
Ken Kalfus has lived in Paris, Dublin, Belgrade and Moscow. He is the author of THIRST and PU-239 AND OTHER RUSSIAN FANTASIES. His fiction has appeared in HARPERS and THE VILLAGE VOICE Literary Supplement.