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Still Life With Monkey (in English)
Katharine Weber (Author)
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Still Life With Monkey (in English) - Katharine Weber
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Synopsis "Still Life With Monkey (in English)"
"Stark and compelling . . . Rigorously unsentimental yet suffused with emotion: possibly the best work yet from an always stimulating writer."Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Katharine Webers Still Life With Monkey is a beautifully wrought paean of praise for the ordinary pleasures taken for granted by the able-bodied. In precise and often luminous prose, with intelligence and tenderness, Webers latest novel examines the question of what makes a life worth living."Washington Post"[A] deeply but delicately penetrating novel."New York Times Book Review"Webers unsentimental and poignant examination of what does and does not make life worth living is a heartbreaking triumph."Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A brilliantly crafted novel, brimming with heart."Tayari Jones, author of An American MarriageDuncan Wheeler is a successful architect who savors the quotidian pleasures in life until a car accident leaves him severely paralyzed and haunted by the death of his young assistant. Now, Duncan isnt sure what there is left to live for, when every day has become a broken series of unsuccessful gestures.Duncan and his wife, Laura, find themselves in conflict as Duncans will to live falters. Laura grows desperate to help him. An art conservator who has her own relationship to the repair of broken things, Laura brings home a highly trained helper monkeya tufted capuchin named Ottolineto assist Duncan with basic tasks. Duncan and Laura fall for this sweet, comical, Nutella-gobbling little creature, and Duncans life appears to become more tolerable, fuller, and funnier. Yet the question persists: Is it enough?Katharine Weber is a masterful observer of humanity, and Still Life with Monkey, full of tenderness and melancholy, explores the conflict between the will to live and the desire to die.
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