Weather
A novel
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- 27,99 zł
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- 27,99 zł
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation comes a “darkly funny and urgent” (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis.
Lizzie works in the library of a university where she was once a promising graduate student. Her side hustle is answering the letters that come in to Hell and High Water, the doom-laden podcast hosted by her former mentor. At first it suits her, this chance to practice her other calling as an unofficial shrink—she has always played this role to her divorced mother and brother recovering from addiction—but soon Lizzie finds herself struggling to strike the obligatory note of hope in her responses. The reassuring rhythms of her life as a wife and mother begin to falter as her obsession with disaster psychology and people preparing for the end of the world grows. A marvelous feat of compression, a mix of great feeling and wry humor, Weather is an electrifying encounter with one of the most gifted writers at work today.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Jenny Offill’s short and arresting novel tackles the key issue of our time—looming climate disaster—by peering into the agile, agitated mind of a New Yorker named Lizzie Benson. Lizzie spends her days attempting to solve everyone else’s problems, anxiously struggling to save her addict brother and shield her longtime mentor from a barrage of increasingly hysterical letters from doomsday preppers. Lizzie’s brain is the shining star of Offill’s wry and incisive stream-of-consciousness story. It darts from one startling, often-hilarious observation to the next, all the while holding up a mirror to the barely controlled chaos and profound uncertainty that defines our daily lives.
