A Cure for Suicide

A Novel

    • 3.5 • 11 Ratings
    • $11.99
    • $11.99

Publisher Description

***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD***

From the author of Silence Once Begun, a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory.

A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an “examiner,” the man, her “claimant.” The examiner is both doctor and guide, charged with teaching the claimant a series of simple functions: this is a chair, this is a fork, this is how you meet people. She makes notes in her journal about his progress: he is showing improvement yet his dreams are troubling. One day the examiner brings the claimant to a party, where he meets Hilda, a charismatic but volatile woman whose surprising assertions throw everything the claimant has learned into question. What is this village? Why is he here? And who is Hilda? A fascinating novel of love, illness, despair, and betrayal, A Cure for Suicide is the most captivating novel yet from one of our most audacious and original young writers.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2015
July 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
8.7
MB

Customer Reviews

bobbiepepper ,

A Cure for Sucide

This was one of the worst books I've ever read! I was completely lost by the plot, but forced myself to finish it anyway. Needless to say, I won't be seeking out this author for his other books.

More Books by Jesse Ball

2018
2016
2014
2011
2019
2007

Customers Also Bought

2008
2019
2018
2019
2016
2018