Asymmetry / Lisa Halliday.
Publication details: London : Granta Books, 2018.Description: 275 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 1783783966
- 9781783783960
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- May-December romances -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Coincidence - Fiction
- Life change events - Fiction
- Coincidence
- Life change events
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Coincidence -- Fiction
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Coincidence -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- 813.6 23
- Also issued online.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | HAL | Available | 068736 |
Also published in United States of America : Simon & Schuster, Incorporated, Feb-2018, 21-Dec-2017.
Includes bibliographical references.
Folly -- Madness -- Ezra Blazer's desert island discs.
"Alice, a young editor working in New York, meets Ezra Blazer, a famous, much older writer, and they begin an affair. Yet with nearly fifty years between them, what draws them together, and how does it work? In its provocative, playful, and at times creepy depiction of their relationship, Asymmetry illuminates the attractions of knowledge, of intellectual prowess, of self-assurance; and those of youth, of flowering, of naivety and intellectual promise. Interrupting and interacting with their story is that of Amar, an Iraqi-American economist held at Heathrow on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, whose detention gives him cause to reflect on the course of his life. Asymmetry is an extraordinary study of the power plays between young and old, West and Middle East, luck and talent, fairness and injustice, and the personal and the political. It's also an inventive, utterly contemporary and dazzling debut that will charm, delight and disarm." -- Provided by publisher.
Also issued online.