Subtle bodies

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235 pages

English language

Published Oct. 6, 2013

ISBN:
978-1-4000-4250-0
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OCLC Number:
841199140

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When Douglas, the ringleader of a clique of self-styled wits of "superior sensibility" dies suddenly, his four remaining friends are summoned to his luxe estate high in the Catskills to memorialize his life and mourn his passing.

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reviewed Subtle bodies by Norman Rush

Funny and Bleak

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Rush is a very funny writer, and he does a great job of portraying a group of Hudson Valley elites in the shadow of George W. Bush's march to war. The ending is disheartening but feels true...maybe too true.

Subjects

  • Friendship
  • Reunions
  • Marriage
  • Fiction