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The Astral: A Novel

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The Astral: A Novel

From the PEN/Faulkner Awardâ€“winning author of The Great Man, a scintillating novel of love, loss, and literary rivalry set in rapidly changing Brooklyn.

The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartÂment building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For decades it was the happy home (or so he thought) of the poet Harry Quirk and his wife, Luz, a nurse, and of their two children: Karina, now a ferÂvent freegan, and Hector, now in the clutches of a cultish Christian community. But Luz has found (and destroyed) some poems of Harryâ€™s that ignite her long-simmering susÂpicions of infidelity, and heâ€™s been summarily kicked out. He now has to reckon with the consequence of his literary, marital, financial, and parental failures (and perhaps othÂers) and find his way forwardâ€”and back into Luzâ€™s good graces.

Harry Quirk is, in short, a loser, living small and low in the water. But touched by Kate Christensenâ€™s novelistic grace and acute perception, his floundering attempts to reach higher ground and forge a new life for himself become funny, bittersweet, and terrifically moving. She knows what secrets lurk in the hearts of menâ€”and she turns them into literary art of the highest order.
Country USA
Brand Doubleday
Manufacturer Doubleday
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2011-06-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385530910

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