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In 1960s Virginia, college freshman and ingenue Peggy falls for professor and poet Lee, and what begins as an ill-advised affair results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. Mismatched from the start she s a lesbian; he s gay Peggy eventually finds herself in crisis and runs away with their daughter, leaving their son behind.Estranged from the rest of the family, Peggy and her daughter adopt African-American identities and live in near poverty to escape detection. Meanwhile, Lee and his son carry on, enjoying all the social privileges their gender, class, and whiteness afford them. Eventually the long-lost siblings meet, setting off a series of misunderstandings that culminate in a darkly comedic finale.With an arch sense of humor and a witty satirical eye, Nell Zink upends the foundational categories of American life race, class, gender, and sexuality in a vel that is at once daring, envelope-pushing, and utterly hilarious, all the while tracing how a mother, daughter, father, and son figure out what it means to belong. The vel s charm and intelligence run deep. It s a provocative masquerade with heart, t just an exercise in role reversals, reminding us that the gaps and cracks between our insides and our outsides are the spaces where our spirits live. The New York Times Book Review Zink is a comic writer par excellence, one whose particular gift is the capacity to keep a perfectly straight face. The New Yorker Zink s life story and her fairy-tale path to publication have thing on the antic sparks of her prose. New York magazine

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Ecco Press
ISBN-10
0062364774
ISBN-13
9780062364777
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212239213

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Sewn,Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Author
Nell Zink

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Date of Publication
19/05/2015
Country of Publication
United States

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