Act of God by Ciment, Jill

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“Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ...
Binding
Hardcover
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ISBN
9780307911704
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307911705
ISBN-13
9780307911704
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201646940

Product Key Features

Book Title
Act of God : a Novel
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Horror, Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction
Author
Jill Ciment
Format
Hardcover

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0.8 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.3 in

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Trade
LCCN
2014-012087
Reviews
Praise for Jill Ciment's ACT OF GOD   "In this swiftly paced, niftily written comedy turned horror novel, even the most settled lives are upended, the tiniest character flaws come back to bite, and love and redemption arrive when you least expect them."                                                                    -Amanda Lovell, More     "Keenly intelligent . . . Ciment orchestrates an increasingly complicated plot with consummate skill . . . In fewer than 200 pages, Ciment has pulled off an admirable literary feat, creating a novel that moves at the speed of light, all the while urging us to pause and look inward."                                                           -Harvey Freedenberg, BookPage     "Beautiful, tightly controlled, and fascinating . . . Both the plotting and writing are very strong, and the moody, slow-burn fascination of the story makes this one a winner."                                                           -BookRiot   "In a feat of literary magic, Ciment slips an abundance of suspenseful action, incisive humor, far-ranging wisdom, and complex emotion into this inventive, caring, devour-all-at-once novel of self, family, community, and doing right."                                                           - Booklist   "Humanity, warmth and wry humor light up Ciment's noirish novel . . . This absorbing novel about a luminescent fungus affixes itself to your psyche like a spore and quickly spreads to your heart, setting everything in its wake aglow."                                                                    - Kirkus (Starred Review)
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Jill Ciment's books have been hailed as "stunning," "powerful," and "provocative." Alice Sebold has called her works "beautifully written." Now the author of Heroic Measures ("Smart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every page." --Ann Patchett; "Brave, generous, nearly perfect." -- Los Angeles Times ) has given us a contemporary noir novel that starts out a comedy of errors and turns darker at every hairpin turn.   It's the summer of 2015, Brooklyn. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, a feckless romantic who's mistaken her own eccentricity for originality, discover something ominous in their hall closet: it seems to be phosphorescent, it's a mushroom . . . and it's sprouting from their wall.   Upstairs, their landlady, Vida Cebu, a Shakespearian actress far more famous for her TV commercials for Ziberax (the first female sexual enhancement pill) than for her stage work, discovers that a petite Russian girl, a runaway au pair, has been secretly living in her guest room closet. When the police arrest the intruder, they find a second mushroom, also glowing, under the intruder's bedding. Soon the HAZMAT squad arrives, and the four women are forced to evacuate the contaminated row house with only the clothes on their backs.   As the mold infestation spreads from row house to high-rise, and frightened, bewildered New Yorkers wait out this plague (is it an act of God?) on their city and property, the four women become caught up in a centrifugal nightmare.   Part horror story, part screwball comedy, Jill Ciment's brilliant suspense novel looks at what happens when our lives--so seemingly set and ordered yet so precariously balanced--break down in the wake of calamity. It is, as well, a novel about love (familial and profound) and how it can appear from the most unlikely circumstances., Jill Ciment s books have been hailed as stunning, powerful, and provocative. Alice Sebold has called her works beautifully written. Now the author of Heroic Measures ( Smart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every page. Ann Patchett; Brave, generous, nearly perfect. Los Angeles Times ) has given us a contemporary noir novel that starts out a comedy of errors and turns darker at every hairpin turn. It s the summer of 2015, Brooklyn. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, a feckless romantic who s mistaken her own eccentricity for originality, discover something ominous in their hall closet: it seems to be phosphorescent, it s a mushroom . . . and it s sprouting from their wall. Upstairs, their landlady, Vida Cebu, a Shakespearian actress far more famous for her TV commercials for Ziberax (the first female sexual enhancement pill) than for her stage work, discovers that a petite Russian girl, a runaway au pair, has been secretly living in her guest room closet. When the police arrest the intruder, they find a second mushroom, also glowing, under the intruder s bedding. Soon the HAZMAT squad arrives, and the four women are forced to evacuate the contaminated row house with only the clothes on their backs. As the mold infestation spreads from row house to high-rise, and frightened, bewildered New Yorkers wait out this plague (is it an act of God?) on their city and property, the four women become caught up in a centrifugal nightmare. Part horror story, part screwball comedy, Jill Ciment s brilliant suspense novel looks at what happens when our lives so seemingly set and ordered yet so precariously balanced break down in the wake of calamity. It is, as well, a novel about love (familial and profound) and how it can appear from the most unlikely circumstances."
LC Classification Number
PR9199.3.C499A28

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