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- Release Year
- 2015
- ISBN
- 9780062364777
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062364774
ISBN-13
9780062364777
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204206854
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mislaid : a Novel
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Women Authors, Cultural Heritage, Family Life, Literary, Historical, Humorous / General
Genre
Fiction, Literary Collections
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-486278
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Zink's deadpan wit is matched by an ethical deadpan… [She] isn't a moralist. She creates fictional worlds beyond the bounds of the going taboos, then pushes those bounds to the logical extremes. … Mislaid uses southern racism as fuel for devious comic flights., Crafting a zany story with outlandish characters doing the unexpected, Zink successfully creates a comedy of errors offering a happy ending for an impossible situation., Zink's capacity for inventions is immense… [ Mislaid ] zips along with a giddy, lunatic momentum. It's perverse wackiness is irresistib≤ unlike just about everything engineered to make you laugh out loud, Zink's novel actually does, over and over again… She knows how to let her freak flag fly., A deceptively slim epic of family life that rivals a Greek tragedy in drama and wisdom…deftly handles race, sexuality, and coming of age. Zink's insight is beautifully braided into understated prose that never lets the tension subside… it all points to Zink's masterly subtlety and depth., [Zink] makes her big publishing debut with with this unconventional but ultimately brilliant novel that takes family, race, and the how decisions you make could resonate for years to come., "Delightfully odd…Mislaid's pathos is charmingly funny, and a sentimental streak softens the sarcasm…Zink's novel captivates from the very first page... Comic, sympathetic, heartbreaking and outrageous, Mislaid is a wonderful, raucous book with everything of life in it."- Shelf Awareness, Praise for The Wallcreeper : "[The Wallcreeper] a weird, funny, sad, and sharp story of growing up . . . Zink masterfully captures the slippery nature of human intimacy . . . This is the introduction of an exciting new voice.", Bizarre as its plot is, Mislaid is more damning than any straight-faced, shame-inducing diatribe could be. Changing our attitudes about race is slow and unsteady… But evolution in hearts and minds, Zink seems to say, can and does take place., A high comedy of racial identity...Zink is a comic writer par excellence...Both that voice and the stories Zink tells are so startling, so seemingly without antecedent, that she would seem like an outsider artist, if she did not betray so much casual erudition.", The title of Nell Zink's new novel is just the first wry, indecorous joke in this zany-brainy story...Zink writes with such faux innocence that her cracks about sexuality and race detonate only after she has riffed off to the next unlikely incident., Zink writes with energetic, ecstatic abandon… delves fearlessly and credibly into race and gender issues, onloading on old Virginia in just-right didactic bursts. Zink develops peculiar and wonderful characters, and she writes situational humor… with a deftness and ease it took John Irving twice as many books to master., [The Wallcreeper] a weird, funny, sad, and sharp story of growing up . . . Zink masterfully captures the slippery nature of human intimacy . . . This is the introduction of an exciting new voice., [Zink] further proves her narrative chops as she spins a darkly satirical story … Zink's frankness on topics like gender, racial, socioeconomic, and sexual identity politics is refreshing and bold, but it is her strong writing and lucid sentences which truly reel readers in-and keep them there., The bracing disconnect between sly, low-affect prose and Gothic strangeness recalls Flannery O'Connor and Jean Stafford--mid-century women you could imagine crossing paths with Peggy and shuddering.", A deceptively slim epic of family life that rivals a Greek tragedy in drama and wisdom… Zink's insight is beautifully braided into understated prose that never lets the tension subside., There's nothing derivative about Nell Zink's hip, hilarious and unexpectedly moving novel Mislaid… Zink has a genius for making the bizarre seem natural… makes for one of the most satisfying happy endings in recent fiction., Zink's light touch and wry manner keep you laughing more than cringing...It's Zink's world, and it bears strong but not total resemblance to the United States. I was happy to spend 242 pages in it., Zink's capacity for inventions is immense… [Mislaid] zips along with a giddy, lunatic momentum. It's perverse wackiness is irresistib≤ unlike just about everything engineered to make you laugh out loud, Zink's novel actually does, over and over again… She knows how to let her freak flag fly., Nell Zink's second novel, Mislaid, announces her as one of a handful of the best novelists on the American scene., A writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know. You might not want to believe this, but her sentences and stories are so strong and convincing that you'll have no choice., Nell Zink's The Wallcreeper was the most impressive debut of 2014…her second novel, the hilarious and genius Mislaid, which restores a kind of Whitmania to American fiction, by which I mean that it convincingly covers race, class, gender, and sexuality in the briefest of spaces with the sharpest of minds.., Mislaid's pathos is charmingly funny, and a sentimental streak softens the sarcasm... captivates from the very first page... Comic, sympathetic, heartbreaking and outrageous, Mislaid is a wonderful, raucous book., Zink's energy pulses in narration. [She] is original, unsentimental, erudite, and something of a naturalist. Her vocabulary is tremendous [and] her sentences are penetrating and agile., Looking for a brainy yet breezy novel that addresses gender, race, and class issues with levity and has a happy ending? Try Nell Zink's Mislaid… a funny, entertaining, lightweight highbrow novel perhaps best read in a single afternoon under a beach umbrella., Rich in literary allusion, irony and humor. The novel is an entertaining romp that manages to make poets Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg distant minor characters, and is ultimately about reconciliation., Perhaps most impressive about ... Mislaid is the author's seemingly endless capacity for wit…Zink peppers her story with clever one-liners and quick exchanges….It's smart, sharp prose that invests the reader in the story.|9780062364777|, Ms. Zink is a wonderfully talented writer….The thrilling early sections of Mislaid find Ms. Zink writing on a higher plane. Her prose is richer, earthier, more emotionally complex., Neither a young careerist nor a long-suffering aspirant, Nell Zink has found her way to the literary middle by a path as refreshingly eccentric as her fiction., Mislaid is a sprawling multi-generational saga of a Southern family that is as absurd and hilarious as it is tragic and seeing., The novel's charm and intelligence run deep. It's a provocative masquerade with heart, not 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., A lesbian in the conservative South during the mid-1960s, Peggy falls under the spell of Lee, a gay aristocratic poet, in Zink's zany farce. The comedy of errors cunningly exposes our deep-seated prejudices about race and desire.", Profoundly irreverent and proudly cerebral, Zink... keeps the pace ticking as the plot zips through small-time drug dealing, cross-cultural relationships and highly refreshing commentary on lesbian sexuality... Zink's gleeful obscenities are also entertaining…Mislaid shows a uniquely zany worldview., Zink's life story and her fairy-tale path to publication have nothing on the antic sparks of her prose, her freewheeling extra-canonical allusiveness, her swings from the register of love to a mode of contempt…
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voice--the author of the acclaimed The Wallcreeper --about the making and unmaking of the American family that lays bare all of our assumptions about race and racism, sexuality and desire. Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ing nue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the start--she's a lesbian, he's gay--but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind. Worried that Lee will have her committed for her erratic behavior, Peggy goes underground, adopting an African American persona for her and her daughter. They squat in a house in an African-American settlement, eventually moving to a housing project where no one questions their true racial identities. As Peggy and Lee's children grow up, they must contend with diverse emotional issues: Byrdie deals with his father's compulsive honesty; while Karen struggles with her mother's lies--she knows neither her real age, nor that she is "white," nor that she has any other family. Years later, a minority scholarship lands Karen at the University of Virginia, where Byrdie is in his senior year. Eventually the long lost siblings will meet, setting off a series of misunderstandings and culminating in a comedic finale worthy of Shakespeare. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voice--the author of the acclaimed The Wallcreeper--about the making and unmaking of the American family that lays bare all of our assumptions about race and racism, sexuality and desire. Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the start--she's a lesbian, he's gay--but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind. Worried that Lee will have her committed for her erratic behavior, Peggy goes underground, adopting an African American persona for her and her daughter. They squat in a house in an African-American settlement, eventually moving to a housing project where no one questions their true racial identities. As Peggy and Lee's children grow up, they must contend with diverse emotional issues: Byrdie deals with his father's compulsive honesty; while Karen struggles with her mother's lies--she knows neither her real age, nor that she is "white," nor that she has any other family. Years later, a minority scholarship lands Karen at the University of Virginia, where Byrdie is in his senior year. Eventually the long lost siblings will meet, setting off a series of misunderstandings and culminating in a comedic finale worthy of Shakespeare., LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voice-the author of the acclaimed The Wallcreeper-about the making and unmaking of the American family that lays bare all of our assumptions about race and racism, sexuality and desire. Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the start-she's a lesbian, he's gay-but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind. Worried that Lee will have her committed for her erratic behavior, Peggy goes underground, adopting an African American persona for her and her daughter. They squat in a house in an African-American settlement, eventually moving to a housing project where no one questions their true racial identities. As Peggy and Lee's children grow up, they must contend with diverse emotional issues: Byrdie deals with his father's compulsive honesty; while Karen struggles with her mother's lies-she knows neither her real age, nor that she is "white," nor that she has any other family. Years later, a minority scholarship lands Karen at the University of Virginia, where Byrdie is in his senior year. Eventually the long lost siblings will meet, setting off a series of misunderstandings and culminating in a comedic finale worthy of Shakespeare., 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 novel 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 novel s charm and intelligence run deep. It s a provocative masquerade with heart, not 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 nothing on the antic sparks of her prose. New York magazine"
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