The Astral : a novel /

The Astral : a novel /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Christensen, Kate, 1962-
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Doubleday, 2011.
Description:	311 p ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Middle-aged men -- Fiction. Adultery -- Fiction. Parent and child -- Fiction. City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction. Adultery. City and town life. Middle-aged men. Parent and child. New York (State) -- New York. Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8441030

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ISBN:	9780385530910 (hbk.) 0385530919 (hbk.) 9780307473356 (pbk.) 030747335X (pbk.) 9780385530927 (ebk.) 0385530927 (ebk.)
Summary:	The Astral is a huge, rose-colored apartment building in the rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood of Greenpoint. For decades, it has been the happy home (or so he thought) of the poet Harry Quick and his wife, Luz, who raised two children in their rambling top-floor apartment. However, the aging Astral's glory is beginning to fade- and as the building crumbles around him, a series of events forces Harry to face the reality of his own fractured family.--From book jacket.

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Summary:	From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man , a scintillating novel of love, loss, and literary rivalry set in rapidly changing Brooklyn.<br> <br> The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartment 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 fervent freegan, and Hector, now in the clutches of a cultish Christian community. But Luz has found (and destroyed) some poems of Harry's that ignite her long-simmering suspicions of infidelity, and he's been summarily kicked out. He now has to reckon with the consequence of his literary, marital, financial, and parental failures (and perhaps others) and find his way forward--and back into Luz's good graces.<br> <br> Harry Quirk is, in short, a loser, living small and low in the water. But touched by Kate Christensen'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 men--and she turns them into literary art of the highest order.
Physical Description:	311 p ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	9780385530910 0385530919 9780307473356 030747335X 9780385530927 0385530927